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... keep pace with the memory , and the minds of chil- dren may well be employed in learning to spell and pro- nounce words , whose signification is not within the reach of their capacities ; for what they do not clearly understand at first ...
... keep pace with the memory , and the minds of chil- dren may well be employed in learning to spell and pro- nounce words , whose signification is not within the reach of their capacities ; for what they do not clearly understand at first ...
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... keep beer sneer beet street fleece sleep deer peer feet sweet sleeve peep cheer seer sheet food reeve creep sheer steer fleet mood breeze steep jeer queer sleet rood freeze boon € 00 doom loon twö bär , fall , Spelling Book .
... keep beer sneer beet street fleece sleep deer peer feet sweet sleeve peep cheer seer sheet food reeve creep sheer steer fleet mood breeze steep jeer queer sleet rood freeze boon € 00 doom loon twö bär , fall , Spelling Book .
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... keep their pigs in pens . We lie down and sleep in beds . The new broom sweeps clean . The wild deer runs in the woods . The red beet is good to eat . If I meet him in the street I will greet him with a kind look and show him my new ...
... keep their pigs in pens . We lie down and sleep in beds . The new broom sweeps clean . The wild deer runs in the woods . The red beet is good to eat . If I meet him in the street I will greet him with a kind look and show him my new ...
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... keep your dress neat and clean . The moon is much less than the sun . I will try to get a mess of peas for dinner . Let me go and kiss that sweet young babe . Moss grows on trees in the woods . Fire will melt ores , and the metal will ...
... keep your dress neat and clean . The moon is much less than the sun . I will try to get a mess of peas for dinner . Let me go and kiss that sweet young babe . Moss grows on trees in the woods . Fire will melt ores , and the metal will ...
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... lief peach broach peak leaf brief reach leash sne k pye lease tease seize cheese oaf waif neaf grief breach beak preach leak ereak freak Few men can afford to keep a coach . bär , fall , what , prey , marïne , Spelling Book . 39.
... lief peach broach peak leaf brief reach leash sne k pye lease tease seize cheese oaf waif neaf grief breach beak preach leak ereak freak Few men can afford to keep a coach . bär , fall , what , prey , marïne , Spelling Book . 39.
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accented Adjectives al low bär ben e bil i ty bird cate cent chaise cher chro cial cious cism consonant coun denotes dent digraph diphthong dove fall four syllables fu sion gent geon ging la tion lar i ty late letters ling lous lōw ly ness marïne mat ie ment möve Noah Webster nouns orthography pär pärt plural prey pronounced pronunciation ra phy ri ous ri ty rize sive sound Spelling Book syllables tain tate thin thou three syllables tial tion ex tious tism tive trae trans trees ture Verbs vowel whạt Words of four Words of three
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Page 143 - It is no more than justice, quoth the Farmer, to be sure : But, what did I say ? — I mistake. It is your bull that has killed one of my oxen. Indeed ! says the Lawyer ; that alters the case : I must inquire into the affair ; and if — And IF ! said the Farmer — the business, I find, would have been concluded without an IF, had you been as ready to do justice to others as to exact it from them.
Page 143 - I should be glad to know how I am to make you reparation." " Thou art a very honest fellow," replied the Lawyer, " and wilt not think it unreasonable that I expect one of thy oxen in return." " It is no more than justice," quoth the Farmer, " to be sure ; but what did I say — I mistake — it is your bull that has killed one of my oxen.
Page 8 - M are vowels or diphthongs ; to is also a vowel ; and y is either a vowel, a diphthong, or a consonant. A has five sounds, as in late, ask, ball, hat, what. E has three sounds, as in mete, met, prey. I has three sounds, as in pine, pit, fatigue. O has four sounds, as in note, not, move, dove. U has three sounds, as in truth, but, bush. Y has two sounds, as in chyle, pity. The sounds of the vowels most generally used, are the long and the short. Examples of the first or long sound. a in make, fate,...
Page 143 - FARMER came to a neighbouring lawyer, expressing great concern for an accident which, he said, had just happened. "One of your oxen...
Page 18 - LESSON 4. am em im om um an en in on un ap ep ip op up ar er ir or ur as es is os us at et it ot ut ax ex ix ox ux 9 LESSON 5.
Page 142 - HASTY and inconsiderate connections are generally attended with great disadvantages : and much of every man's good or ill fortune depends upon the choice he makes of his friends. A good-natured Spaniel overtook a surly Mastiff, as he was travelling upon the high road.
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