The United States Reader: Containing a Variety of Exercises in Reading, Punctuation, Figures of Speech, Spelling, &c. : for the Use of Schools |
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... give the right inflec- tions to what they read . Reading is considered as of only secondary importance , an exercise which requires not much , if any , previous study . The author believes that if a lesson is taught in a thorough manner ...
... give the right inflec- tions to what they read . Reading is considered as of only secondary importance , an exercise which requires not much , if any , previous study . The author believes that if a lesson is taught in a thorough manner ...
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... give , he must not say , that it will be of no use to go on ; but let each teacher remember that the training of the human mind is a very difficult task , yet it will not do to omit our labors because it is hard . Many of our rules for ...
... give , he must not say , that it will be of no use to go on ; but let each teacher remember that the training of the human mind is a very difficult task , yet it will not do to omit our labors because it is hard . Many of our rules for ...
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... give the sounds of the vowels . Let the pupil look out every reference and tell how it applies to the particular word ; for example , suppose this sentence occurs , My son , give me thine heart , " and there is a refer- ence to § 11. 7 ...
... give the sounds of the vowels . Let the pupil look out every reference and tell how it applies to the particular word ; for example , suppose this sentence occurs , My son , give me thine heart , " and there is a refer- ence to § 11. 7 ...
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... give the rising inflection . You must read the end of each line in such a manner that it will be perceptible to the ear , yet so make the pauses as most fully to exhibit the sense . We must § 4. Accent is a stress laid on a particular ...
... give the rising inflection . You must read the end of each line in such a manner that it will be perceptible to the ear , yet so make the pauses as most fully to exhibit the sense . We must § 4. Accent is a stress laid on a particular ...
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... of merit . " By re- venging an injury , a man is but even with his enemy . ' In most cases , where a short pause will give distinctness to 99 ideas , a comma is well placed after an important UNITED STATES READER . 155 Punctuation, Comma,
... of merit . " By re- venging an injury , a man is but even with his enemy . ' In most cases , where a short pause will give distinctness to 99 ideas , a comma is well placed after an important UNITED STATES READER . 155 Punctuation, Comma,
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Page 284 - And now go to; I will tell you What I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; And break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down...
Page 280 - The voice at midnight came, He started up to hear ; A mortal arrow pierced his frame — He fell, but felt no fear.
Page 124 - When, playing with thy vesture's tissued flowers, 75 The violet, the pink, and jessamine, I pricked them into paper with a pin, (And thou wast happier than myself the while, Wouldst softly speak, and stroke my head and smile), Could those few pleasant days again appear, Might one wish bring them, would I wish them here I would not trust my heart — the dear delight Seems so to be desired, perhaps I might.
Page 122 - Hovered thy spirit o'er thy sorrowing son, Wretch even then, life's journey just begun ? Perhaps thou gavest me, though unfelt, a kiss ; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss ; Ah, that maternal smile, it answers yes...
Page 122 - With me but roughly since I heard thee last. Those lips are thine — thy own sweet smile I see, The same that oft in childhood solaced me; Voice only fails, else how distinct they say, ' Grieve not, my child, chase all thy fears away!
Page 18 - Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars...
Page 172 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale, or piny mountain, Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring. Or chasms and wat'ry depths ; all these have vanished They live no longer in the faith of reason...
Page 63 - Come to the bridal chamber, Death ! Come to the mother when she feels For the first time her first-born's breath ! Come when the blessed seals Which close the pestilence are broke, And crowded cities wail its stroke...
Page 288 - Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward : for all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.
Page 123 - All this still legible in memory's page, And still to be so to my latest age...