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Excerpt from Manual of the Lancasterian System: Of Teaching, Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, and Needle-Work, as Practised in the Schools of the Free-Society, of New York Society, having met the approbation of the public, and the general arrangement, and a large portion of the detail of that work, being suited to the N ew-york Schools, the Trustees have adopted it as the basis of the present publication. Some parts of the English Manual are inapplicable in this country, and others are not now practised in that, more recent improvements having been adopted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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