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 19470

Contributor:

College, Academy, and Charitable Schools of Philadelphia

Language:

English

Physical Description:

[12],119,[47],17,[1]p. ; 12°.

Place of Publication:

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

Notes:

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

Local Notes:

HSP in LCP.

Cited in:

Evans 8111; Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania, 4663