AN INTRODUCTION ΤΟ SPELLING AND READING ENGLISH. REING THE MOST PLAIN AND EASY METHOD OF Teaching young Children to read: CONTAINING, I. Tables of MONOSYLLABLES, adapted to the capacity of the youngest II. Tables of DISSYLLABLES, after the same manner. TO WHICH ARE ADDED, ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY LESSONS, In Words of one, two, and three Syllables, arranged in proper A SHORT CATECHETICAL DISCOURSE. RULES FOR SPELLING, POINTING, &c. Recommended by many School-masters, under their hands, as the most AND A Treatise on the Arts of Writing and Arithmetic ALSO, FAMILIAR FABLES, ADORNED WITH APPROPRIATE ENGRAVINGS BY WILLIAM MARKHAM, CARLISLE: GEORGE COWARD, 75, SCOTCH STREET. MDCCCLXVI, THE PREFACE. THE HE seventy-nine former impressions being sold off, and my endeavour to serve the public being kindly received, I have sent into the world this new edition. My design in the first publication of this book was to render this principal part of education as easy as possible, both to the teacher and learner; not by laying down rules and theorems, (which little children cannot understand,) but by leading the pupil on gradually, from the knowledge of letters to syllables and words, in easy tables and short lessons adapted to a child's capacity and how well this design has succeeded I submit to the judgment of the many judicious Schoolmasters and School-mistresses who proceed by this method. I hereby return my hearty thanks to the many reverend and worthy gentlemen concerned in promoting the Charity Schools in Great Britain, for their kind recommendations of this book to their several schools; and also to the many Masters and Mistresses, in town and country, who encourage the use of it; and my endeavour shall be, in every edition to be published for the time to come, to render it as correct as possibie. I will now give those who have not seen or considered this Piece, an account of the method of teaching to read, hereby proposed: the tables |