...Nothing has been considered of this kind out of the ordinary road of Hornbook and Primer." — Locke. " To Master John, the English maid A Hornbook gives...learn the better, As he can name he eats the letter." — Prior. The next is from " The Schoolmistress," by Sheustone : — " Lo, now with state she utters...

...not greasy. I mention'd different ways of breeding : Begin we in our children's reading. To roaster John the English maid A horn-book gives of gingerbread ; And, that the child may leam the better, As he can name, he eats the letter. Proceeding thug with vast delight, He spells and...

...appears to have been commonly in use more than a century and a half since. Prior, in his Alma, notices To Master John the English maid, A horn-book gives,...learn the better, As he can name, he eats the letter.* The Catalogue of the British Museum Library describes a " Horn-book the Alphabet, Syllabarum, Lord's...

...appears to have been commonly in use more than a century and a half since. Prior, in his Alma, notices To Master John the English maid, A horn-book gives,...learn the better, As he can name, he eats the letter.* The Catalogue of the British Museum Library describes a " Horn-book the Alphabet, Syllabarum, Lord's...

...appears to have been commonly in use more than a century and a half since. Prior, in his Alma, notices To Master John the English maid, A horn-book gives,...learn the better, As he can name, he eats the letter.* The Catalogue of the British Museum Library describes a " Horn-book the Alphabet, Syllabarum, Lord's...

...gingerbread alphabet of our own time, which appears to have been common a century and a ialf since : '' To master John the English maid A Hornbook gives of...the better, As he can name, he eats the letter.'" ' Prior. In the original picture by Schidone, and formerly in the gallery of the Earl of Ashburnham,...

...appears to have been commonly in use more than a century and a half since. Prior, in his Alma, notices To Master John the English maid, A horn-book gives,...gingerbread ; And that the child may learn the better, Ad he can name, he eats the letter.* The Catalogue of the British Museum Library describes a " Horn-book...

...and a half since. Prior, in his Alma, notices To Master John tbe English maid, A horn-book give«, of gingerbread ; And that the child may learn the better, As he can name, he eats the letter.* The Catalogue of the British Museum Library describes a " Horn-book the Alphabet, Syllabarum, Lord's...

...sometimes served with a hornbook, far more palatable and easily digested than that described by Shenstone. To master John the English maid A hornbook gives of...learn the better, As he can name, he eats the letter. Locke was one of the earliest English writers on Education to recommend the atandonment of hornbooks,...

...sometimes served with a hornbook, far more palatable and easily digested than that described by Sheustone. To master John the English maid A hornbook gives of gingerbread ; And, that the child may lc:irn the better, As he can name, he eats the letter. Locke was one of the earliest English writers...