Oliver Herford [From "A Child's Primerof Natural History.
Torpedo:--Same charge as before, but theprimer consisted of four dry discs, and two detonators.
A mixture of chlorate of potash and white sugar surrounds the tube and holds it in position; c is a primer filled with mealed powder in connection with the charge of the mine.
Its text was afterwards incorporated in a printed primer of the Hawaiian language.
The first English Primer adapted to school use was The Protestant Tutor, a rather rabid anti-Catholic work which appeared in London, about 1685.
Originally the child next passed to the Catechism and the Bible, but about the middle of the seventeenth century the Primer began to be used.
Reading the vernacular, a little counting and writing, in Teutonic countries a little music, and careful instruction in a religious Primer (R.
The next step forward, in the transition from the religious Primer to secular reading matter for school children, came in the use of the so-called Spellers.
This was an illustrated primer and first reader, which appeared in 1658, and was the first illustrated book ever written for children (R.
The Primer in its original form was a simple manual of devotion for the laity, compiled without any thought of its use in the schools.
See Dowden's A Primer of Shakespeare, or Stopford Brooke's Primer of English Literature.
It is said that in the earliest edition of the New England Primer this prayer is given as above, which is copied from the reprint of 1777.
Author of An Inquiry into Socialism; Primer of Socialism; &c.
Just then he perceived the primer that was peeping out of Lewis's shirt bosom.
And one evening I stole the Russian primer and repaired to a secret place I knew of.
The Primer of Political Economy, in Sixteen Definitions and Forty Propositions, by A.
For a short and comprehensive treatise, we know of nothing better than 'The Primer of Political Economy.
Urna perteneciente de los restos del Primer Almirante Don Cristoval Colon, Descubridor--Urn containing the remains of the First Admiral Don Christopher Columbus, Discoverer.
Author of A Primer of Physiological Psychology; An Introduction to Social Psychology; &c.
Pomp's primer was a Government placard hanging on the wall of the office.
It was placed there for the instruction and edification of visitors; but, no visitors coming, he took the liberty of using it as a primer for Pomp.
There was hardly a shut mouth in the primer class.
The spring breeze blew in at the open door, and even fluttered the primer leaves, but the back of the room felt hot and close, as if it were midsummer.
He used to be in primer just as you are now, and 't wasn't long before he was out of it, either, and was called the smartest boy in school.
The primer class especially had begun to flag in attention, but one or two faces among the elder scholars fairly shone with vital sympathy and a lovely prescience of their future.
Mr. Mavering, with the unserious interest which Mrs. Primer made most people feel in her talk.
