A new primmer or Methodical directions to attain the true spelling, reading & writing of English. Whereunto are added, some things necessary & useful both for the youth of this province, and likewise for those, who from foreign countries and nations come to settle amongst us. / By F.D.P. ; [Six lines of quotations]

Title

A new primmer or Methodical directions to attain the true spelling, reading & writing of English. Whereunto are added, some things necessary & useful both for the youth of this province, and likewise for those, who from foreign countries and nations come to settle amongst us. / By F.D.P. ; [Six lines of quotations]

Author

Pastorius, Francis Daniel, 1651-1719.

Publication

[New York] :: Printed by William Bradford in New-York, and sold by the author in Pennsilvania.,

[1698]

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Subject terms

Youth -- Conduct of life.

English language -- Orthography and spelling.

Primers (Instructional books) -- 1698.

Juvenile literature -- 1698.

Link to this Item

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Cite this Item

"A new primmer or Methodical directions to attain the true spelling, reading & writing of English. Whereunto are added, some things necessary & useful both for the youth of this province, and likewise for those, who from foreign countries and nations come to settle amongst us. / By F.D.P. ; [Six lines of quotations]." In the digital collection Evans Early American Imprint Collection. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/N00705.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 5, 2024. content_copy

Contents

• title page
• introduction
  • part - alphabets
    • Roman small & capital Letters.
    • Italick small and Capitals.
    • Old English small and Capitals.
  • part - letters and letter-combinations
    • section
  • part - words
    • Words of One Syllable.
    • Words of Two Syllables.
    • Words of Three Syllables.
    • Words of Four Syllables.
    • Words of Five Syllables.
    • Words of Six Syllables.
    • Words of Seven Syllables.
  • Examples for the different Pronunciation of the Vowels, Consonants, Diphthongs and Double Letters.
    • section
    • section
    • section
• body
  • I. A few OBSERVATIONS for the very Novices, Readers & Writers.
  • II. The most Common ABBREVIATIONS.
  • III. POINTS of DISTINCTION To be observed in Reading and Writing, for keping the Sense.
  • IV. The Names and Order of the BOOKS in the , wich (being a Greek word) ook▪ and is indeed the best of Books ever were Written or Printed by Mans .
  • V. General and Particular DUTIES of True CHRISTIANS
  • VI.
  • VII. An Alphabetical Collection of Words, which almost are the same in Sound, yet differ in Sense and Orthography.
  • VIII. An Explanation of some difficult Words.
  • IX. Some PROPER NAMES
    • of the holy ▪ Alphabetically place, with their English.
      • section - A
      • B
      • C
      • D
      • E
      • G
      • H
      • I
      • K
      • L
      • M
      • N
      • O
      • P
      • section - R
      • S
      • T
      • U
      • Z
    • subpart
  • X. Serviceable Remarks concerning Numbers, Time, Weights, Measures & Money.
    • The parts or parcels of a Number;
    • To know what ones Daily Expences to a whole Year.
    • How to SET DOWN the value of any Sum.
    • A Table of Multiplication.
    • Measures, Weights and Coins mentioned in the holy Scripture, reduced into English VALUATION.
    • In MEASURES of CAPACITY, both Dry and Liquids,
      • In Wine, Oil and Honey Measure,
      • In Cloth Measure,
      • In Long-Measure.
    • A Table of TIME.
• An additional Hymn of the Beloved of my Soul.