Independent Elementary Speller: A Critical Work on Pronunciation Embracing a Strictly Graded Classification of the Primitive and the More Important Derivative Words of the English Language for Oral Spelling, Exercises for Writing from Dictation, Prefixes, Affixes, Etc., Etc

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A.S. Barnes, 1872 - English language - 160 pages
 

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Page 146 - 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 146 - 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 149 - Economy Is no disgrace ; for it is better to live on a little than to outlive a great deal.
Page 145 - INNOCENT child and snow-white flower! Well are ye paired in your opening hour. Thus should the pure and the lovely meet, Stainless with stainless, and sweet with sweet. White as those leaves, just blown apart, Are the folds of thy own young heart; Guilty passion and cankering care Never have left their traces there. Artless one! though thou gazest now O'er the white blossom with...
Page 148 - Paragraph [T], are used, in the order here presented, when references are made to remarks or notes in the margin, at the bottom of the page, or some other part of the book. Letters and figures, however, are now more generally used for marks of reference.
Page 146 - 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 149 - 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 13 - 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 148 - MARKS OF ELLIPSIS [ ....****] are formed by means of a long dash, or of a succession of periods or stars of various lengths, and are used to indicate the omission of letters in a word, of words in a sentence, or of one or more sentences ; as, Friend С s is in trouble. " Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, .... and thy neighbor as thyself.
Page 153 - Society. FRS, Fellow of the Royal Society. FSA, Fellow of the 'Society of Antiquaries.

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