Hezekiah Woodward, A Light to Grammar (1641)
Date
1641
Author
Book title
A Light to Grammar, And All other Arts and Sciences. Or, The Rule Of Practise Proceeding by the Clue of Nature, and Conduct of right Reason, so opening the doore thereunto
Publication place
London
Printer
M. F.
Publisher
John Bartlet
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
grammar
Summary
A treatise without definitions but see Chapter V ("When to begin with the Childe in the learning of languages ... how fundamentall the Mother tongue is") and Chapter VIII ("Of the Figures and Tropes").
Word-group
type: undifferentiated
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: Ironia. His Mother called him good boy, when by a lawfull kind of mockery, she meant the contrary, that he was a very wag, and the Child knows it very well. (p. 66)
sample: Ironia. His Mother called him good boy, when by a lawfull kind of mockery, she meant the contrary, that he was a very wag, and the Child knows it very well. (p. 66)
Alston
XV.972
Wing
W3497
Catalog
Kennedy 5716
