Instructions for right-spelling, and plain directions for reading and writing true English with several delightful things very useful and necessary, both for young and old, to read and learn / by G. Fox.

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Title
Instructions for right-spelling, and plain directions for reading and writing true English with several delightful things very useful and necessary, both for young and old, to read and learn / by G. Fox.
Author
Fox, George, 1624-1691.
Publication
London :: Printed for Benjamin Clark ...,
1683.
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English language -- Orthography and spelling -- Early works to 1800.
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"Instructions for right-spelling, and plain directions for reading and writing true English with several delightful things very useful and necessary, both for young and old, to read and learn / by G. Fox." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A40205.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 15, 2024.

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The Signification of the seven Arts.

THE word Grammar comes of a Word that fignifies to write.

Rhetorick, of a Word that signifies, to speak fluently.

Logick, of a Word that signifies, to speak and reason.

Astronomy signifies, the Law or Distribu∣tion of the Stars.

Geometry signifies, measuring of the Earth.

Musick signifies, the Muses Art, or Au∣thors of Songs, or Poetry.

Arithmetick comes of a Word that sig∣nifies, Number.

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