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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 › Contractions in Writing fit to be observed by Youth and others.
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.
Contractions in Writing fit to be observed by Youth and others.
IN our English writing there are many Abbreviations we make use of, which are borrowed from the Latin, as e. g. ex•moli gratia) for example; & over our Accounts […] commonly write l. s. d. q. ⟨p. 133⟩which is (libri, s•liai, denarii, quadrants) Pounds, Shillings, Pence, Farthings. So also we write, viz. (videlicet) to wit, or that is to say; sc. (scilicit) that is to say; i. e. (id est) that is; v. (vide) see; N. B. (not• bena) note well, Per Ann. (per annum) by the year; per Cent. by the Hundred.
IN our English writing there are many Abreviations we make use of, which are borrowed from the Latine, as e. g. ex•moli gratia) for example; & over our Accounts 〈…〉 commonly write l. s. d. q. ⟨p. 133⟩which is (libri, s•liai, denarii, quadrantes) Pounds, Shillings, Pence, Farthings. So also we write, viz. (videlicet) to wit, or that is to say; sc. (scilicit) that is to say; i. e. (id est) that is; v. (vide) see; N. B. (not• bena) note well, Per Ann. (per annum) by the year; per Cent. by the Hundred.