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NO. I.

THE

JUVENILE SPELLING-BOOK:

BEING

AN EASY INTRODUCTION

TO THE

ENGLISH LANGUAGE:

CONTAINING

EASY AND FAMILIAR LESSONS IN SPELLING,
WITH APPROPRIATE READING LESSONS,

CALCULATED

To advance the learner by easy gradations, and to teach the orthography
of Johnson, anal-itre pronunciation of Walker

BY A. PICKET.

AUTHOR OF THE AMERICAN SCHOOL CLASS-BOOKS, VIZ.
THE JUVENILE EXPOSITOR, JUVENILE MENTOR, &c. &e.

10401

Nothing can enter into the affections which stumbles at the threshold.'... Blair.

IMPROVED AND STEREOTYPED.

STEREOTYPED BY E. AND J. WHITE, NEW-YORK. FOR
DANIEL D. SMITH.

(Eleventh Stereotype Edition.)

For sale by him at the Franklin Juvenile Book and Stationary Store, M
190 Greenwich-street, and by the principal Booksellers in this City and the U.S.

1819.

(Prise 2 dolls. per doz. cena single.)

BOOKS designed to precede and accompany this Spelling-Book, viz.

THE JUVENILE, OR UNIVERSAL PRIMER.

THE PARENT'S MANUAL, OR CHILD'S FRIEND. THE JUVENILE MENTOR, OR SELECT READINGS.

THE JUVENILE EXPOSITOR.

PICKETS' GEOGRAPHICAL GRAMMAR, &c.

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BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the third way of February, in the thirty-eighth year e the Independence of the United States of America, ALBERT PICKET, of the said district, has deposited ia this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as Author and Proprietor, in the words following, to wit: "American School Class-Book, No. 1. The JUVENILE SPELLING-BOOK: being an easy introduction to the English language. Containing easy and familiar lessons in spelling, with appropriate reading lessons, calculated to advance the learner by easy gradations, and to teach the orthography of Johuson, and the pronunciation of Walker. By A. Picket, author of the "Juvenile Expositor," etc. "Nothing can enter into the affections, which stumbles at the threshold."...Blair. The revised and improved impression."

In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States, entitled "An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the anthers and proprietors of such copies, during the time therein + Act, supplementary to an Act, entitled an Act for copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the author therein mentioned, and extending the benefits theres historical and other urinta.""

ntioned." And also to an Act, entitled "As he encouragement of learning, by securing the nd proprietors of euch copies, during the times to the arts of designing, engraving and etching

THERON RUDD,

Clerk of the New-York District.

PREFACE.

AN elementary book, designed for general use, ought to contain as much useful matter as its limits will admit, and be unincumbered with abstract rules and metaphysical distinctions. It should contain, not only the standard orthography and the best usage of pronunciation, but also, plain and simple examples; conducting the infantile pupil,. step by step, from the letters of the alphabet, through syllables and words, to a series of amusing, familiar, and instructive lessons. In teaching children the first principles of reading, we should take ́nature for our guide. Every thing should be plain and easy. Whatever is adapted to the juvenile mind, it comprehends.

In the orthographical exercises, the lessons have been much simplified, and the pronunciation of all the words obviously pointed out, by analogical classifications, according to the specific quantity of the vowel sounds, whether long, short, middle, or broad. This plan is so simple and natural, that it requires but few directions, to enable the learner to become acquainted with the most correct orthography and harmonious pronunciation of the English language.

All uncommon or obsolete words have been scrupulously omitted. The lumbering up of elementary books with words which are seldom or never used by chaste or correct writers, and making children learn them in the first stages of their education, is productive of very little real benefit. It is sacrificing time it cogs the mind without improving the learner either in language or knowledge.

The grand object of a Spelling-book, is to teach children to spell and read as soon as possible; and not to perplex them with long catalogues of words which are seldom used.

It has been the endeavour of the author to adapt the plan of the work both in manner and matter to the capacities of youth, and to enable instructers to teach the elements of our language with ease to themselves and advantage to the learner. The reading lessons have been selected with great care. Not a word or sentiment has been intentionally inserted, which is not consonant with the purity of religion and morality, and calculated effectually to impress upon the tender mind, the love of virtue and goodness, and to form a taste for reading.. All extraneous matter has been rejected, and the pages filled with that which is deemed necessary and useful: comprising all that seems to be proper for an elementary school-book.

In a manual of this kind, to have omitted the principles on which our language is constructed, would have been extremely culpable. The Essentials of English Grammar have, therefore, been inserted. Io

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