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... , and Composition by the Word and Sentence Methods James Johonnot. EducT 758. 85.468 758.85 . HARVARD COLLEG MAK 7 1935 LIBRARY Miss M. M. Watson COPYRIGHT , 1885 , BY D. APPLETON AND COMPANY . TO TEACHERS . WHY THIS BOOK WAS MADE . IN.
... , and Composition by the Word and Sentence Methods James Johonnot. EducT 758. 85.468 758.85 . HARVARD COLLEG MAK 7 1935 LIBRARY Miss M. M. Watson COPYRIGHT , 1885 , BY D. APPLETON AND COMPANY . TO TEACHERS . WHY THIS BOOK WAS MADE . IN.
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... teacher has not time to search them out , and arrange them in proper sentences . This book has been prepared with special reference to the difficulty here encountered . It selects and arranges words . It deals with familiar topics . It ...
... teacher has not time to search them out , and arrange them in proper sentences . This book has been prepared with special reference to the difficulty here encountered . It selects and arranges words . It deals with familiar topics . It ...
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... teachers , the drudgery of primary instruction is greatly diminished ; and for pupils , irksome tasks are converted into pleasant exercises . SOME OTHER POINTS . In the spelling , pronunciation , and meaning of words , Webster has been ...
... teachers , the drudgery of primary instruction is greatly diminished ; and for pupils , irksome tasks are converted into pleasant exercises . SOME OTHER POINTS . In the spelling , pronunciation , and meaning of words , Webster has been ...
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... teacher dolly companion My grandfather talks about the old war . Susan can read her primer very well . Aunt Mary is kind to the little ones . Uncle calls at our house every week . What piece shall I read first ? LESSON XL . The pupils ...
... teacher dolly companion My grandfather talks about the old war . Susan can read her primer very well . Aunt Mary is kind to the little ones . Uncle calls at our house every week . What piece shall I read first ? LESSON XL . The pupils ...
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... teacher speaks in low and pleasant tones . Grandmother sits in her rocking - chair and knits . " She sings as she spins at that low cottage door , While the long evening shadows are stretching before ; With a music as sweet , as the ...
... teacher speaks in low and pleasant tones . Grandmother sits in her rocking - chair and knits . " She sings as she spins at that low cottage door , While the long evening shadows are stretching before ; With a music as sweet , as the ...
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Page 155 - ... whose passions are trained to come to heel by a vigorous will, the servant of a tender conscience; who has learned to love all beauty, whether of Nature or of art, to hate all vileness, and to respect others as himself.
Page 150 - I CHATTER over stony ways, In little sharps and trebles, I bubble into eddying bays, I babble on the pebbles. With many a curve my banks I fret By many a field and fallow, And many a fairy foreland set With willow-weed and mallow.
Page 130 - The world recedes; it disappears! Heaven opens on my eyes! my ears With sounds seraphic ring: Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O Grave! where is thy victory? O Death! where is thy sting?
Page 130 - VITAL spark of heavenly flame ! Quit, oh, quit this mortal frame ! Trembling, hoping, lingering, flying : Oh, the pain, the bliss of dying ! Cease, fond nature ! cease thy strife, And let me languish into life ! Hark, they whisper ; angels say,
Page 137 - Though justice be thy plea, consider this, That in the course of justice none of us Should see salvation : we do pray for mercy, And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy.
Page 135 - Meanwhile, impatient to mount and ride, Booted and spurred, with a heavy stride On the opposite shore walked Paul Revere.
Page 142 - ... night ; swallows and martins skimmed twittering about the eaves ; and rows of pigeons, some with one eye turned up, as if watching the weather, some with their heads under their wings, or buried in their bosoms, and others swelling, and cooing, and bowing about their dames, were enjoying the sunshine on the roof.
Page 127 - BREATHES there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land ! Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned, From wandering on a foreign strand...
Page 125 - The sober herd that lowed to meet their young, The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool, The playful children just let loose from school...
Page 148 - Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.