A Battle-Door For Teachers & Professors To Learn Singular & Plural; You to Many, and Thou to One : Singular One, Thou; Plural Many, You. Wherein is shewed forth by Grammar, or Scripture Examples, how several Nations and People have made a distinction between Singular and Plural. And first, in the former part of this Book, Called The English Battle-Door, may be seen how several People have spoken Singular and Plural; As the Apharsathkites, the Tarpelites, the Apharsites, the Arche- vites, the Babylonians, the Susanchites, the Dehavites, the Elamites, the Temanites, the Naomites, the Shuites, the Buzites, the Moabites, the Hi- vites, the Edomites, the Philistines, the Amalekites, the Sodomites, the Hittites, the Midianites, &c. Also, In this Book is set forth Examples of the Singular and Plural, about Thou, and You, in several Languages, divided into distinct Battle- Doors, or Formes, or Examples; English, Latine, Italian, Greek, Hebrew, Caldee, Syriack, Arabick, Persiack, Ethiopick, Samaritan, Coptick, or Egyptick, Armenian, Saxon, Welch, Mence, Cornish, French, Spanish, Portugal, High-Dutch, Low-Dutch, Danish, Bohemian, Slavonia
Subtitle: And how Emperors and others have used the Singular word to One; and how the word You came first from the Pope. Likewise some Examples, in the Polonian, Lithvanian, Irish and East-Indian, together with the Singular and Plural words, thou and you, in Sweedish, Turkish, Muscovian, and Curlandian, tongues. In the latter part of this Book are contained severall bad unsavory Words, gathered forth of certain School-Books, which have taught Boyes in England, which is a Rod and a Whip to the School-Masters in England and elsewhere who teach such Books
By: George. Fox. John Stubs. Benjamin Furley
Contributors: Furly, Benjamin, 1636-1714; Stubbs, John, of Bishoprick, quaker, -1674; McAlpin Collection of British History and Theology (Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary)
Publisher: Printed for Robert Wilson, and are to be sold at his Shop at the
Published: 1660
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 100