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RADIANCE, brightness.
RADIANT, brilliant.

RAPTURE, great joy.
RECITE, repeat.
RECKONETH, counteth.
RECOLLECT, remember.
RECONCILED, become resigned.
RECOVERY, regaining health.
REFRESHMENT, food.
REMEMBRANCE, recollection.
REPINE, be discontented.
REPOSING, resting.
REPROACH, censure.

REQUIRED, Commanded, obliged.
REQUISITE, Sufficient.
RESIDENCE, place of abode.
RESOLVED, determined.

RESTORETH, giveth back, preserveth.

RETURNED, came back.

REVERENCE, Veneration.
RIGHTEOUS, just.

RIGHTEOUSNESS, justice.

RINGLETS, curls.

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SUCCESSFUL, prosperous.
SUFFERED, endured.
SUFFICIENT, enough.
SUPERSCRIPTION, that which is
written above or upon anything.
SUPPLICATION, entreaty.

SURGEON, one whose profession or occupation is to cure diseases or injuries of the body by manual operation.

SURROUNDS, is around.
SWERVES, wanders from the path.
T.

TEMPTATIONS, trials.
TERRIBLE, dreadful.
THRESHED, beat.

THIRSTY, wanting drink, dry.
THRILLING, penetrating.
TORMENTED, pained, vexed.
TRANQUIL, peaceful.
TRANSGRESSION, evil deed.
TREASURY, that in which money is

collected and preserved.

TRIMMED, cut, adjusted.

TRIUMPHANT, victorious.

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SHUTTLES, Corks stuck with feath- VENTUROUS, dangerous.

ers, shuttlecocks.

SOOTHES, calms.

SORROWFUL, Sad.

SPACIOUS, wide, roomy.

SPARKLES, glitters.

SPENDTHRIFT, one who wastes his

property.

STAGNATION, Stoppage..

VINEYARDS, grounds, planted with
grape-vines.

W.
WARRIOR, warlike.

WHEELBARROW, a light carriage
with one wheel.

WHISTLING, making a shrill noise with the mouth.

STREAMLET, a little stream, a WILDERNESS, desert.

brook.

SUBVERTED, Overturned.

WINNING, gaining the victory. WITHER, fade.

CONTENTS.

PREFACE,

REMARKS TO TEACHERS,

Stops and Marks used in Writing,

Lessons in Enunciation. Introductory Observations,

Elementary Exercises,

Table of Elementary Sounds of the English Language,

Exercises embracing the Elements of Articulation and the

Rules of Pronunciation,

Errors in Articulation,.

Sounds which are often imperfectly enunciated,

Common Errors exemplified in Phrases,

Faults of local usage exemplified,

Pronunciation,

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Rules for avoiding Common Errors, &c.,
LESSON I. Little Edward,

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II. The More Love, the Better Play,

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XII. Ellen and Judith,

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XXIII. What is that, Mother?

The Old Oaken Bucket,

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XXIV. "I am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life,"
"Seek ye the Lord,"

XXV. Forest Trees,

XXVI. Politeness and Friendship,

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XXVIII. The Travelling Musicians,

German Stories, 155

concluded,

XXVII. Persons of Different Opinions and Habits,

XXIX. The Travelling Musicians
XXX. Scene after a Summer Shower,

The Sky Lark,

XXXI. To a Sleeping Infant,

Evergreens,

XXXII. The Village Preacher,

XXXIII. The Village Schoolmaster,

The Grave of the Indian Chief,

XXXIV. The Discontented Pendulum,

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Professor Norton, 161
Mrs. Hemans, 162

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Pinckney, 165
Goldsmith, 165

XXXV. Moral of the Fable of the Pendulum,

XXXVI. Power of Maternal Piety,

XXXVII. The Pet Lamb,

XXXVIII. The Little Wool Merchant,

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Mrs. Sigourney, 178

Wordsworth, 181
Juvenile Miscellany, 184

XXXIX. The Little Wool Merchant-concluded,
XL. The Ocean,

Paraphrase of Psalm CXLVIII.,.
XLI. To a Mother on her Birth Day,
XLII. The Blind Boy,

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XLIII. The Blind Boy-continued,

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XLIV. The Blind Boy-concluded,

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XLV. Love of Divine Providence,

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XLVI. Love of Divine Providence-concluded,

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Vocabulary of Words used in this Book, which are
to be defined,

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Several of the articles in the above Table of Contents are by unknown
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