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1688. Guy Miège: The English Grammar. [34] 1693. Joseph Aickin: The English grammar. [34] 1700. A. Lane: A Key to the Art of Letters. [34] 1745. Ann Fisher A New Grammar. [35] 1761. Joseph Priestley: The Rudiments of English Grammar:Adapted to the Use of Schools. 1762. Robert Lowth: A short introduction to English grammar: with critical notes ...
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Devis's grammar was recommended by her peers as a general introduction to Robert Lowth’s Short Introduction to English Grammar (1762). [ 4 ] Devis taught at several schools in fashionable areas of London, and her pupils include Maria Edgeworth , Frances Burney and her sister Susannah, Hester Thrale and later her daughter Cecilia Piozzi.
Hoadly was born 30 September 1643 at Guildford, New England, whither his parents had fled at the outbreak of the great rebellion.In 1655 his parents returned to Great Britain and settled in Edinburgh, where Samuel was educated, matriculating in 1659 in the university.
The son of William and Isabella Wilson, he was born at Priest Hutton, in the parish of Warton, near Lancaster, on 3 Dec. 1747, and educated at Archbishop Hutton's Grammar School, in Warton, and Sedbergh Grammar School. At Sedbergh he was an assistant under Dr. Wynne Bateman from 1768 to 1771.
The Complete Farmer: Or, a General Dictionary of Husbandry is an 18th-century English-language encyclopaedia, holding a summary of information on agriculture and in all its branches. It was written by members of the Royal Society of Arts under the pseudonym a Society of Gentlemen, and first issued in 1756 [ 2 ] and published in weekly numbers ...
Edward Lye (1694–1767) was an 18th-century scholar of Old English and Germanic philology.. His Dictionarium Saxonico et Gothico-Latinum, published posthumously in 1772, was a milestone in the development of Old English lexicography, surpassed only by, and substantially contributing to Joseph Bosworth's Dictionary of the Anglo-Saxon language of 1838.
Ann Murry was born in 1750 in London, to Isaac and Elizabeth Murry, and christened at St. Mary-at-Hill. [2] Her father was a wine merchant who focused on supplying her with a solid education, which she cultivated with natural talent and curiosity. [3]