The Natural Speller and Word BookAmerican Book Company, 1890 - 166 páginas |
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The Natural Speller: And Word Book (Classic Reprint) Lillian Kupfer Sin vista previa disponible - 2018 |
The Natural Speller: And Word Book (Classic Reprint) Lillian Kupfer Sin vista previa disponible - 2017 |
Términos y frases comunes
ABBREVIATIONS al low ance Anno Domini beautiful bert BIRD COLLEGE carefully the difference cate cent cism comma di'a dict DICTATION EXERCISE diphthong ence exercises EXPLANATION.-1 means Fill the blanks fore HOMONYMS land LATIN ROOTS lect lence lesce lessons letter li er lous mark ment na'tion nate ness Notes to Teachers Notice carefully Payt Pennyweight PREFIXES pronunciation PUNCTUATION pupil quotation ra ble sentence si'tion sion sound spect spelling syllables SYNONYMS tain thing tion tious tism tive tran TROUBLESOME WORDS tude ture unmarked VOWELS ward WORDS AND PHRASES WORDS OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED write
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Página 121 - Yes ! let the rich deride, the proud disdain These simple blessings of the lowly train ; To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art...
Página 136 - A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.
Página 48 - THE snow had begun in the gloaming, And busily all the night Had been heaping field and highway With a silence deep and white. Every pine and fir and hemlock Wore ermine too dear for an earl, And the poorest twig on the elm-tree Was ridged inch deep with pearl.
Página 136 - So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan, that moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
Página 130 - Knowledge is like the mystic ladder in the patriarch's dream. Its base rests on the primeval earth — its crest is lost in the shadowy splendour of the empyrean ; while the great authors who for traditionary ages have held the chain of science and philosophy, of poesy and erudition, are the angels ascending and descending the sacred scale, and maintaining, as it were, the communication between man and heaven.
Página 48 - I thought of a mound in sweet Auburn Where a little headstone stood; How the flakes were folding it gently, As did robins the babes in the wood. Up spoke our own little Mabel, Saying, "Father, who makes it snow?
Página 55 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Página 118 - I cannot tell, what you and other men Think of this life; but, for my single self, I had as lief not be, as live to be In awe of such a thing as I m,yself.
Página ii - Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past, and the weapons of its future conquests.
Página 157 - We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives Who thinks most — feels the noblest — acts the best.