National Elementary Speller: A Critical Work on PronunciationA.S. Barnes & Company, 1873 |
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accent åge åll ALPHABETIC EQUIVALENTS ance ånd årr årt åsk åte azure båre boat ċ as k ċal càte caused chiefly formed cious consonant DICTATION EXERCISES dỗ ence füll gåte hence låte lous måte ment mute ǹ as ng nåte ness öld oral element PREFIXES ra ble råte represents one element ri ous ri ty sion sive sound spelling subtonic syllable tåte thin tion tive trans tùde tùre usually represents vowel words
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Page 133 - Primitive words ending in y, preceded by a consonant, change the y into i before any termination but 's, or one commencing with i ; as, merry, merrier ; pity, pitiless.
Page 142 - If in this darksome wild I stray, Be thou my light, be thou my way ; No foes, no violence I fear, No harm, while thou, my God, art near.
Page 145 - Economy Is no disgrace ; for it is better to live on a little than to outlive a great deal.
Page 142 - The air was sweet and plaintive, and the words, literally translated, were these. "The winds roared, and the rains fell. The poor white man, faint and weary, came and sat under our tree. He has no mother to bring him milk; no wife to grind his corn.
Page 145 - The discourse consisted of two parts : in the first was shown the necessity of exercise ; in the second, the advantages that would result from it.
Page 146 - I am the Lord thy God ; thou shalt have no other gods before me.
Page 146 - In six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and rested the seventh day : wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it.
Page 142 - HM TO God the Father's throne Your highest honors raise ; Glory to God the Son ; To God the Spirit praise : With all our powers, Eternal King, Thy name we sing, While faith adores.
Page 11 - In many trisyllables and polysyllables, of two syllables accented, one is uttered with greater force than the other. The more forcible accent is called primary, and the less forcible, secondary.
Page 146 - I do not believe there is an honest man In the world," another replied, " It is impossible that any one man should know all the world, but quite possible that one may know himself.