The New Guide to the English Tongue
was published England in the year 1740. The book was published by
Thomas Dilworth and was universally adopted throughout the schools in
New England by 1765.
The
New Guide to the English Tongue contained
spelling, reading and grammar lessons and was “adorned
with proper Scriptures.”
The first lesson of
the guide contained words have three letters or less.
No Man may put off the Law of God.
The Way of God is no ill Way.
My Joy is in God all the Day.
A bad Man is a Foe of God.
Thomas Dilworth
declared that he sought to rescue:
“Poor creatures from the Slavery of Sin and Satan by setting the word of God for a Lantern to our feet and a Light to our Paths.”
The “Schoolmaster
to America” - Noah Webster used only Thomas Dilworth's New Guide
to the English Tongue and the Holy Bible in his earliest school.
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