Adminiculum puerile: or, An help for school-boys. : Containing I. Fundamental exercises for young beginners. II. English examples fitted to the syntax-rules of the Lord Bishop of Cork's grammar, with some annotations. III. Some necessary cautions to prevent mistakes which boys are generally guilty of in making Latin. ; IV. English for Latin verses. V. Some examples of themes in English, with larger discourses on subjects. VI. Three indexes: the first containing all the words in the fundamental exercises: The second, those under the syntax-rules and cautions: and the third, those in the verses, with Latin for them. : To which is subjoined, 1st, the syntax rules. 2d, a prosody. and 3d, all the short examples of Clark's introduction. : [Two lines in Latin from Horace].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davys, Peter, -1698, author.

Contributor:

College, Academy, and Charitable Schools of Philadelphia.

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 8111.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Latin language--Grammar.

Latin language.

Genre:

Textbooks.

Grammars.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (12 unnumbered pages, 119 pages, 47 unnumbered pages, 17 pages, 1 unnumbered page)

Place of Publication:

[Philadelphia] : Dublin printed: Philadelphia re-printed by W. Dunlap, for the use of the College and Academy there., 1758.

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text file

Notes:

Dedication to Narcissus, Lord Archbishop of Dublin, signed: P. Davys.

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