. First century of national existence; the United States as they were and j;erbreaij;And that the child may learn tlie better,As he can name, he eats the letter. To many, even a picture of the old-fashioned Horn-book—the Primer of onr ancestors,consisting of a single leaf pasted on a board, and covered in some instances with thin. nOKN-BOOK OF THE ElUUTEBNTH CEXTURT. horn to preserve it from being torn or soiled—will be new. The followingdescription and the accompanying cut we copy from Barnards American Journal ofEducitiort. for March, 1860:^ Shcnstone, who was taught to r
. First century of national existence; the United States as they were and j;erbreaij;And that the child may learn tlie better,As he can name, he eats the letter. To many, even a picture of the old-fashioned Horn-book—the Primer of onr ancestors,consisting of a single leaf pasted on a board, and covered in some instances with thin. nOKN-BOOK OF THE ElUUTEBNTH CEXTURT. horn to preserve it from being torn or soiled—will be new. The followingdescription and the accompanying cut we copy from Barnards American Journal ofEducitiort. for March, 1860:^ Shcnstone, who was taught to read at a dame school near Halesowen, in Shropshire, in 414 EDUCATION AND EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS. his dcliulitfully quaint poem of the Schoolmistress, commemorating his venerable precep-tress, thus records the use of the Horn-book :— Lo I now witli state slie utters lier command ;Kftsoons tlie urcliins to their tasks repair;Tlieir books of stature small tliey take iu hand,Wliich with pellucid liorn secured areTo save from finger wet the letters fair. Cowper thus describes the Ilorn-book of his time :— Neatly secured from being soiled or tornBeneath a pane of thin translucent horn, ~ ~ A book (to please us at a tender ageTis called a book, though but a single page).Presents the prayer the Saviour deigned to teach,Which chil
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