School Studies in Words: Consisting of Graded Lessons in Spelling, Analysis, Synonyms, and Language, with Copious Dictation ExercisesLeach, Shewell, and Sanborn, 1892 - 190 من الصفحات |
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Abbreviations Adjectives al low allspice animals bear birds bobolink CAPITAL cent column comma consonant define each word denotes Dickens Dictation dictation exercises diş ence entire lesson fee ble final letter following words gen tle give grace grain gree gutta-percha LARGEST CITY less Let the pupil li er ment ness nouns pear persons pertaining plural prefix punctuation pupil will write Review and Test RIVER rule Silent Letters sion sound spect spelling ster suffix syllable Synonyms ta'tion tain Test Words things tice tion tive treach treme tridg Triphthong turb ture verbs vowel whey Words Often Mispronounced Write every word Write the entire
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الصفحة 139 - This Government, the offspring of our own choice, uninfluenced and unawed, adopted upon full investigation and mature deliberation, completely free in its principles, in the distribution of its powers, uniting security with energy, and containing within itself a provision for its own amendment, has a just claim to your confidence and your support.
الصفحة 161 - So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan that moves To the pale realms of shade, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
الصفحة 127 - O how canst thou renounce the boundless store Of charms which Nature to her votary yields ! The warbling woodland, the resounding shore, The pomp of groves, and garniture of fields ; All that the genial ray of morning gilds, And all that echoes to the song of even, All that the mountain's sheltering bosom shields, And all the dread magnificence of Heaven, O how canst thou renounce, and hope to be forgiven ! These charms shall work thy soul's eternal health, And love, and gentleness, and joy impart.
الصفحة 127 - Where fear, distrust, malevolence, abide, And impotent desire, and disappointed pride? IX. 0 how canst thou renounce the boundless store Of charms which Nature to her votary yields! The warbling woodland, the resounding shore, The pomp of groves, and garniture of fields...
الصفحة 132 - The education of our children is never out of my mind. Train them to virtue. Habituate them to industry, activity, and spirit. Make them consider every vice as shameful and unmanly. Fire them with ambition to be useful.
الصفحة 57 - We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives Who thinks most — feels the noblest — acts the best.
الصفحة 60 - One by one the sands are flowing, One by one the moments fall; Some are coming, some are going; Do not strive to grasp them all. One by one thy duties wait thee, Let thy whole strength go to each, Let no future dreams elate thee, Learn thou first what these can teach.
الصفحة 97 - How beautiful is night ! A dewy freshness fills the silent air, No mist obscures, nor cloud, nor speck, nor stain, Breaks the serene of heaven : In full-orbed glory yonder moon divine Rolls through the dark blue depths.
الصفحة 42 - OVER the river and through the wood, To grandfather's house we go ; The horse knows the way To carry the sleigh Through the white and drifted snow.
الصفحة 88 - Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever.