ba-rd, ba-rds, hea-rd'st.

su-rf, wha-rf'd.

bu-rgh, bu-rghs.

ba-rge, u-rg'd.

ha-rk, ba-rk'd, a-rcs, ba-rk'st, ba-rk'd'st.

sna-rl, hu-rl'd, sna-rls, sna-rl'st, sna-rl'd'st.

a-rm, a-rm'd, a-rms, a-rm'st,
a-rm'd'st.

bu-rn, bu-rn'd, bu-rnt, u-rns,
ea-rn'st, ea-rn'd'st.
ha-rp, ha-rp'd, ha-rps.
hea-rse, fea-r'st, bu-rsts.
hea-rt, hea-rts, hu-rt'st.

rv. rud. ruz. as in cu-rve, cu-rv'd, cu-rves, cu-ro'st,

rust. rvdst.

rx. rxt.

rz.

rch. rcht.

rsh.

cu-rv'd'st.

fo-rks, ma-rk'st.

e-rrs.

sea-rch, sea-rch'd.

ha-rsh.

Before the student proceeds to reading and declamation, we recommend that he should exercise himself upon the following short sentences. They are selected for the purpose of giving facility and precision of articulation in the use of the combinations in the foregoing tables; and some of the most difficult combinations are frequently repeated in them.

And surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. Burke. The evening was fine and the full orb'd moon shone with uncommon splendor.

"Till that a capable and wide revenge swallow them up. Shakspeare.

He was incapable of a mean or questionable action. He was amiable,* respectable, formidable, unbearable, intolerable, unmanageable, terrible.

He was branded as a traitor.

Thou prob'st my wound, instead of healing it.

Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide.

But Ruth clave unto her.

Create a soul under the ribs of death.

Gentlemen may cry peace.

Can you say crackers, crime, cruelty, crutches.

It was an affair of pic-nicks.

It was the act of all the acts of government the most objectionable.

* The syllables, ble, ple, cle, &c. are hardly ever pronounced at the end of long words with sufficient distinctness and force, to be heard through an extensive space.

The government of England is a mixed government.

The spin-dle and the loom.

We saw on the road, large droves of cattle.

His deeds speak his praise.

The breadth thereof was ten cubits.

What thou wouldst highly, that wouldst thou holily.

They next reef'd the top-sails.

If I quench thee thou flaming Minister.
A frame of adamant-a soul of fire.

No dangers fright him and no labors tire.
He laughs at me.

Thou look'st from thy throne in the clouds, and laugh'st at the storm.

He begged pardon for having troubled the house so long.

The glow-worm shows the matin to be near.
The table groans beneath its burthen..

Arm it with rags a pigmy straw will pierce it.
Thou wagg'st thy tongue in vain.
He was hedged in on every side.

Racked with whirlwinds.
Well done said my uncle Toby.
Victory will weaken the enemy.

Think'st thou so meanly of my Phocion.
Where does the river Elbe arise?

We frequently saw the elk in our journey.

Cry hold, hold.

The wolf, whose howl's his watch.

I prefer the elm to the oak.

Fall'n, fall'n, fall'n, fall'n, fall'n from his high estate. There was no help for it.

He watch'd and wept, he felt and prayed for all.

If this were a wilfully false account of Mr. Hastings, the author deserves the severest punishment.

It was a species of calx which he shewed me.

Halls of Assembly.

The word filch is of doubtful derivation.

Then if thou fall'st, O! Cromwell, thou fall'st a

blessed martyr.

Health is indispensible to the soldier.

Those who lie entombed in the public monuments.
The attempt, and not the deed, confounds us.

The tombs of our ancestors.

But truth and liberty and virtue, would fall with him.

The song began from Jove.

Do you mean plain or playing cards?

The range of the vallies is his pasture.

He was the first ambassador sent from Colombia. Swords and pens were eagerly employed in its defence.

I do not flinch from the argument.

He never winced for it hurt not him.

Mind you do not singe your gown.

Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow.

Nipt in the bud.

Thou found'st me poor at first and keep'st me so.

The green herb was his food.

We constructed an arc, and began our voyage without

delay.

The surf beat heavily.

The word burgh signifies a town or city that sends a member or members to parliament.