Ye ken Hornbook i' the clachan, Deil mak his king's-hood in spleuchan!
So one of my mother's chief cares was to teach me my letters, which I learnt from big A to "Ampusand" in the old hornbook at Lantrig.
I have that hornbook still:-- "Covered with pellucid horn, To save from fingers wet the letters fair.
This like the criss-cross row in the hornbookwas originally Christ's cross.
These little books often opened with the criss-cross row or alphabet arranged hornbook fashion, hence the term primer naturally came to be applied to all elementary books for children's use.
An affine of thehornbook is seen in the wooden "reading-boards" which were used a hundred years ago in Erasmus Hall, the famous old academy built in 1786 in Flatbush, Long Island.
Erasmus Hall] The book which succeeded the hornbookin general use was the New England Primer.
All needs must there begin, that would be wise, Nor let them fall under Discouragement, Who at their Hornbook stick, and time hath spent, Upon that A.
When any scholar could advance beyond hornbook and primer he was ready for grammar.
Even the pictures of the Holy Family show the infant Christ, hornbookin hand, tenderly taught by the Virgin Mother.
At the lower end of the wooden back was usually a little handle which often was pierced with a hole; thus the hornbook could be carried by a string, which could be placed around the neck or hung by the side.
At the lower end of the hornbook was usually a handle, which sometimes had a hole through it for a string to carry it by or to hang it around the neck.
The two most noted books were the Hornbook and the New England Primer.
The purpose is personal satire, Doctor Hornbook being a real person, John Wilson, a schoolmaster in Tarbolton, who had turned quack and apothecary.
Death is made to complain that the doctor is balking him of his legitimate prey, and the drift seems to be complimentary; when in the last few verses it appears that in compensation Hornbook kills far more than he cures.
The figure of Death is an amazingly graphic creation, with its mixture of weirdness and familiar humor; while the attack on Hornbook is managed with consummate skill.
Ye ken Jock Hornbook i' the Clachan, Deil mak his kings-hood in a spleuchan!
The hornbook was used for teaching the letters, some of the combinations of vowels and consonants and either the Lord's Prayer or some other verses of easy reading.
On the hornbook the letters of the alphabet were usually followed by the character &, to which were added the Latin words per se and the English word and, making & per se and.
They also tell of the use of the hornbook and the sun-dial, describe the making of soap and candles, and so forth.
I remember the lessons of childhood, you see, And the hornbook I learn'd on my poor mother's knee.
She had some notion of good manners, and knew as much of herhornbook [a child's primer consisting of a sheet of parchment or paper protected by a sheet of transparent horn--D.
It probably resembled this typical hornbook in the collection of Mrs. Arthur M.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hornbook" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
