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The School of good manners : Containing, I. Sundry mixt precepts. II. Rules for childrens behaviour, at the meeting-house, at home, at the table, in company, in discourse, at school, abroad; with an admonition to children. III. Good advice for the ordering of the lives, with a baptismal covenant. IV. Some wholesome cautions. V. A short plain & scriptural catechism. VI. Eleven short exhortations. VII. The Ten commandments in verse, with a compendious body of divinity, an alphabet of useful copies, & Cyprian's twelve absurdities. VIII. Some prayers for children; with graces before and after meat.

Other author/creatorGarretson, J. (John)
Other author/creatorMoody, Eleazer, -1720, compiler.
Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoNew-London [Conn.] : Printed & sold by T. Green. Also sold by B. Eliot at Boston, 1715.
Description2 unnumbered pages, 62 pages ; 12 cm (16mo)
Supplemental Content Evans Digital Edition
Subject(s)
Series Early American imprints. First series ; no. 1778. ^A478749
General noteCompiled by Eleazer Moody, but substantially derived from an English work of the same title written by John Garretson. Cf. Welch.
References Evans 1778
References Trumbull, J.H. Connecticut, 1334
References Johnson, H.A. New London, 59
References Welch, d'A.A. Amer. children's books, 871.1
Other formsMicroform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
Reproduction noteElectronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 1778).
Genre/formAlphabet books 1715.
Genre/formJuvenile literature 1715.
Genre/formCatechisms.
Genre/formPrayers.

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