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The following BOOKS, all by Mr. HOLMES, are fold by C. HITCH, and L. HAWES, at the Red Lion in Pater-nofterLONDON.

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NEW GRAMMAR of the LATIN TONGUE ; or, A Rational, Short, Comprehenfive, and Plain Method of communicating that Language to Tender Capacities. Freed from the many Obfcurities, Defects, Superfluities, and Errors, which render the Common Grammar an insufferable Impediment to the Progrefs of Education. The fixth Edition, corrected, 1754. Price 1 s. 6 d.

II. THE GREEK GRAMMAR; Or, a fhort, plain, critical, and comprehenfive Method of teaching and learning the GREEK TONGUE: Wherein, for the greater Ease of Masters, and the more expeditious Improvement of Scholars, the common Difficulties in the Declenfions, Conjugations, Contrac tions, Accents, Dialects, &c. are render'd clear and easy, and the ufual Obfcurities in Syntaxis and Greek Poetry entirely remov'd. The fourth Edition, corrected, 1752. Price 2 s. 6 d.

III. THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND: Being a Compenpendium adapted to the Capacities and Memories of Youth at School; and likewife ufeful for all others who have weak Memories, and would willingly retain what they read of English Hiftory. Carefully and impartially extracted from, and fupported by the Authority of, the beft Hiftorians both ancient and modern. To which is added, HISTORIE ANGLICANE BREVIARIUM,Latine confcriptum, ac collectum ex iis quæ fcriptis tradiderunt Hiftorici celeberrimi. The Latin Part being propofed as a Claffick to be read in Grammar Schools. Price 2 s. 6 d.

IV. THE ART OF RHETORICK made eafy; or, The Elements of Oratory briefly stated, and fitted for the Practice of Youth at Grammar Schools. In two Books. The First comprehending the Principles of that excellent Art, conformable to and fupported by the Authority of Cicero and others the most accurate Orators and Rhetoricians, both Ancient and Modern. The Second containing the Subftance of LONGINUS's celebrated Treatife on the Sublime. With Examples from Mr. Thomson's Seafons, &c. The second Edition. Price 3 s. bound in Sheep, and 2 s. 6 d. ftitch'd

V. RHETORICK EPITOMIZ'D; or The Principles of that whole Art briefly exemplified on a Copper-Plate, engrav'd by Mr. Pine. Price 9 d.

VI. THE KEY; or, Queftions to the Latin and Greek Grammars in the Examination of Learners; with the practical Method of Parfing and Scanning in both Languages. Price 1 s. 6 d.

VII. THE GRAMMARIAN'S ARITHMETIC; or, A Compendious Treatife of the Art of Cyphering, in all its Branches, both Vulgar and Decimal. Adapted to the Capacities of Youth in general, and in particular to the little fpare Time of fuch young Gentlemen as in Grammar Schools are defigned for the University, or liberal Profeffions. The Rules to be repeated,

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and Sums to be perform'd, for the Eafe of both Master and Scholar, being printed, and by a peculiar Method, render'd much plainer to be understood, and more expeditiously taught and learn'd, than in the common Way. In Four Parts. Part the Firft. Price 1. ftitch'd.

VIII. THE FRENCH GRAMMAR, fitted for the speedy attaining that polite Language in Latin Schools; being the cleareft, molt methodical, fporteft, and yet, confidering its Concifenefs, more comprehenfive of every Thing neceffary, except a Dictionary, than any fingle French Grammar extant. Particular Regard being had to make the Pronunciation easily attained, and Practical Lectures added to exercise the Learner. Prices. 6 d.

IX. THE GRAMMARIAN's GEOGRAPHY and ASTRONOMY, Ancient and Modern, exemplified in the Ufe of the GLOBES, Terraqueous and Cæleftial. In which all the Terms of Art, Parts of the Globes, and Problems thereon to be per-, formed, with the Ufe of Maps, are fo plainly and methodically confider'd and treated of, as fcarce ever to be forgot. In Two Parts. Particularly adapted to the Capacities of young Gentlemen ftudying the Clafficks; as well as ufeful and entertaining to

all others.

THE GEOGRAPHICAL PART comprehending the anci ent and modern Names, Situation, Length, and Breadth of most Places in the World, in View of the Latin and Greek Clafficks, Homer, Virgil, Herodotus, Juftin, Xenophon, Cafar, Plutarch, Livy, Thucidydes, Salluft, Dionyfius Periegetes, Paufanias, Jofephus, Eufebius, Silius Italicus, Lucan, Florus, Nepos, Eutropius, Quintus Curtius, and the rest: With the Adventures, Voyages, and Travels of Ulyffes, Eneas, Nebuchadnezzar, Cyrus, Alexander the Great, Hannibal, Julius Cæfar, our Saviour Jesus Chrift, St. Paul, the rest of the Apoftles, and many others in both facred and profane History.

THE ASTRONOMICAL PART containing a Defcription of the Larus, Order, Number, Names, Diftances, Magnitudes, Motions, and Appearances of the Heavenly Bodies; an Account of the feveral Systems of the Universe; the Hiftory of Aftronomy; and the Claffical Stories relating to the Planets, Signs, and Conftellations. The WHOLE illuftrated with neceflary Maps and Schemes neatly engraved on Copper. Price 5 s.

ADVERTISEMENT.

AT Holt in Norfolk, in a large commodious House, pleasantly fituated, Young Gentlemen are Boarded, and completely qualified for all manner of Bufinefs, in LATIN, GREEK, FRENCH, ARITHMETIC in all its Parts, Book keeping by Double Entry, called MERCHANTS ACCOUNTS, the USE of the GLOBES, and WRITING in all the Hands ufed in Great-Britain.

By the Author and proper Affiftance.

E.K

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