The Standard First[-fifth] Reader ...Phillips, Sampson, 1857 - Readers |
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... noun ; as , John's hat . The possessive case plural is indicated by an apostrophe after the letter s ; as , the trees ' leaves . ΕΙ 5. When a proper name ends in s , the s of the possessive case ought to be expressed in writing , if ...
... noun ; as , John's hat . The possessive case plural is indicated by an apostrophe after the letter s ; as , the trees ' leaves . ΕΙ 5. When a proper name ends in s , the s of the possessive case ought to be expressed in writing , if ...
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... nouns this aspirate in the singular , as in bath , path , mouth ; and vocal in the plural , as in baths , paths , mouths . The h is silent in asthenic , asthma , isthmus , phthisic , phthisical , Thomas , Thames ( pronounced Těmz ) ...
... nouns this aspirate in the singular , as in bath , path , mouth ; and vocal in the plural , as in baths , paths , mouths . The h is silent in asthenic , asthma , isthmus , phthisic , phthisical , Thomas , Thames ( pronounced Těmz ) ...
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... nouns or adjectives have the accent on the first syllable , and when used as verbs on the second : Nouns or Adjectives Verbs . Ab ... noun only : the adjective like the verb Nouns or Adjectives . Verbs . Nouns or Adjectives . 3 * ACCENT ...
... nouns or adjectives have the accent on the first syllable , and when used as verbs on the second : Nouns or Adjectives Verbs . Ab ... noun only : the adjective like the verb Nouns or Adjectives . Verbs . Nouns or Adjectives . 3 * ACCENT ...
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... nouns or verbs . The noun desert ' , signifying merit , has the accent on the last syllable ; also dessert , signifying a service of fruit after meat . Accent the last syllable in pretence ' , finance ' , pretext ' , research ...
... nouns or verbs . The noun desert ' , signifying merit , has the accent on the last syllable ; also dessert , signifying a service of fruit after meat . Accent the last syllable in pretence ' , finance ' , pretext ' , research ...
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... noun or verb , is it generally distinguished by accent ? 89 . Is the accent in ally ' and romance ' the same , whether they be nouns or verbs ? 90. Name some trisyllables that vary their accent . 91. What is said of the accent in ...
... noun or verb , is it generally distinguished by accent ? 89 . Is the accent in ally ' and romance ' the same , whether they be nouns or verbs ? 90. Name some trisyllables that vary their accent . 91. What is said of the accent in ...
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accent acute accent alphabetical Altorf articulation aspirate blessing breath called Canute Carthage child Circumflex consonant sound Cousin cried death diphthong Don G earth elementary sound Ellipsis enounced eyes father fear febrifuge feeling following Exercises Gelert Gesler give Grim hand happy hear heard heart heaven inflection Italicized king laugh liquid consonant live long sound look Lord majesty mark means mind mountain nasal consonant nature never noun pause perverted Peter phaëton pitch poor Practise the Exercises prisum pronounced pronunciation pupil reader replied Rolla rule sentence short sound Socrates sometimes soul sound of long sound of short speak Stanmitz syllable tell thee thine things thou thought tion tone Trajan triphthong truth Tutor unaccented utterance verbs Vivia vocal voice Volney Bekner vowel vowel sounds walk words young youth ΕΙ
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Page 70 - Julius bleed for justice' sake? What villain touch'd his body, that did stab, And not for justice? What, shall one of us, That struck the foremost man of all this world, But for supporting robbers ; shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes ? And sell the mighty space of our large honors, For so much trash, as may be grasped thus? — I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, Than such a Roman.
Page 177 - This Government, the offspring of our own choice, uninfluenced and unawed, adopted upon full investigation and mature deliberation, completely free in its principles, in the distribution of its powers, uniting security with energy, and containing within itself a provision for its own amendment, has a just claim to your confidence and your support. Respect for its authority, compliance with its laws, acquiescence in its measures, are duties enjoined by the fundamental maxims of true liberty.
Page 69 - I have almost forgot the taste of fears : The time has been, my senses would have cool'd To hear a night-shriek; and my fell of hair Would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir As life were in't: I have supp'd full with horrors; Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts, Cannot once start me.
Page 295 - Lo ! such the child whose early feet The paths of peace have trod ; Whose secret heart, with influence sweet, Is upward drawn to God...
Page 110 - Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep : so shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.
Page 264 - How bright the unchanging morn appears! Farewell, inconstant world, farewell ! 5 Life's labor done, as sinks the clay, Light from its load the spirit flies, While heaven and earth combine to say, " How blest the righteous when he dies !
Page 204 - Then out spake brave Horatius, The Captain of the gate : 'To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late; And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers And the temples of his Gods...
Page 252 - to use all the means which God and Nature have put into our hands." I am astonished, I am shocked, to hear such principles confessed — to hear them avowed in this house or in this country...
Page 109 - And further, by these, my son, be admonished : of making many books there is no end ; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.
Page 178 - Can it be, that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue? The experiment, at least, is recommended by every sentiment which ennobles human nature. Alas! is it rendered impossible by its vices?