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Samuel Worcester. cleanly . He loves to feed on the flesh of animals that have long been dead . 10. You see by the picture , that the Ostrich has a very long neck . The Condor has a ... Howard and Francis were brothers . SPELLING LESSON .
Samuel Worcester. cleanly . He loves to feed on the flesh of animals that have long been dead . 10. You see by the picture , that the Ostrich has a very long neck . The Condor has a ... Howard and Francis were brothers . SPELLING LESSON .
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Samuel Worcester. LESSON XXXIV . 1. Howard and Francis were brothers . Howard was six years old , and Francis was four . They were nearly of the same size , and so they were very fit to play to- gether . ters . 2. They had several ...
Samuel Worcester. LESSON XXXIV . 1. Howard and Francis were brothers . Howard was six years old , and Francis was four . They were nearly of the same size , and so they were very fit to play to- gether . ters . 2. They had several ...
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Samuel Worcester. good ; but Howard and Francis thought they were too young to do much good . When they thought so , they did not try ; and when people are not trying to do good , they are apt to do evil . So it was with Howard and Francis ...
Samuel Worcester. good ; but Howard and Francis thought they were too young to do much good . When they thought so , they did not try ; and when people are not trying to do good , they are apt to do evil . So it was with Howard and Francis ...
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... He said they could do good when they were at play . This seem- ed very strange to Howard and Francis . They loved to play , but they did not see how it could do any good , except to amuse them . 8. Spell these words , and then I will ...
... He said they could do good when they were at play . This seem- ed very strange to Howard and Francis . They loved to play , but they did not see how it could do any good , except to amuse them . 8. Spell these words , and then I will ...
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Samuel Worcester. LESSON XXXV . 1 . DOING GOOD AT PLAY . Howard and Francis often tried to ink what was meant by doing good at lay . One day they heard their father say , at a man was very wicked , who tried to ex others , and make them ...
Samuel Worcester. LESSON XXXV . 1 . DOING GOOD AT PLAY . Howard and Francis often tried to ink what was meant by doing good at lay . One day they heard their father say , at a man was very wicked , who tried to ex others , and make them ...
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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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