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New instructions to the guardian : shewing that the last remedy to prevent the ruin, advance the interest, and recover the honour of this nation is, I. A more serious and strict education of the nobility and gentry. II. To breed up all their younger sons to some calling and employment. III. More of them to holy orders : with a method of institution from three years of age, to twenty one.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection LB1115 .P35 1694
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Penton, Stephen, 1639-1706.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Education.
- Education--Early works to 1800.
- Christian education of children.
- Physical Description:
- 20 unnumbered pages, 143 pages, 1 unnumbered page (first and last pages blank) ; 16 cm (12mo)
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed for Walter Kettilby, at the Bishop's-Head in St. Paul's Churchyard, 1694.
- Notes:
- "Epistle dedicatory" is signed: Stephen Penton.
- "... sold by Walter Kettilby, and Sam. Smith in St. Paul's Churchyard. and Henry Clements in Oxford." -- p. [2] of preliminaries.
- Licence (p. [2] of preliminaries) faces t.p.
- Divisional titles for various sections on p. [41] and [121].
- Local Notes:
- Imperfect: p. [1]-[2] at beginning wanting.
- Cited in:
- Wing P1440.
- OCLC:
- 185063316
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