The art of rhetorick concisely and compleatly handled exemplified out of holy writ, and with a compendious and perspicuous comment, fitted to the capacities of such as have had a smatch of learning, or are otherwise ingenious. By J.B. master of the free-school of Kinfare in Staffordshire.

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The art of rhetorick concisely and compleatly handled exemplified out of holy writ, and with a compendious and perspicuous comment, fitted to the capacities of such as have had a smatch of learning, or are otherwise ingenious. By J.B. master of the free-school of Kinfare in Staffordshire.
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Barton, John, master of the free school of Kinfare.
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[London] :: Printed for Nicolas Alsop, and are to be sold at the Angel in Popes-head-alley,
1634.
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Rhetoric -- Early works to 1800.
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"The art of rhetorick concisely and compleatly handled exemplified out of holy writ, and with a compendious and perspicuous comment, fitted to the capacities of such as have had a smatch of learning, or are otherwise ingenious. By J.B. master of the free-school of Kinfare in Staffordshire." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A05257.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 14, 2025.

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Introduction to Learning; OR, A SURE GUIDE To the ENGLISH Pronunciation and Orthography: In plain PROSE for the Ease, and familiar VERSE for the Pleasure, as well as Profit, of the Learner.

Containing much more on those Subjects than any other Book, in a Method never before attempted; and by which All who can Read may learn, without a Teacher, to Speak and Wite English as Correctly as they that have had a Liberal Education.

Contriv'd so as to amuse and exercise the Ingenious, improve and delight the Less-Knowing, clearly instruct the Ignorant, and allure Youth to a Love of Learning; tho' chiefly design'd for such GROWN Persons as have had but a lender Education, and are desirous of further Improvement.

To make it of General Use are added,

  • I. An alphabetical Collection and clear Distinction of above a Thousand Words nearly alike in Sound, but different in Snse and Spelling.
  • II. A large Table of Words, with their Meaning, made different in Signification by adding E Final
  • III. An Explanation of Abbreviations, Notes of Reference, and other Marks which often occur in Books and Writing.

By SAMUEL HAMMOND, Schoolmaster in NOTTINGHAM Author of the Complete and Comprehensive SPELLING-DICTIONARY.

NOTTINGHAM: Printed for the AUTHOR By SAMUEL CRESWELL.

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