The Art of Reading and Writing English: Or, the Chief Principles and Rules of Pronouncing Our Mother-tongue, ... |
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... never been my profest Business : I expect rather they will re- prove me for defcending from nobler " Studies , to employ my Thoughts on So mean a Subject . Now , if I had a mind to flatter my Ambition , I would call in Several Great ...
... never been my profest Business : I expect rather they will re- prove me for defcending from nobler " Studies , to employ my Thoughts on So mean a Subject . Now , if I had a mind to flatter my Ambition , I would call in Several Great ...
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... never at- tained a good Knowledge of the general Force and Sound of the English Letters , nor the customary and various Ufe of Diphthongs ; and being utter Strangers to the Derivation of Words from foreign Languages , they neither spell ...
... never at- tained a good Knowledge of the general Force and Sound of the English Letters , nor the customary and various Ufe of Diphthongs ; and being utter Strangers to the Derivation of Words from foreign Languages , they neither spell ...
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... never be right . But in feveral of thefe Inftances , the Criticks themselves are at great Variance , tho the Matter is of too trifling Importance to be the Sub- ject of learned Quarrels : and Custom , which is , and will be , Sovereign ...
... never be right . But in feveral of thefe Inftances , the Criticks themselves are at great Variance , tho the Matter is of too trifling Importance to be the Sub- ject of learned Quarrels : and Custom , which is , and will be , Sovereign ...
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Isaac Watts. Readers in this eafy Practice . I'll never conteft the Bufinefs of Spelling with any Man ; for after all the most laborious Searches into Antiquity , and the Com- bats of the Grammarians , there are a hundred Words that all ...
Isaac Watts. Readers in this eafy Practice . I'll never conteft the Bufinefs of Spelling with any Man ; for after all the most laborious Searches into Antiquity , and the Com- bats of the Grammarians , there are a hundred Words that all ...
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... never make a Syllable alone , nor give a clear and perfect Sound with out a Vowel pronounced with it . 9Q ; How does it appear that a Confonant can make no perfect Sound by itself alone ? A. The very Names of the Confo- nants cannot be ...
... never make a Syllable alone , nor give a clear and perfect Sound with out a Vowel pronounced with it . 9Q ; How does it appear that a Confonant can make no perfect Sound by itself alone ? A. The very Names of the Confo- nants cannot be ...
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Accent alfo almoft Anfwer becauſe Book call'd called CHAP Chapters chufe common Confonants Cuftom Defign diftin&t Sounds diftinct Diph Diphthongs Direction doth eafy Emphafis Emphatical Word English Tongue fame fecond feldom feven feveral fhall fhew fhort fhould fhow fignify filent fingle fingle Confonant firft Syllable firſt fmall foft fome fome Words fometimes fonant foreign Words founded fpell fpell'd ftand fuch Words give Guife Hebrew Inftances itſelf juft Julap lable laft Syllable laſt Leffons Letters Lier in wait Line lofe its Sound loft Mafter Metre moft moſt muft muſt nants neceffary Note nounced Number Obferve Perfons placed printed Profe pronounced Pronunciation proper Names Reader reft Rhyme Rules Scholars Senfe Senſe Sentence Skrew ſpell Sylla Teftament tence thefe thefe Words themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe Tychicus ufed ufually uncon uſed Verfe Verſe Voice Vowels wherein Writing written
Popular passages
Page 65 - Tis the voice of the sluggard ; I heard him complain, " You have waked me too soon, I must slumber again." As the door on its hinges, so he on his bed, Turns his sides, and his shoulders, and his heavy head. "A little more sleep, and a little more slumber...
Page 57 - A dungeon horrible, on all sides round, As one great furnace, flamed; yet from those flames No light; but rather darkness visible Served only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell ; hope never comes That comes to all ; but torture without end Still urges, and a fiery deluge, fed With ever-burning sulphur unconsumed.
Page 64 - Glittering stones, and golden things, Wealth and honours that have wings, Ever fluttering to be gone, I could never call my own: Riches that the world bestows, She can take, and I can lose; But the treasures that are mine Lie afar beyond her line. When I view my spacious soul, And survey myself a whole, And enjoy myself alone, I'ma kingdom of my own.
Page 127 - ... to the greater; thus, IV. Four. V. Five. VI. Six. IX. Nine. X. Ten. XI. Eleven. XL. Forty. L. Fifty. LX. Sixty. XC. Ninety. C. A hundred. CX. A hundred and ten.
Page 135 - Writing, we can fit at home and acquaint ourfelves what is done in all the diftant Parts of the World, and find what our Fathers did long ago in the firft Ages of Mankind. By this means a Briton holds Correfpondence with his Friend in America...
Page 135 - By this means a Briton holds correspondence with his friend in America, or Japan, and manages all his traffic. We learn by this means how the old Romans lived, how the Jews...
Page 49 - After a pe-ri-od, or full stop, when a new sentence be-gins. 3. At the be-gin-ning of ev-e-ry line in poe-try, and ev-e-ry verse in the Bi-ble. 4. At the be-gin-ning of pro-per names of all kinds : whe-ther of per-sons, as Tho-mas ; pla-ces, as Lon-don ; ships, as the Hope-well, &c.
Page 33 - Syllable diftincl: and clear, without a long drawling Tone. Let the Tone and Sound of your Voice in Reading, be the fame as it is in Speaking ; and do not...
Page 49 - God muft begin with a great Letter, as God, Lord, the Eternal, the Almighty ; and alfo the Son of God, the Holy Spirit.
Page 40 - Emphajis indifferently, to fignify the Strefs that muft be laid on any Word in a Sentence, becaufe both are ufually placed on the fame Syllable. Yet if it happen that there be a plain Oppofition between two Words in a Sentence, whereof one differs from the other but in part, as righteous and unrighteous ; form, and reform, or conform...