Introduction to the English Reader, Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Poetry: Calculated to Improve the Younger Classes of Learners in Reading, and to Imbue Their Minds with the Love of Virtue : to which are Added, Rules and Observations for Assisting Children to Read with ProprietyBenjamin Warner, 1816 - 166 pages |
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... give a few plain and simple rules , adapted to the younger classes of learners ; and to make some observations , calculated to rectify the errors which they are most apt to commit . These rules may be comprehended under the following ...
... give a few plain and simple rules , adapted to the younger classes of learners ; and to make some observations , calculated to rectify the errors which they are most apt to commit . These rules may be comprehended under the following ...
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... give spirit and propriety to pronunciation , due attention must be paid to accent , emphasis , and ca- dence . When we distinguish a syllable by a greater stress of the voice , it is called accent . When we thus distinguish any word in ...
... give spirit and propriety to pronunciation , due attention must be paid to accent , emphasis , and ca- dence . When we distinguish a syllable by a greater stress of the voice , it is called accent . When we thus distinguish any word in ...
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... give his words their full sound , or his hearers the full sense of them . This fault is not easily cured . The best means of mending it , is , to endeavour , both in conversation and reading , to pro- nounce every word in a deliberate ...
... give his words their full sound , or his hearers the full sense of them . This fault is not easily cured . The best means of mending it , is , to endeavour , both in conversation and reading , to pro- nounce every word in a deliberate ...
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... has better proof can we give of wisdom and goodness , than placed us ? An honest man , ( as Pope expresses himself , ) is the no- blest work of God . How pleasant it is , when we lie down at Chap . 1 . 19 Select Sentences , & c .
... has better proof can we give of wisdom and goodness , than placed us ? An honest man , ( as Pope expresses himself , ) is the no- blest work of God . How pleasant it is , when we lie down at Chap . 1 . 19 Select Sentences , & c .
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... gives , for all the honours and pleasures of a vain world ? Pride ( to use the emphatical words of a sacred writer ) was not made for man . ་ ་ 1 How can we spend our time foolishly , when we know that we must give an account hereafter ...
... gives , for all the honours and pleasures of a vain world ? Pride ( to use the emphatical words of a sacred writer ) was not made for man . ་ ་ 1 How can we spend our time foolishly , when we know that we must give an account hereafter ...
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animal Arachne array'd ARTABANES beauty behold betimes bird blessings blest bloom bosom bread breast Canute cheerful cries dear death delight Demetrius drink earth Euphronius ev'ry eyes father favour fear flowers fond fruit gentle giv'n give glory grace ground hand happiness Hast thou hear Heav'n heav'nly honour joys kind labour Lamb live longest day look Lord louis d'ors maid Maratan mind morning mother nature negroes never night o'er observed Offa op'ning parents passions peace PERCIVAL Perrin plain pleasure poor pow'r praise reign replied rest rich rill rise rose SECTION III SECTION VII shining shining hour silent tongue skies sleep smiling train Socrates soft sorrows soul spring storm of passion storms stranger stream sweet tears tempest tender thee ther thine thing thou e'er thro tree Tutor Twill virtue voice WATTS wings words young youth
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Page 133 - ... the world recedes it disappears heaven opens on my eyes my ears with sounds seraphic ring lend lend your wings i mount i fly o grave where is thy victory o death where is thy sting.
Page 82 - I then came home, and went whistling all over the house, much pleased with my whistle, but disturbing all the family.
Page 82 - Don't give too much for the whistle; and I saved my money.
Page 129 - But clear and artless pouring through the plain Health to the sick, and solace to the swain. Whose causeway parts the vale with shady rows ? Whose seats the weary traveller repose ? Who taught that heaven-directed spire to rise ? " The Man of Ross," each lisping babe replies. Behold the market-place with poor o'erspread ! The Man of Ross...
Page 102 - Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou liv'st Live well; how long or short, permit to Heaven: And now prepare thee for another sight.
Page 128 - HAPPY the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire ; Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter fire.
Page 116 - Rest, little young One, rest ; thou hast forgot the day When my father found thee first in places far away...
Page 129 - The young who labour and the old who rest. Is any sick ? the Man of Ross relieves, Prescribes, attends, the med'cine makes and gives. Is there a variance ? enter but his door, Balk'd are the courts, and contest is no more ; Despairing quacks with curses fled the place, And vile attorneys, now a useless race.
Page 49 - I am going to yield thee up ? To Europeans, who will tie thee close, — who will beat thee, — who will render thee miserable. Return with me, my beauty, my jewel, and rejoice the hearts of my children.
Page 136 - God. 4 Amazing knowledge, vast and great ! What large extent ! what lofty height ! My soul, with all the powers I boast, Is in the boundless prospect lost. 5 O ! may these thoughts possess my breast, Where'er I rove, where'er I rest : Nor let my weaker passions dare Consent to sin, for God is there.