Town's Spelling and Defining Book: Containing Rules for Designating the Accented Syllable in Most Words in the Language. Being an Introduction to Town's Analysis |
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accent Adjectives adverbs antepenult ation Atlantic Ocean cate cation ceive cent chre cial cide cious column consonant defined dent digraph diphthong drol ence fold fore gate ible late lect lence less LESSON letters lous mean ment mute nate ness Nouns ol o gy penult pertaining prefix preter primitive word primitives are verbs ra phy ri ous rif er ous rous Rule sion sound spell suffix syllable TABLE tain tate tion tious tive trans treach tude turb ture ty un vate vert vowel words of three zard
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Page 160 - ... twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen sixteen seventeen eighteen nineteen twenty thirty forty fifty sixty seventy eighty ninety one hundred two hundred three hundred four hundred five hundred...
Page 6 - IV and y are consonants when they begin a word or syllable ; but in every other situation they are vowels.
Page 84 - Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire; Hands, that the rod of empire might have sway'd, Or wak'd to ecstasy the living lyre.
Page 106 - What is that, mother ? The swan, my love. — He is floating down from his native grove, No loved one now, no nestling nigh ; He is floating down by himself to die ; Death darkens his eye, and unplumes his wings, Yet the sweetest song is the last he sings. Live so, my love, that when Death shall come, Swan-like and sweet, it may waft thee home.
Page 106 - Wake, thou that sleepest in enchanted bowers, Lest these lost years should haunt thee on the night When death is waiting for thy numbered hours To take their swift and everlasting flight ; Wake, ere the earth-born charm unnerve thee quite, And be thy thoughts to work divine addressed; Do something — do it soon — with all thy might ; An angel's wing would droop if long at rest, And God himself, inactive, were no longer blessed.
Page 106 - Rouse to some work of high and holy love, And thou an angel's happiness shalt know ; Shalt bless the earth while in the world above ; The good begun by thee shall onward flow In many a branching stream, and wider grow...
Page 106 - WOULDST thou from sorrow find a sweet relief? Or is thy heart oppressed with woes untold ! Balm wouldst thou gather for corroding grief? Pour blessings round thee like a shower of gold. — 'Tis when the rose is wrapt in many a fold Close to its heart, the worm is wasting there Its life and beauty; not when, all unrolled, Leaf after leaf, its bosom, rich and fair, Breathes freely its perfumes throughout the ambient air...
Page 154 - ... pack of goods bail, surety borne, carried bourn, a limit coarse, not fine course, a race way deer, an animal dear, costly fare, provision fair, beautiful flee, to run away flea, an insect fane, a temple fain, gladly feign, to dissemble grate, for coals great, large hare, an animal hair, of the head heel, part of the foot heal, to cure here, in this place hear, to hearken hue, color hew, to cut meet, to assemble meat, food mete, to measure...
Page 4 - A triphthong is the union of three vowels in the same syllable, two of which are mute, as in adieu.
Page 59 - To do to others as I would That they should do to me, Will make me honest, kind, and good, As children ought to be.