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Title: The Academy Keeper
Or Variety of useful Directions Concerning the Management
of an Academy, The Terms, Diet, Lodging, Recreation,
Discipline, and Instruction of Young Gentlemen. With the
Proper Methods of addressing Parents and Guardians of all
Ranks and Conditions. As Also Necessary Rules for the
proper Choice and Treatment of Academy-Wives, Ushers, and
other menial Servants: with the Reasons of making them
public.

Author: Anonymous

Release Date: February 1, 2010 [EBook #31155]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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THE

Academy Keeper.

[Price One Shilling]

THE

Academy Keeper:

Or VARIETY of useful

DIRECTIONS

Concerning the Management of an

ACADEMY,

THE

TERMS, DIET, LODGING, RECREATION,
DISCIPLINE, and INSTRUCTION of

YOUNG GENTLEMEN.

WITH THE

Proper Methods of addressing Parents and
Guardians of all Ranks and Conditions.

AS ALSO

Necessary RULES for the proper Choice and Treatment
of Academy-Wives, Ushers, and other
menial Servants: with the Reasons of making
them public.

_Quando pauperiem, missis ambagibus, horres;
Accipe, qua ratione, queas ditescere._ HOR.

LONDON:

Printed for THO. PEAT, No. 22. Fleet-Street.
M.DCC.LXX.

Transcriber's Note: In the Contents, Chapter IX has been changed to
read "Ushers" only and Chapter X, "Other Servants", which was not
included in the original text, has been added. Sect. 14 in Chapter IX
is missing from the original text.

INTRODUCTION.

After many unsuccessful experiments, made some years ago, to retrieve a
declining fortune, I was lucky enough at last to marry the mistress of
a boarding-school: her circumstances were not, indeed, at the time of
our marriage, very considerable. But as I was neither unacquainted with
the world, nor the mor