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... live . Sin will lead us to pain and woe . A bad life makes a bad end . Love that which is good and shun vice . Help such as need help and be kind . God will bless those who are kind to the poor . LESSON 80 . brāve brake grave flake ...
... live . Sin will lead us to pain and woe . A bad life makes a bad end . Love that which is good and shun vice . Help such as need help and be kind . God will bless those who are kind to the poor . LESSON 80 . brāve brake grave flake ...
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... live cob ' web pan ' eake fish ' hook cow pen bed post snow ball pop gun bed room blue bird post ' aģe ink stand bean pole eat nip eow slip band box silk worm sun set sun rise tea eup tea pot play day foot ball play mate fire fly lie ...
... live cob ' web pan ' eake fish ' hook cow pen bed post snow ball pop gun bed room blue bird post ' aģe ink stand bean pole eat nip eow slip band box silk worm sun set sun rise tea eup tea pot play day foot ball play mate fire fly lie ...
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... live , if there were no air . The fire could not burn wood to keep us warm , if there were no air . The birds could not fly , and ships could not sail , and the boys could not raise the kite . You could not hear me speak , nor hear the ...
... live , if there were no air . The fire could not burn wood to keep us warm , if there were no air . The birds could not fly , and ships could not sail , and the boys could not raise the kite . You could not hear me speak , nor hear the ...
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... live ly a droit ' cheer ful an nounce pro af firm ' af fix elaim dex trous a bash con fuse a way ab sent af front of fend be neaтH un der ap peal re fer be yond fur THer ap pend at tach di vine god like as pire de sire ex pert skill ful ...
... live ly a droit ' cheer ful an nounce pro af firm ' af fix elaim dex trous a bash con fuse a way ab sent af front of fend be neaтH un der ap peal re fer be yond fur THer ap pend at tach di vine god like as pire de sire ex pert skill ful ...
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... live mis trust with draw in lay re trench in cense en rage cant ' er gal ' lop in fer de duce elat ter rat tle im pugn at tack cod dle pär boil in close ' sur round ' dal ' ly in snare en trap hag gle mal treat a buse heärk en tri ' fle ...
... live mis trust with draw in lay re trench in cense en rage cant ' er gal ' lop in fer de duce elat ter rat tle im pugn at tack cod dle pär boil in close ' sur round ' dal ' ly in snare en trap hag gle mal treat a buse heärk en tri ' fle ...
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accent adjectives adverbs antepenult bär cate ceive cent cial cif er ous cious cir eum column con test defined denotes its sound dent drol elam elean ence equi fore ful ly ful ness fy-ing-cation härd härm jeet leet lence less LESSON letters mean ment möve ness Nouns ol o gy ous ly pär pärt penult pertaining port preter primitive word Quadrupeds ra phy ri ous Rule ship sion sive sound as heard spell subvocal suffix syllable TABLE tain ting tion tive trans treach tude turb ture ty un vate verbs vert vocals
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Page 116 - Monosyllables, and words accented on the last syllable, ending with a single consonant preceded by a single vowel, double that consonant, when they take another syllable beginning with a vowel...
Page 99 - March, the sun rises- exactly in the east, and sets exactly in the west.
Page 151 - If you have an enemy act kindly to him, and make him your friend. You may not win him over at once, but try again. Let one kindness be followed by another...
Page 3 - ... Letters and Spelling, let him learn these and such like Sentences by Heart." By the 1830s, however, spelling was under challenge, and textbooks rushed to redefine its value as literacy instruction. Salem Town's Spelling and Defining Book (1838) insisted that "a child being taught, both to read and to spell, should be taught, at the same time, to understand what he reads...
Page 151 - The road ambition travels is too narrow for friendship, too crooked for love, too rugged for honesty, too dark for science, and too hilly for happiness.
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Page 158 - Punctuation and Capital Letters. PUNCTUATION. Punctuation is the art of dividing a written composition into sentences, or parts of sentences, by points or stops, to mark the different pauses which the sense requires. The principal points are the Comma, thus , Interrogation, thus ? Semicolon, ; Exclamation, ! :. • Colon...
Page 80 - ve seen him drop To call our robin in; The line that held his pretty kite, His bow, his cup and ball, The slate on which he learned to write, His feather, cap, and all!