A New GUIDE TO THE English Tongue: common In Five PARTS. CONTAINING, digis II. A large and useful Table of I. Words, both common and proper, III. A short, but comprehenfive on several Occafione. The Whole, being recommended by feveral Clergymen and eminent Schoolmasters, as the most useful Performance for the Instruction of Youth, is designed for the Ufe of SCHOOLS in Great Britain, Ireland, and in the several English Colonies and Plantations abroad. The Fifty-fourth Edition. By THOMAS DILWORTH, AUTHOR of the SCHOOLMASTERS ASSISTANT; YOUNG BOOK-KEEPER'S ASSISTANT, &c. &c. LONDON: Printed and Sold by RICHARD and HENRY CAUSTON (Successors to the late Mr. HENRY KENT) at the Printing Office, No. 21, i Finch-Lane, near the Royal Exchange. M, DCC, XC. 7 W HEREAS feveras Spuriou Earsons (and those very bad ones) of the New Gude to the English Tongue, have appeared in the World, which has tended to the Detriment of the fair Trader, and especially of us Richard and Henry Couston, the only Proprietors of the true and genuine New Guire to the Engalo Tongue: This is therefore, to intorm all Perfons, who ar defirous of uing the faid true and genuine New Guide to the English Tongue, that it may very eafily be known, by the Name of Richard and Henry (aufton being inferted at the Bottom of the Title Page, whereas the spurious Editions are deactive in that Particular; and fome of them in the Omlion Of Fthe Recommendatory Names, and other Advertisements of the Author. N B. This Edition is printed on new Types; and the Head-pieces of the Fables are also entirely new. Just Published (Price 1s. 6d.) The SCHOOLMASTERS ASSISTANT: BEINGA Compendium of ARITHMETIC, BOTH Pradical and Theoretical. In Five PARTS. CONTAINING, I. Arithmetic in Whole Numbers, wherein all the common Rules, having each of them a fufficient Number of Questions, with their Answers, &c. II. Vulgar Fractions, wherein several Things, not commonly met with, are there distinctly treated of, and laid down in the most plain and easy Manner. III. Decimals, in which, among other Things, are confidered the Extraction of Roots, &c. IV. A large Conection of Questions, V. Duodecimals, commonly called The Who'e being delivered in the most familiar Way of Question and Anfover, isrecommended by several eminent Mathematicians, Accomptants and Schoolmasters, as neceflary to be used in chouls. The Twenty Fourth Er! Ivan. By THOMAS DILWORTH, Author of this New Guide to the English Tongue, &c. inted and Sold by RICHARD & HENRY CAUSTON, the Printing Office, No. 21, in Finch-Lant, near the hanae. Reverend and Worthy Promoters of the feverat Charity-Schools in Great-Britain and Ireland. GENTLEMEN, T HE tender Regard, which You have always shew'd, and still continue, for the Salvation of Souls, is eminently discovered in Your Care for the Education of Children. To You it is, that the poorer Sort of People owe their Obedience, and indeed these Kingdoms their Thankfulness, for Your endeavouring to refcue so many poor Creatures from the Slavery of Sin and Satan. Thus, GENTLEMEN, it is Your Happiness, that You are, at the fame time, promoting the Glory of GOD, by Your careful Undertaking to fave these little Ones from utter Destruction. Your Preference of the Pretestant Religion is herein gloriously discovered by those Principles of that best conftituted Church, as profoffed in the Church of England, which You cause to be taught, and ingrafted in the tender Age of Your Pupils. Therefore, Go on, WORTHY SIRS, with Your wonted Zeal for the Glory of GOD, and the Public Good of these Nations, united in the true Faith of CHRIST: and that Your pious Endeavours may always obtain their defired Success, and Yourselves that Reward which is promised to those, who convert a Sinner from the Evil of his Way, is the earneft and hearty Prayer of, GENTLEMEN, Wapping-School, Your most obedient and bumble Senvant, June 14, 1740, THO. DILWORTH |