The Primer was a book for teaching children how to read. For this reasons it starts out listing letters of the alphabet by their various classifications, and then it has lists of words. These words are grouped by number of syllables. I think the main point to be had from them is that they were all either things from every day life, or words from the Bible. Even words like "fornication" and "mortification," made the list. This reminds us, again, that the main benefit to being able to read is being able to read the Bible.
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