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The friendly instructor: Or, A companion for young ladies and young gentlemen. : In which their duty to God, and their parents, their carriage to superiors and inferiors, and several thoer very useful and instructive lessons are recommended, in plain and familiar dialogues. / By a lady.
Shaw-Shoemaker Digital Edition 17580. Connect to full text. Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Harrison, Elizabeth, active 1724-1756.
- Series:
- Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 17580.
- Standardized Title:
- Friendly instructor
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Children's stories.
- Conduct of life--Juvenile fiction.
- Conduct of life.
- Religious education of children.
- Parent and child--Juvenile fiction.
- Parent and child.
- Children and death--Juvenile fiction.
- Children and death.
- Social classes--Juvenile fiction.
- Social classes.
- Genre:
- Juvenile literature -- 1809.
- Dialogues.
- Poems -- 1809.
- Publishers' advertisements -- Massachusetts -- Boston.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- vi pages, 1 unnumbered page, 8-65 pages, 7 unnumbered pages ; 15 cm
- Other Title:
- Familiar dialogues.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston: : Printed and sold by Lincoln & Edmands, no. 53, Cornhilll. Who keep for sale, a great variety of cheap religious tracts. The charitable, resident in any part of the Union, who purchase for distribution, will find their orders answered promptly, and on the most liberal terms., 1809.
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- text file
- Notes:
- "I have perused these dialogues with so much pleasure ... they were written by a lady with whose valuable character I have been acquainted many years; and who has been long employed in the education of children ..."--The recommendatory preface, p. [iii], signed: P. Doddridge. Northampton, June 8, 1741.
- Tentatively attributed to English religious writer Elizabeth Harrison.
- Caption title: Familiar dialogues.
- "Divine song. The advantages of early religion."--poem by Isaac Watts, p. [66].
- "Cheap religious tracts, for sale by Lincoln & Edmands ..."--advertisement, p. [67-72].
- "Price, 12 cts. single--1,20 cts. doz.--9 dols. a hundred."--at foot of title page.
- Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2004-2007] Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 17580).
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- Restricted for use by site license.
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