NEW
PRECEPTOR,

OR, YOUNG

LADY's & GENTLEMAN's

TRUE

INSTRUCTOR in the RUDIMENTS

OF THE

English Tongue.

CONTAINING RULES for Pronunciation, with LESSONS from One to Two and more Syllables to elucidate them ; methodically digested, and adorned with Emblematical Cuts, to gain the attention of the Young of both Sexes.

By R. KAY, WRITING-MASTER, AND TEACHER OF ENGLISH GRAMMAR,

NEWCASTLE.

NEWCASTLE: PRINTED BY AND FOR M. ANGUS & Son, Side ; AND FOR W.

GROAT-MARKET.

CHARNLEY,

AV

MARVARD COLLEGE

10 1930 LIBRARY

Gift of the Guadiante. Seloof of Educators

E whose Names are underwritten

(Members of the Schoolmasters Association, in Newcastle upon Tyne,) having perused Mr Kay's new Preceptor, or Instructor in the Rudiments of the English Tongue, do most willingly join in testifying our Approbation of the general Plan and Execution of the Work, and in beartily recommending it to the Use of Parents and Teachers, as a valuable Help to the Initiation of their Pupils in the essential Principles of their native Language.

Rev. William Turner.
Rev. E. Prozit.
William Tinwell.
George Richardson.
William Murray.
Peter Vilkinson.
Adam Crawford.
Hugh Johnson.
Ralph Dees.
William Clarke.
Joseph Mordue.
John Kerr.
John Bruce.
Edward Bruce.

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