A battle-door for teachers & professors to learn singular & plural ; you to many, and thou to one: singular one, thou ; plural many, you. Wherein is shewed ... how several nations and people have made a distinction between singular and plural. And first, in the former part of this book, called the English battle-door, may be seen how several people have spoken singular and plural ; ... Also, in this book is set forth examples of the singular and plural about thou, and you, in several languages, divided into distinct battle-doors, or formes, or examples ; ... and how emperors and others have used the singular word to one ; and how the word you came first from the Pope. Likewise some examples, in the Polonian, Lithuanian, Irish and East-Indian, together with ... Sweedish, Turkish ... tongues. In the latter part of this book are contained severall bad unsavory words, gathered forth of certain school-books, which have been taught boyes in England ... George. Fox. John Stubs. Benjamin Furley.
1660
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A battle-door for teachers & professors to learn singular & plural ; you to many, and thou to one: singular one, thou ; plural many, you. Wherein is shewed ... how several nations and people have made a distinction between singular and plural. And first, in the former part of this book, called the English battle-door, may be seen how several people have spoken singular and plural ; ... Also, in this book is set forth examples of the singular and plural about thou, and you, in several languages, divided into distinct battle-doors, or formes, or examples ; ... and how emperors and others have used the singular word to one ; and how the word you came first from the Pope. Likewise some examples, in the Polonian, Lithuanian, Irish and East-Indian, together with ... Sweedish, Turkish ... tongues. In the latter part of this book are contained severall bad unsavory words, gathered forth of certain school-books, which have been taught boyes in England ... George. Fox. John Stubs. Benjamin Furley.
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London : Printed for Robert Wilson, 1660.
Description
[4], 96, 91-94, 12, 8, 12, 19, [1], 18, pages 61, pages 17, 19, [5], 28 pages ; 28 cm
Associated name
Fox, George, 1624-1691, author.
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Cited/described in
Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (2nd ed.), 1996), F1751
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.
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FAST ACC 271695 (quarto)
Folger accession
271695