Third Book for Reading and SpellingJenks, Palmer & Company, 1849 - 288 pages |
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... syllables , and the parts of compound words : as , vir - tue , night - walker . The index ( IF ) points to something ... syllable of a word is to be accented , or sounded with the most force . The brace } is used to link several things ...
... syllables , and the parts of compound words : as , vir - tue , night - walker . The index ( IF ) points to something ... syllable of a word is to be accented , or sounded with the most force . The brace } is used to link several things ...
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... syllables in their natural and appropriate pro- nunciation . TABLE OF THE ELEMENTARY SOUNDS OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE . [ The elements contained in this table should be prac- tised , with and without the words in which they are ...
... syllables in their natural and appropriate pro- nunciation . TABLE OF THE ELEMENTARY SOUNDS OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE . [ The elements contained in this table should be prac- tised , with and without the words in which they are ...
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... syllables . The rule of practice , therefore , in regard to the exercises of reading and speaking , should be , Always to articulate with such energy , deliberateness , and accu- racy , that every sound of the voice may be fully and ...
... syllables . The rule of practice , therefore , in regard to the exercises of reading and speaking , should be , Always to articulate with such energy , deliberateness , and accu- racy , that every sound of the voice may be fully and ...
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... syllables . 1st . Those which consist in omitting or obscuring words . Among these are the following : In the pronunciation of the conjunction and , cut- ting off the final letter d , and obscuring or omitting the initial letter a ...
... syllables . 1st . Those which consist in omitting or obscuring words . Among these are the following : In the pronunciation of the conjunction and , cut- ting off the final letter d , and obscuring or omitting the initial letter a ...
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... syllables , are chiefly exemplified in the letters e and o , which are incorrectly sounded like e in her and like o in come . The true sound of e and o in such syllables is that which is heard in the first syllable of the words rewrite ...
... syllables , are chiefly exemplified in the letters e and o , which are incorrectly sounded like e in her and like o in come . The true sound of e and o in such syllables is that which is heard in the first syllable of the words rewrite ...
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accented answered articulation avoided Behold bird Blessed bonnet brother called Caroline child cloze dear diphthong Edward Eliza enunciation exercises eyes father fault feel Gehazi give habit hand happy Harry hath hear heard heart heaven Henry hoop inflection Israel Italic type James Brown Julius kind king lawr leprosy Lesson letter live look Lord mamma mark Mary Medes mispronounced morning mother Naaman never Nichols o'er old oaken bucket Oregon country orthoepy pause persons pleasure poor PORRINGER praise pronounced pronunciation Psalm QUESTIONS Reader rhymes Rule SAMUEL WORCESTER say unto scholar Scriptures sentence servant sing sister sometimes soon sound unaccented speak spiled Stanmore syllables teacher tell thee things thou shalt thought tion told took trees Truman verse voice vowel walk Walker's notation wish words Zarephath
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Page 169 - Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With blossomed furze unprofitably gay, There, in his noisy mansion, skill'd to rule, The village master taught his little school; A man severe he was, and stern to view, I knew him well, and every truant knew; Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace The day's disasters in his morning face ; Full well they laugh'd with counterfeited glee, At all his jokes, for many a joke had he...
Page 252 - A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand ; but it shall not come nigh thee. 8 Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked.
Page 170 - Yet he was kind, or, if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault...
Page 244 - And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house and when thou walkest by the way and when thou liest down and when thou risest up.
Page 239 - And it came to pass, when the king of Israel had read the letter, that he rent his clothes, and said, Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man doth send unto me to recover a man of his leprosy ? Wherefore consider, I pray you, and see how he seeketh a quarrel against me.
Page 266 - And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee : for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
Page 250 - Soon as the evening shades prevail The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth...
Page 280 - And so he that had received five talents came and brought other five talents, saying, Lord, thou deliveredst unto me five talents : behold, I have gained beside them five talents more.
Page 275 - Unto what is the kingdom of God like? and whereunto shall I resemble it ? 19 It is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and cast into his garden; and it grew, and waxed a great tree ; and the fowls of the air lodged in the branches of it.
Page 167 - To tempt its new-fledged offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reproved each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way. Beside the bed where parting life was laid, And sorrow, guilt, and pain by turns dismayed, The reverend champion stood. At his control Despair and anguish fled the struggling soul ; Comfort came down the trembling wretch to raise, And his last faltering accents whispered praise.