N29515:659
Instructions for children: or, The child's & youth's delight, teaching an easy way to…Instructions for children: or, The child's & youth's delight, teaching an easie way to…
Instructions for children: or, The child's & youth's delight, teaching an easy way to spell & read true English. : Containing the father's godly advice; directing parents in a right and spiritual manner to educate their children. : With a Christian catechism, wherein all the chief principles of true Christianity are clearly opened. : Together with many other things both pleasant and useful for the education of children. / Written by Benj. Keach.Instructions for children: or, The child's & youth's delight, teaching an easie way to spell & read true English. : Containing the father's godly advice; directing parents in a right and spiritual manner to educate their children. : With a Christian catechism, wherein all the chief principles of true Christianity are clearly opened. : Together with many other things both pleasant and useful for the education of children. / Written by Benj. Keach.
New York: printed by Will. Bradford, 1695
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Of Subtraction.
Of Substraction.
This Rule teacheth to subtract a lesser Sum from a greater, and then to know what remains; as suppose you have received of your Master 120 l. and have disbursed 75 l. & would know what is remaining in your hands: To do this you must first set down the 120 l. and under that the 75 l. and say, 5 from 0 I cannot, but 5 from 10, and there remains 5: Then say, 1 which I borrowed & 7 is 8, 8 from 12, and there remains 4, which set down; & thereby it will appear you have remaining in your hands 45 l.
THis Rule teacheth to substract a lesser Sum from a greater, and then to know what remains; as suppose you have received of your Master 120 l. and have disbursed 75 l. & would know what is remaining in your hands: To do this you must first set down the 120 l. and under that the 75 l. and say, 5 from 0 I cannot, but 5 from 10, and there remains 5: Then say, 1 which I borrowed & 7 is 8, 8 from 12, and there remains 4, which set down; & thereby it will appear you have remaining in your hands 45 l.