The Reader's Manual: Designed for the Use of Common Schools in the United StatesRobins & Folger, 1840 - 312 pages |
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... Sometimes an author pre- pares a book - perhaps a geography , or historical compend , some treatise of a moral kind , a biography , or something else that is very well and very proper in its place , or that is neither -
... Sometimes an author pre- pares a book - perhaps a geography , or historical compend , some treatise of a moral kind , a biography , or something else that is very well and very proper in its place , or that is neither -
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... sometimes find in reading books grammatical inaccuracies , and modes of expression which , in other respects , are not accordant with cor- rect usage . But when we consider to what extent children acquire a knowledge of their mother ...
... sometimes find in reading books grammatical inaccuracies , and modes of expression which , in other respects , are not accordant with cor- rect usage . But when we consider to what extent children acquire a knowledge of their mother ...
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... sometimes be proper ; but it should be much less frequent than the plan which is recommended seems to contemplate ; and whenever it becomes proper , let a regular dictionary , written by some competent author , be resorted to , and not ...
... sometimes be proper ; but it should be much less frequent than the plan which is recommended seems to contemplate ; and whenever it becomes proper , let a regular dictionary , written by some competent author , be resorted to , and not ...
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... II . INFLECTIONS . WHEN a person sings , he sometimes keeps his voice on the same level through several successive syllables , and some- times raises or depresses it to the amount of a 2 * INFLECTIONS . 17 Inflections,
... II . INFLECTIONS . WHEN a person sings , he sometimes keeps his voice on the same level through several successive syllables , and some- times raises or depresses it to the amount of a 2 * INFLECTIONS . 17 Inflections,
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... Sometimes when the voice turns upwards on a syllable , in the manner just described , it again turns downward as much as it rose . This upward and downward turn of the voice on the same syllable , is called a circumflex , and is thus ...
... Sometimes when the voice turns upwards on a syllable , in the manner just described , it again turns downward as much as it rose . This upward and downward turn of the voice on the same syllable , is called a circumflex , and is thus ...
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accented Æsop angry animal beauty birds body boys breath cadence called Clarà cold companions consonant creatures dear death earth evil eyes father feel felt fire flower George Sanders girl give Growler half dollar hand happy Harry hath head heard heart heaven hope hour inflections interrogative sentences KEEPING UP APPEARANCES kind knew last syllable laugh LESSON light live look LORD Louisa Mills mind mocketh morning moth mother never night o'er parents persons play pleasure poor Puritans rats replied Seaford seemed semitone SILK-WORM sister sleep slide smile snail sometimes soon soul spider spirit suré sweet syllable tardy tears tell thee thing thou shalt thought tion told toné took voice vowel wicked William wind wish words wrong young
Popular passages
Page 261 - So that not only this our craft is in danger to be set at nought ; but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana should be despised, and her magnificence should be destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worshippeth.
Page 310 - Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass. 6 And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday.
Page 70 - My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous...
Page 68 - Go to the Ant, thou Sluggard, consider her ways, and be wise: which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.
Page 67 - My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.
Page 265 - There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty. The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself.
Page 281 - Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves is as true of personal habits as of money.
Page 310 - Delight thyself also in the Lord ; And He shall give thee the desires of thine heart. Commit thy way unto the Lord ; Trust also in Him ; and He shall bring it to pass.
Page 230 - WHO can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil. She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life. She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands. She is like the merchants' ships; she bringeth her food from afar.
Page 155 - Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him (xxii.