THE ENGLISH READERManahan, Hoag & Company, 1827 |
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... common difficulties in learning to read well are obviated . When the learner has acquired a habit of reading such sentences with justness and facility , he will readily apply that habit , and the improvements he has made , to sentences ...
... common difficulties in learning to read well are obviated . When the learner has acquired a habit of reading such sentences with justness and facility , he will readily apply that habit , and the improvements he has made , to sentences ...
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... common conversation , and which he should generally use in reading to others . For it is a great mistake , to ima- gine that one must take the highest pitch of his voice , in order to be well heard in a large company . This is ...
... common conversation , and which he should generally use in reading to others . For it is a great mistake , to ima- gine that one must take the highest pitch of his voice , in order to be well heard in a large company . This is ...
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... too fast is much more common ; and requires the more to be guarded against , because , when it has grown into a habit , few errors are more difficult to be corrected . To pronounce INTRODUCTION . $ 5 Earthquake at Catanea,
... too fast is much more common ; and requires the more to be guarded against , because , when it has grown into a habit , few errors are more difficult to be corrected . To pronounce INTRODUCTION . $ 5 Earthquake at Catanea,
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... common discourse . Many per- sons err in this respect . When they read to others , and with solemnity , they pronounce the syllables in a different manner from what they do at other times . They dwell upon them , and protract them ...
... common discourse . Many per- sons err in this respect . When they read to others , and with solemnity , they pronounce the syllables in a different manner from what they do at other times . They dwell upon them , and protract them ...
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... common discourse ; and even sometimes throw it upon words so very trifling in them- selves , that it is evidently done with no other view , than to give a greater variety to the modulation . Notwithstanding this diversity of practice ...
... common discourse ; and even sometimes throw it upon words so very trifling in them- selves , that it is evidently done with no other view , than to give a greater variety to the modulation . Notwithstanding this diversity of practice ...
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Common terms and phrases
Antiparos appear Archbishop of Cambray attention Bayle beauty behold BLAIR blessing bliss breast Caius Verres cheerful dark death delight Democritus Dioclesian distress divine dread earth enjoy enjoyment envy eternal ev'ry evil eyes father favour fear feel folly fortune friendship Fundanus give ground hand happiness hast Hazael heart heav'n Heraclitus honour hope human indulge innocence Jugurtha kind king labours live look mankind mercy Micipsa mind misery nature nature's never night noble lords Numidia o'er pain Pamphylia passions pause peace perfect person pleasures possession pow'r praise present pride prince proper Pythias racter religion render rest riches rise Roman Roman Senate scene SECTION sense shade shine Sicily smiles solitude sorrow soul sound spect spirit spring sweet tears temper tempest thee things thought tion truth Tuning sweet vanity virtue virtuous voice wisdom wise youth
Popular passages
Page 214 - Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn, , Sure pledge of day, that crown'st the smiling morn With thy bright circlet, praise Him in thy sphere, While day arises, that sweet hour of prime.
Page 183 - With thee conversing I forget all time ; All seasons and their change, all please alike. Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds...
Page 219 - THE Lord my pasture shall prepare, •And feed me with a shepherd's care ; His presence shall my wants supply, And guard me with a watchful eye ; My noonday walks he shall attend, And all my midnight hours defend.
Page 173 - The Epitaph Here rests his head upon the lap of Earth A Youth, to Fortune and to Fame unknown; Fair Science frown'd not on his humble birth, And Melancholy mark'd him for her own.
Page 23 - A soft answer turneth away wrath : but grievous words stir up anger.
Page 220 - Soon as the evening shades prevail, The Moon takes up the wondrous tale; And nightly, to the listening Earth, Repeats the story of her birth : Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets, in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Page 207 - And darkness and doubt are now flying away ; No longer I roam in conjecture forlorn. So breaks on the traveller, faint, and astray, The bright and the balmy effulgence of morn. See Truth, Love, and Mercy, in triumph descending, And nature all glowing in Eden's first bloom ! On the cold cheek of Death smiles and roses are blending, And Beauty immortal awakes from the tomb.
Page 232 - If I am right, Thy grace impart, Still in the right to stay ; If I am wrong, oh, teach my heart To find that better way.
Page 225 - Hope humbly then ; with trembling pinions soar ; Wait the great teacher death, and God adore. What future bliss, he gives not thee to know, But gives that hope to be thy blessing now. Hope springs eternal in the human breast : Man never is, but always to be blest.
Page 238 - Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent ; Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part, As full, as perfect in a hair as heart ; As full, as perfect in vile man that mourns, As the rapt seraph that adores and burns. To Him no high, no low, no great, no small ; He fills, He bounds, connects and equals all.