The Modern Spelling Book: Designed as a Guide in the Study of Orthography, Pronunciation, and Meaning of Common English WordsSheldon, 1883 - 160 من الصفحات |
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adjectives adverbs al low ançe Anglo-Saxon āte ble im blige cate çent chyle çine çir'eus columns consonant cov'er dençe dent di'a Dictation Review Dictation Review.-The diş eāte ĕl'e ençe ĕv'er flow'er fōre Form nouns füşe găte Greek hu'mor In'ter işm language last syllable lāte Latin lent lib'er lieve Long sound loŭs märch marked māte ment min'is mis'sion mul'ti NAMES näte nent ness nouns are derived OPPOSITE MEANINGS oŭs păr'a pâr'ent Past Participles pěl plural pōrt pōşe prefix Pronounced prop'er pupils ra ble rāte şerve silent letters Sound of long Sound of short subvocal suffix Suffixes which form syllable SYNONYMOUS ta'tion tain TEST WORDS tive tōne trans tūde tūre u'ni Various sounds Verbs vi'o vişe vowels Words often Incorrectly Write
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الصفحة 102 - A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser to-day than he was yesterday.
الصفحة 102 - Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and it becomes so strong that we cannot break it.
الصفحة 96 - ... truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the sunbeam ; though this ill hap wait on her nativity, that she never comes into the world, but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her forth...
الصفحة 117 - Times grew worse and worse with Rip Van Winkle as years of matrimony rolled on; a tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
الصفحة 96 - If he chance to die young, yet he lives long that lives well ; and time misspent is not lived but lost. Besides, God is better than his promise, if he takes from him a long lease, and gives him a freehold of...
الصفحة 106 - One death-grapple in the darkness 'twixt old systems and the Word; Truth for ever on the scaffold, Wrong for ever on the throne, — Yet that scaffold sways the future, and, behind the dim unknown, Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
الصفحة 85 - A Primitive Word * is one which is not derived from any other word in the language; as, great, boy, snowball.
الصفحة 117 - ... on the infirmities it detects, and represents the whole man. Wit is abrupt, darting, scornful, and tosses its analogies in your face ; Humor is slow and shy, insinuating its fun into your heart. Wit is negative, analytical, destructive ; Humor is creative. The couplets of Pope are witty, but Sancho Panza is a humorous creation.
الصفحة 6 - The letters, a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes w and y, are vowels. The other letters of the alphabet are consonants.
الصفحة 117 - If a man be in advance of his age, he must be content to make his abode in this hall, until the lingering generations of his fellow-men come up with him. He can find no other shelter in the universe. But the fantasies of one day are the deepest realities of a future one.