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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.
An Interrogation Point, [?] is placed after the asking a Question. As, Why do the Heathen rage? And the people imagine a vain thing? In reading, make near as long a pause here, as at a Period.
A Parenthesis () is put to enclose any new clause or matter that is added before a man hath fully expressed his Mind, the sense being good, if that which is added were left out. As where Paul says, For I know in me, (that is, in my flesh) dwelleth no good.
A Parenthesis () is put to inclose any new clause or matter that is added before a man hath fully expressed his Mind, the sence being good, if that which is added were left out. As where Paul says, For I know in me, (that is, in my flesh) dwelleth no good.
An Admiration [!] is put after words that express something strange, or to be wondered at, as, O the depth of the Riches, both of the Wisdom and Knowledge of God!
The Apostrophe ['] is a point made▪ as you see) like a Comma, & is set over the place where a Vowel is left out, which you often meet with in Verse, to shorten the feet, or to make it run smooth. As penned, heavens, sinned, th'other, 'twas, 'tis, &c.