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• Education -- Early works to 1800

• A Sermon on Education, Wherein Some Account is Given of the Academy, Established in the City of Philadelphia: Preach'd at the Opening thereof, on the Seventh Day of January, 1750-1, by Richard Peters (frame-dependent page images here at Penn)

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• The Compleat Gentleman: Fashioning Him Absolute in the Most Necessary and Commendable Qualities Concerning Minde or Bodie That May be Required in a Noble Gentleman (London: Printed for F. Constable, 1622), by Henry Peacham (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A Reformation of Schooles Designed in Two Excellent Treatises (London: Printed for M. Sparke, 1642), by Johann Amos Comenius, trans. by Samuel Hartlib (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Thoughts on Education (London: Printed for D. Wilson, 1761), by Gilbert Burnet (multiple formats at Google)
• Emile, by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, trans. by Barbara Foxley (Gutenberg text)
• Emile (in English and French), by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, trans. by Barbara Foxley and Grace G. Roosevelt (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• The Great Didactic, by Johann Amos Comenius, ed. by M. W. Keatinge (PDF files at Roehampton)
• Of Education, by John Milton
  • HTML at Renascence Editions
  • HTML with commentary at Dartmouth
  • HTML with commentary at Bartleby
• Positions Concerning the Training Up of Children, by Richard Mulcaster, ed. by William Barker (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• The First Part of the Elementarie Which Entreateth Chieflie of the Right Writing of our English Tung, by Richard Mulcaster (zipped TEI at OTA)
• Essays, Civil and Moral, and The New Atlantis; Areopagitica and Tractate on Education; Religio Medici (Harvard Classics v3; New York: P. F. Collier and Son, c1909), ed. by Charles William Eliot and William Allan Neilson, contrib. by Francis Bacon, John Milton, and Thomas Browne
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Reflections on the Study of Nature, Translated from the Latin of the Celebrated Linnaeus (London: Printed for G. Nicol, 1785), by Carl von Linné, trans. by James Edward Smith
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• A Little Pretty Pocket-Book (first Worcester edition; Worcester, MA: Isaiah Thomas, 1787), contrib. by Isaiah Thomas (page images at LOC)

• The Education of the Human Race, by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, trans. by F. W. Robertson (HTML with commentary at Fordham)

• Early Religion: or, The Way for a Young Man to Remember His Creator Proposed in a Sermon Preach'd Upon the Death of Mr. Robert Linager, a Young Gentleman, Who Left This World, Octob. 26, 1682; With an Account of Some Passages of His Life and Death (London: Printed for J. Robinson and J. Dunton, 1683), by Timothy Rogers, contrib. by Edward Veel (HTML and EEBO TCP)

• The Instruction of a Christen Woman (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, c2002), by Juan Luis Vives, ed. by Virginia Walcott Beauchamp, Elizabeth Hageman, and Margaret Lael Mikesell (HTML at U-Illinois Press)

• Some Thoughts Concerning Education, by John Locke
  • HTML at Fordham
  • HTML at Bartleby

• The Advancement of Learning, by Francis Bacon, ed. by Hartmut Krech and William Aldis Wright (HTML at Renascence Editions)
• The Advancement of Learning (London: Cassell, 1893), by Francis Bacon (Gutenberg text)

• Dissertatio, de Ingenii Muliebris ad Doctrinam, et Meliores Litteras Aptitudine (in Latin; 1641), by Anna Maria van Schurman (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Boarding School: Lessons of a Preceptress to Her Pupils (Boston: J.P. Peaslee, 1829), by Hannah Webster Foster (Gutenberg text)

• Mentoria: or, The Young Lady's Friend (2 volumes; Philadelphia: Printed for R. Campbell, 1794), by Mrs. Rowson
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • HTML at Evans TCP