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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.
Part 3 › Common Stops, to be observed in Writing and Reading.
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.
Common Stops, to be observed in Writing and Reading.
True Pointing is necessary in Writing, to prevent Confusion, and therefore I have set down the most usual Stops or Points, as followeth:
TRue Pointing is necessary in Writing, to prevent Confusion, and therefore I have set down the most usual Stops or Points, as followeth:
A Comma [,] is a Note of sho•• stay or stop in reading.
A Colon [:] is a Note of perfect sense, but not of a perfect sentence, because there is more of it behind▪ As for Example, Psal. 22.28. For the Kingdom is the Lords: And he is Governor among t•• Nations. This requires a longer stop or pause than a Comma.