Elementary Lessons, Being a Course of Instruction for the Deaf & Dumb, 2. osaEgbert, Hovey & King, 1849 |
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... Look , gesture , sign , & c . , Abstract Nouns from Verbs , " " sounds , expressing Lesson . Page . · - 131 198 132 200 · 133 202 135 135 Classification of Abstract Nouns ac- cording to construction . Phrases used as Adjectives , 136 ...
... Look , gesture , sign , & c . , Abstract Nouns from Verbs , " " sounds , expressing Lesson . Page . · - 131 198 132 200 · 133 202 135 135 Classification of Abstract Nouns ac- cording to construction . Phrases used as Adjectives , 136 ...
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... looks in her glass twenty times a day . I have been to Boston once , to Philadelphia twice . I have seen Mr. B. a hundred times . I like oranges , but do not eat them often . The boys swim in the river now and then . ' The teacher will ...
... looks in her glass twenty times a day . I have been to Boston once , to Philadelphia twice . I have seen Mr. B. a hundred times . I like oranges , but do not eat them often . The boys swim in the river now and then . ' The teacher will ...
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... look for worms . Upside down . Wrong end foremost . Inside out . Wrong side up . Sideways . Wrong side out . There is a wagon upside down in the road , and an old woman crying for her broken eggs . Her horse ran away and overturned the ...
... look for worms . Upside down . Wrong end foremost . Inside out . Wrong side up . Sideways . Wrong side out . There is a wagon upside down in the road , and an old woman crying for her broken eggs . Her horse ran away and overturned the ...
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... Look up . Mr. N.'s children are all grown up . Put out . Go out . Hold out , & c . Prudent people put out the fire before they go to bed . I fear this old horse will not hold out till we get home . Don't put on more wood . Let the fire ...
... Look up . Mr. N.'s children are all grown up . Put out . Go out . Hold out , & c . Prudent people put out the fire before they go to bed . I fear this old horse will not hold out till we get home . Don't put on more wood . Let the fire ...
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... look for rain or snow . 1t is bright in the East before sunrise , and red in the West after sunset . Mr. W. has returned from the West . The city is South of the Institution . Which way is the rail - road from the Institution . The ...
... look for rain or snow . 1t is bright in the East before sunrise , and red in the West after sunset . Mr. W. has returned from the West . The city is South of the Institution . Which way is the rail - road from the Institution . The ...
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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