Files
Download
Download Full Text (3.3 MB)
Content Warning
The Philander Chase letters were written in the 18th and 19th century and therefore may contain language that we understand today as harmful or offensive. You may encounter paternalist descriptions of Native Americans, racial slurs, or sexism. For more information, see our policy page.
Description
A recommendation for The New Instructor by Asa Rhoads.
Date
12-6-1804
Keywords
The New Instructor; Asa Rhoads; Rhoads; Education
Recommended Citation
Chase, Philander, "The New Instructor Being the Second Part of the American Spelling Book" (1804). Philander Chase Letters. 21.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/chase_letters/21
Rights Statement
Transcript
The New Instructor
being the
Second part
Of the
American Spelling Book
([?] from various Recommendations on first [?])
The accurate instruction of youth in the elementary principles of our language, and the great importance of early installing into their minds morality and piety, form the basis of my motive in recommending to parents and school teachers, a book entittled “The New Instructor” - complied by Asa Rhodes. It is a work of much merit, particularly on account of the great number and variety of words, properly accented and defined, and the judicious selection of pieces for reading, calculated to purify the heart and to form the taste and instruct as well as amuse the mind, the afore mentioned book needs but to read to be approved by all lovers of learning, morality, and piety.
Philander Chase, Preacher of Christ Church Poughkeepsie NY
In noles from refined author page.
“Objections are made by parents and guardians against purchasing dictionaries for their children, arising from their price-and from containing some indelicate expressions”
I feel like adding exclamation marks. This was [?] from my shorthand notes taken in Kisco.