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... never see any playthings , without wanting the whole and when they were playing with others , they wanted to have all the play , and let the others look on , and praise them . What page is this ? What Lesson ? How many paragraphs does ...
... never see any playthings , without wanting the whole and when they were playing with others , they wanted to have all the play , and let the others look on , and praise them . What page is this ? What Lesson ? How many paragraphs does ...
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... Never say willer for willow , nor widder for widow , or narrer for narrow , nor shadder for shadow , nor vessle for vessel , nor childern for children , nor Al- erd for Alfred . 5 * 1 LESSON XIV . THE LITTLE BOATS . 1. We shall SPELLING ...
... Never say willer for willow , nor widder for widow , or narrer for narrow , nor shadder for shadow , nor vessle for vessel , nor childern for children , nor Al- erd for Alfred . 5 * 1 LESSON XIV . THE LITTLE BOATS . 1. We shall SPELLING ...
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... never mind that , " said Alfred : only see how grandly my Boat sails . " ' I cannot help that , " said Polly : " I have taken pains to get this clean water , to wash the linen , and it shall not be spoiled For all the Boats in Boston ...
... never mind that , " said Alfred : only see how grandly my Boat sails . " ' I cannot help that , " said Polly : " I have taken pains to get this clean water , to wash the linen , and it shall not be spoiled For all the Boats in Boston ...
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... Never say arter for after , nor standin for standing , nor carefly for carefully , nor shamed for ashamed , nor larn for learn , nor cause for because , nor varse for verse , nor begun for began . LESSON XV . A GOOD BOY . 1. We will 56 ...
... Never say arter for after , nor standin for standing , nor carefly for carefully , nor shamed for ashamed , nor larn for learn , nor cause for because , nor varse for verse , nor begun for began . LESSON XV . A GOOD BOY . 1. We will 56 ...
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... never calls them by nick - names , nor tries to vex them . 8. He loves his father , and mother , and teacher , and does all that they bid him ; and he is so kind to all who know him , that they all love him , and try to do him good . 9 ...
... never calls them by nick - names , nor tries to vex them . 8. He loves his father , and mother , and teacher , and does all that they bid him ; and he is so kind to all who know him , that they all love him , and try to do him good . 9 ...
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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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