A Manual of Useful Studies: For the Instruction of Young Persons of Both Sexes, in Families and Schools |
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accent action adapted adjectives admit Amphibrach animals authority bind body called Cicero clause common law Composite Order consists consonant contract Corinthian Order court creation Creator crime denotes Doric order dower duty earth English entablature evil express foot fowls furnished give globe guardian happiness heat Hence high burlesque human husband ideas infant kind labor land language Latin letter liable light manner marriage master means metonymy mind moral nature necessary nouns observe ocean omitted original word parents participle pause perfect tense person plants polypes polysyndeton prefix principles promise pronounced pronunciation proposition reason render revolution Rule sense sentence servant ship signifies sound species Spondee statute substance syllable syllogism tense termination thing tion tree Trochee trope truth Uranus utterance vegetables verb verse voice vowel wife word ends writing