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... man - ner vul - gar play - ful de - cent Do not hold your book close to your face while you are reading . It is not proper to whine when you read . LESSON XXV . CLARA LEE . 1. Clara Lee was 84 WORCESTER'S SECOND BOOK .
... man - ner vul - gar play - ful de - cent Do not hold your book close to your face while you are reading . It is not proper to whine when you read . LESSON XXV . CLARA LEE . 1. Clara Lee was 84 WORCESTER'S SECOND BOOK .
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... . 3. But little Clara had one bad habit , which often gave much trouble to herself , to her friends , and more than all others , it grieved her kind mother . 4. Clara was not neat and orderly . Her books. 8 STORY OF CLARA LEE . 85.
... . 3. But little Clara had one bad habit , which often gave much trouble to herself , to her friends , and more than all others , it grieved her kind mother . 4. Clara was not neat and orderly . Her books. 8 STORY OF CLARA LEE . 85.
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Samuel Worcester. 4. Clara was not neat and orderly . Her books would be thrown down in one place , her work in another , her thimble here and her scissors there . Nothing that Clara called hers , was kept in its right place . 5. Now , ...
Samuel Worcester. 4. Clara was not neat and orderly . Her books would be thrown down in one place , her work in another , her thimble here and her scissors there . Nothing that Clara called hers , was kept in its right place . 5. Now , ...
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... o - bli - ging troub - le Bi - ble be - sides or - der - ly scis - sors walk - ed pres - ent thim - ble bas - ket neat - ly talk - ed nee - dles sil - ver LESSON XXVI . CLARA LEE . 1. Clara thanked her SPELLING LESSON . 87.
... o - bli - ging troub - le Bi - ble be - sides or - der - ly scis - sors walk - ed pres - ent thim - ble bas - ket neat - ly talk - ed nee - dles sil - ver LESSON XXVI . CLARA LEE . 1. Clara thanked her SPELLING LESSON . 87.
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Samuel Worcester. LESSON XXVI . CLARA LEE . 1. Clara thanked her dear mother , and said she would try to do right . She often thought of her promise ; and for more than three weeks she kept every thing in its proper place . 2. One day in ...
Samuel Worcester. LESSON XXVI . CLARA LEE . 1. Clara thanked her dear mother , and said she would try to do right . She often thought of her promise ; and for more than three weeks she kept every thing in its proper place . 2. One day in ...
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a-bout a-ny a-way articulation aunt avoided Berkeley birds brook field cake called catch Charles CHARLES BELL Clara clothes common errors consonant corn cows Cup and Ball David Dick diphthong e-nough Ellen Elocution Emily and Frances English language ev-e-ry father fault fields flax garden give glad grass grow happy heard hill Howard and Francis Hundredth hurt inflection Jane John John Holt John Reed Joseph kind labial lambs LESSON letter LIBRARY little girl live look Lord ma-ny Moon mother never Orthoepy Ostrich oth-er parents Peggy play pretty pronunciation Reading and Spelling Samuel Worcester scholars seeds series of Reading sheep sister SOAP BUBBLES sometimes soon sorry sport spring teacher tell things thought told tree true sound UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA ver-y vowel wagon walk Walker's notation warm wicked William wood WORCESTER'S words
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Page 9 - This vowel is not what it would, at first sight, appear to be, — a perfectly simple sound: it consists in reality of two sounds, — that which, in common pronunciation, commences the name of the letter, (a) and that which, in a prolonged utterance, is heard at its close, and which approaches to the name sound of the vowel e. A clear and just articulation of the name sound of a has regard to this complexity of its nature, and closes with a very slight and delicate approach to the sound of e, so...
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Page 74 - ... Spelling (Boston, 1830). It is a letter written by Lucy Turner, a country girl, thirteen years old, to her mother, who was spending a month in Boston at the home of Lucy's aunt, Mrs. White. This letter serves as a dreadful example to all children who, like Lucy, "never take any pains to learn to spell.
Page 9 - The grave accent, or falling inflection, (*) denotes the downward slide of voice, as heard at a period; the acute accent, or rising inflection, (') denotes the upward slide, usually heard at a comma. The application of these inflections, is not necessary to practice in articulation, and, if found embarrassing, may be omitted. The early acquisition of them, however, will save much time in future lessons ; and since the words in these exercises must all be articulated with one inflection or other,...
Page 9 - Avle ace age, aim day bail, dale fail say, pave tape hail, haze may gaze, late maid nay, vail make fame, tail pay lade, jade gay sail, fate faith daily, fade make gate, take mail sale. A, as in Far : Au, as in Launch. Marked as the ' second ' sound of a, in Walker's notation.
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