A New Pronouncing Spelling Book, and Concise Expositor of the English Language: For the Use of Academies and Schools ... : to which is Prefixed an Abstract of the Principles of English Pronunciation with an Appendix Containing Several Useful Tables and Some Lessons in Reading |
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... selected by Mr. M'Do . nald appear also to us to be particularly well adapted for the mind when , it first begins to unfold it's powers ; one and on- ly one definition being here given , the young scholar IV RECOMMENDATORY LETTERS .
... selected by Mr. M'Do . nald appear also to us to be particularly well adapted for the mind when , it first begins to unfold it's powers ; one and on- ly one definition being here given , the young scholar IV RECOMMENDATORY LETTERS .
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... letters , of diphthongs and trip- thongs , of orthography , of the laws of simple and compound , of primitive and derivative words , of the rules for retaining or retrenching the e finalin compound words , of the termina- tions able and ...
... letters , of diphthongs and trip- thongs , of orthography , of the laws of simple and compound , of primitive and derivative words , of the rules for retaining or retrenching the e finalin compound words , of the termina- tions able and ...
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... LETTERS . Letters are the first principles of pronunciation ; the let ters of the English Alphabet are in number twenty six.- These are divided into vowels and consonants - the vowels are , a e io u and y and w , when they end a ...
... LETTERS . Letters are the first principles of pronunciation ; the let ters of the English Alphabet are in number twenty six.- These are divided into vowels and consonants - the vowels are , a e io u and y and w , when they end a ...
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... letter is the first principle or the least , part of a word , letters compose syllables , and syllables compose words ; words compose sentences , and sentences rightly combined together , form a discourse ; so by these few elementary ...
... letter is the first principle or the least , part of a word , letters compose syllables , and syllables compose words ; words compose sentences , and sentences rightly combined together , form a discourse ; so by these few elementary ...
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... letters in genera !, very much depends upon their position and con- nection with other letters . CHAPT , 2 . OF SYLLABLES , A syllable is a sound simple or compound , pronounced by an im pulse of the human voice , for ming a word or ...
... letters in genera !, very much depends upon their position and con- nection with other letters . CHAPT , 2 . OF SYLLABLES , A syllable is a sound simple or compound , pronounced by an im pulse of the human voice , for ming a word or ...
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Page 149 - Romans, countrymen, and lovers! hear me for my cause ; and be silent that you may hear : believe me for mine honour; and have respect to mine honour, that you may believe: censure me in your wisdom; and awake your senses that you may the better judge. If there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of Caesar's, to him I say, that Brutus' love to Caesar was no less than his.
Page 144 - Wept o'er his wounds or tales of sorrow done, Shouldered his crutch, and showed how fields were won. Pleased with his guests, the good man learned to glow, And quite forgot their vices in their woe ; Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began.
Page 146 - Which he did thrice refuse. Was this ambition? Yet Brutus says he was ambitious ; And sure, he is an honourable man. I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke ; But here I am to speak what I do know. You all did love him once, not without cause : What cause withholds you then to mourn for him? O judgment, thou art fled to brutish beasts^ And men have lost their reason.
Page 147 - I am no orator, as Brutus is; But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man, That love my friend; and that they know full well That gave me public leave to speak of him. For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech, To stir men's blood: I only speak right on...
Page 153 - ... his children — But here my heart began to bleed, and I was forced to go on with another part of the portrait.
Page 153 - LIBERTY, whom all in public or in private worship, whose taste is grateful, and ever will be so, till NATURE herself shall change no tint of words can spot thy snowy mantle or...
Page 144 - ... country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year ; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to...
Page 154 - I heard his chains upon his legs, as he turned his body to lay his little stick upon the bundle. He gave a deep sigh. — I saw the iron enter into his soul! — I burst into tears. — I could not sustain the picture of confinement which my fancy had drawn.
Page 143 - Who builds a church to God, and not to fame, Will never mark the marble with his name...
Page 146 - When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept; Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honorable man. You all did see, that on the Lupercal I thrice presented him a kingly crown, Which he did thrice refuse. Was this ambition ? Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And sure, he is an honorable man.