Elementary Lessons, Being a Course of Instruction for the Deaf & Dumb, 2. osaEgbert, Hovey & King, 1849 |
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... horses can run four miles in less than eight minutes . Not Less . Not More . D. will not take less than one hundred dollars for his horse . Mr. T. is two days . very sick . He cannot live more than Few men are less than five feet high ...
... horses can run four miles in less than eight minutes . Not Less . Not More . D. will not take less than one hundred dollars for his horse . Mr. T. is two days . very sick . He cannot live more than Few men are less than five feet high ...
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... horses go in herds of five or six hundred . The steam frigate Fulton blew up at the Navy Yard in 1829 , and between thirty and forty persons were killed . Can you lend me three or four shillings ? I have only a shilling or two . It is ...
... horses go in herds of five or six hundred . The steam frigate Fulton blew up at the Navy Yard in 1829 , and between thirty and forty persons were killed . Can you lend me three or four shillings ? I have only a shilling or two . It is ...
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... horses could not draw that ship out of the water . Other numbers are often used indefinitely , Five hundred men could not carry that rock , One lion can kill twenty dogs . One good horse is worth fifty sheep . A Number of Numbers of ...
... horses could not draw that ship out of the water . Other numbers are often used indefinitely , Five hundred men could not carry that rock , One lion can kill twenty dogs . One good horse is worth fifty sheep . A Number of Numbers of ...
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... ago . A year ago . Five years ago . A month ago yesterday . Ten years ago this day , & c . Examples . The locomotive just now passed the bridge . It lightened a moment ago . The Indians lived here a great while ago . Horses 50 TIME .
... ago . A year ago . Five years ago . A month ago yesterday . Ten years ago this day , & c . Examples . The locomotive just now passed the bridge . It lightened a moment ago . The Indians lived here a great while ago . Horses 50 TIME .
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Harvey Prindle Peet. The Indians lived here a great while ago . Horses were caught and tamed long ago . I received a letter from my sister three or four days ago . Mrs. P. died ten or twelve years ago . Mr. E. went to the city half an ...
Harvey Prindle Peet. The Indians lived here a great while ago . Horses were caught and tamed long ago . I received a letter from my sister three or four days ago . Mrs. P. died ten or twelve years ago . Mr. E. went to the city half an ...
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31 days Abstract Nouns acre Adjectives Adverbs Albany apple asked avoirdupois bird brother bushels carriage caught cents color corn deaf and dumb deaf mutes died dollars Dry Measure eight English shilling Examples farmer father feet fell fifty fire fish five foot four gentleman girl Give half half dime hence horse hour hundred Indians John John hurt killed lady Laura Bridgman Lesson live lost married mile minutes Miss Monday month morning New-York New-York city Numbers one's ounce Participles Peter phrases poor pound sterling pounds Prepositions Preterite pupils quart quarter rain river Robert rods sheep shillings ship shot sick sister sixpence sold sometimes Spring square square mile summer Sunday Take teacher tell thousand to-morrow Tom Thumb town tree Troy Weight twenty Verbs wagon walk weather winter wish woman write yards yesterday young
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Page 78 - A little neglect may breed great mischief; for want of a nail the shoe was lost ; for want of a shoe the horse was lost ; and for want of a horse the rider was lost,' being overtaken and slain by the enemy ; all for want of a little care about a horse-shoe nail.
Page 43 - Time 60 seconds 1 imnutf, 60 minutes 1 hour. 24 hours 1 day. 7 days 1 week. 4 weeks 1 lunar month.
Page 38 - Dry Measure. — 2 pints = 1 quart; 8 quarts = 1 peck; 4 pecks = 1 bushel.
Page 46 - Philadelphia struck for a laboring day from six in the morning to six in the evening, with an hour for breakfast and another for dinner; assaulted those who would not join them, and raised a riot the mayor found it difficult to put dovn.
Page 377 - Since writing the above, I have been happy to find this opinion confirmed by the high authority of Dr. Peet. He says in his note to the second part of the course of instruction, p. 377 : " Next to a knowledge of written language a knowledge of arithmetic is of the very highest importance in the daily business of life to the deaf mute as to other men. This branch of study has been too much neglected in schools for the deaf and dumb. Besides its great practical utility in after life, it...
Page 33 - MONEY. 4 farthings = 1 penny. 12 pence = 1 shilling. 20 shillings = 1 pound.
Page 36 - Measure. 3 barley corns (bc) make 1 inch, marked in. 12 inches, 1 foot, ft. . 3 feet, 1 yard, yd. 5J yards, 1 rod, pole, or perch, rd.
Page 79 - You and I ought not to die before we have explained ourselves to each other." John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died on the same day, July 4, 1826, the 50th anniversary of adoption of the Declaration of Independence. Adams's last words: "Thomas Jefferson still survives.
Page 14 - ... five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen sixteen seventeen eighteen nineteen twenty Figures. Letters. 21 XXI twenty-one 22- XXII twenty-two 23 XXIII twenty-three 30 XXX thirty 40 XL forty 50 L fifty 60 LX sixty 70 LXX seventy 80 LXXX eighty 90 XC ninety 100 C one hundred 200 CC two hundred 300 CCC three hundred 400 CCCC four hundred 500 D five hundred . 600 DC six hundred 700 DCC seven hundred 800 DCCC eight hundred 900 DCCCC nine hundred 1000 M one thousand SPELLING-BOOK.
Page 260 - ... drew the trigger, his horse gave a start of terror, and the hunter missed his aim. The lion sprang forward; but, finding that the man stood still — for he had no time either to remount his horse, or take to his heels — the lion stopped within a few paces and stood still