Analytical Fifth-[sixth] Reader: Containing an Introductory Article on the General Principles of Elocution [etc.]G. & C.W. Sherwood, 1867 |
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... representing as many different classes of composition , are Amen ! analyzed at length in the book . The questions in these anal- yses , although somewhat ( minute , are yet by no means ex- haustive . They are intended to indicate the ...
... representing as many different classes of composition , are Amen ! analyzed at length in the book . The questions in these anal- yses , although somewhat ( minute , are yet by no means ex- haustive . They are intended to indicate the ...
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... represent it : First , the pupil's progress is acceler- ated by his being compelled to submit each doubtful sound of every word assigned , to a discriminating study , in order properly to represent it on the paper to be passed in for ...
... represent it : First , the pupil's progress is acceler- ated by his being compelled to submit each doubtful sound of every word assigned , to a discriminating study , in order properly to represent it on the paper to be passed in for ...
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... represented by the component parts of these digraphs , yet , as it is found that no ambiguity can arise from the use of these forms , when once the power of each is known , they have been suffered to stand . ERRATUM . The principal ...
... represented by the component parts of these digraphs , yet , as it is found that no ambiguity can arise from the use of these forms , when once the power of each is known , they have been suffered to stand . ERRATUM . The principal ...
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... representing the sound off , in sheaf , cuff , laugh , sphere ? Name three other words to illustrate each of these four ways . In what two ways is the sound of t represented in eat and reefed ? LESSON II . Pronounce mete , mead , meed ...
... representing the sound off , in sheaf , cuff , laugh , sphere ? Name three other words to illustrate each of these four ways . In what two ways is the sound of t represented in eat and reefed ? LESSON II . Pronounce mete , mead , meed ...
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... represented in 23 the keys to English spelling - books and dictionaries by e . [ The short horizontal mark over the e is called a macron . ] We will use è whenever we wish to represent this sound ; and these eight words will , in our ...
... represented in 23 the keys to English spelling - books and dictionaries by e . [ The short horizontal mark over the e is called a macron . ] We will use è whenever we wish to represent this sound ; and these eight words will , in our ...
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Page 115 - At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorned the venerable place; Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway; And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.
Page 328 - Let me play the Fool : With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come ; And let my liver rather heat with wine, Than my heart cool with mortifying groans. Why should a man, whose blood is warm within, Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster ? Sleep when he wakes?
Page 280 - Thou visitest the earth and waterest it : thou greatly enrichest it with the river of God, which is full of water: thou preparest them corn, when thou hast so provided for it.
Page 253 - Towards the preservation of your government, and the permanency of your present happy state, it is requisite, not only that you steadily discountenance irregular oppositions to its acknowledged authority, but also that you resist with care the spirit of innovation upon its principles however specious the pretexts.
Page 395 - And I have loved thee, Ocean ! and my joy Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be Borne, like thy bubbles, onward : from a boy I wantoned with thy breakers — they to me Were a delight : and if the freshening sea Made them a terror — 'twas a pleasing fear, For I was as it were a child of thee, And trusted to thy billows far and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane — as I do here.
Page 228 - Yet not the more Cease I to wander where the Muses haunt Clear spring, or shady grove, or sunny hill, Smit with the love of sacred song...
Page 59 - tis said, when all were fired, Filled with fury, rapt, inspired, From the supporting myrtles round They snatched her instruments of sound ; And, as they oft had heard apart Sweet lessons of her forceful art, Each (for Madness ruled the hour) Would prove his own expressive power.
Page 283 - I REMEMBER, I REMEMBER. I REMEMBER, I remember The house where I was born, The little window where the sun Came peeping in at morn : He never came a wink too soon, Nor brought too long a day, But now I often wish the night Had borne my breath away ! I remember, I remember...
Page 253 - However combinations or associations of the above description may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.
Page 56 - I cannot tell what you and other men Think of this life, but, for my single self, I had as lief not be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself.