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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... , the knowledge of the sign , and of the thing signified , should be acquired together , inasmuch as both are to hold an insepa- rable connection in the mind . OF LANGUAGE , ITS ELEMENTS AND FORMATION . The human 3 ...
... , the knowledge of the sign , and of the thing signified , should be acquired together , inasmuch as both are to hold an insepa- rable connection in the mind . OF LANGUAGE , ITS ELEMENTS AND FORMATION . The human 3 ...
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... things . Letters are characters presented to the eye , in a written language , to indicate the variety of sounds , heard in a spo- ken language . Written language is a combination of words , used by com- mon consent , for signs of ideas ...
... things . Letters are characters presented to the eye , in a written language , to indicate the variety of sounds , heard in a spo- ken language . Written language is a combination of words , used by com- mon consent , for signs of ideas ...
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... con test orts ref use trill qua ver reins kid neys speech diction rags tat ters dawn day spring gift pres ent debt deb it gulf a byss ' ant em met Verbs . limp shud ' der quake Things shake shriv TOWN'S SPELLING AND DEFINING BOOK . 27.
... con test orts ref use trill qua ver reins kid neys speech diction rags tat ters dawn day spring gift pres ent debt deb it gulf a byss ' ant em met Verbs . limp shud ' der quake Things shake shriv TOWN'S SPELLING AND DEFINING BOOK . 27.
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... Things shake shriv el shrink known . count squan der waste bread pam per glut strag gle stroll beef pon der muse sun der part broth pur chase buy swad dle swathe bean riv et clinch tan gle snarl bowl ri fle rob with er fade cake scru ...
... Things shake shriv el shrink known . count squan der waste bread pam per glut strag gle stroll beef pon der muse sun der part broth pur chase buy swad dle swathe bean riv et clinch tan gle snarl bowl ri fle rob with er fade cake scru ...
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... thing . love your book . think what you read . put on your clothes . wash your face clean . brush your teeth . comb your hair . clean your shoes . pare your nails if they need it . get your task . take pains to have it well . go to ...
... thing . love your book . think what you read . put on your clothes . wash your face clean . brush your teeth . comb your hair . clean your shoes . pare your nails if they need it . get your task . take pains to have it well . go to ...
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accent Adjectives antepenult Atlantic Ocean cate cation ceive cent cide cious column consonant defined dent digraph diphthong ence equi fold fore gate ible late lect lence less LESSON letters mean ment mute nate ness nif er ous Nouns ol o gy penult pertaining prefix preter primitive word primitives are verbs ra phy ri ous rif er rif er ous rous Rule sion sound suffix syllable TABLE tain tate tion tious tive trans treach tude ture ty un vate vert vowel W double words of three zard
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Page 104 - Some high or humble enterprise of good Contemplate, till it shall possess thy mind, Become thy study, pastime, rest, and food, And kindle in thy heart a flame refined. Pray Heaven for firmness thy whole soul to bind To this thy purpose — to begin, pursue, With thoughts all fixed, and feelings purely kind ; Strength to complete, and with delight review, And grace to give the praise where all is ever due.
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Page 103 - The morn has but just looked out, and smiled, When he starts from his humble grassy nest, And is up and away with the dew on his breast, And a hymn in his heart, to yon pure bright sphere, To warble it out in his Maker's ear. Ever, my child ! be thy morn's first lays Tuned, like the lark's, to thy Maker's praise. What is that, mother...
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Page 104 - 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...
Page 150 - PUNCTUATION. PUNCTUATION is the art of dividing a written composition into sentences, or parts of sentences, by points or stops, for the purpose of marking the different pauses, which the sense and an accurate pronunciation require.
Page 104 - 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 20 - IV and y are consonants when they begin a word or syllable ; but in every other situation they are vowels.
Page 57 - 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.
Page 103 - WHAT IS THAT, MOTHER?" WHAT is that, Mother? — The lark, my child ! — The morn has but just look'd out, and smiled, When he starts from his humble grassy nest, And is up and away, with the dew on his breast, And a hymn in his heart, to yon pure, bright sphere, To warble it out in his Maker's ear. Ever, my child, be thy morn's first lays Tuned, like the lark's, to thy Maker's praise. What...