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4th inst ALPHABET DRILL AMERICAN CREED anaconda bamboo bamboo clump become broad-leaved plants BUSINESS LETTERS cent circle-vowels clump of bamboos comp consonants Contralto DEAR SIR dedicated diamond eye diphthongs DOUBLE CONSONANTS earth Exercise 11 Exercise 9 favor full alphabetic form FULL FORM PREFERABLE glittering diamond happy hopped immense Key to Reading Key to Writing larity last full measure legible lengthened G LESSON live long 66 long word longhand Master Gouti medial and final ment minutes mistakes mountain brook never partially shaded powers prefix RAILROAD BOOK-KEEPING Reading Exercise red cavern red mouth respectfully shaded to imply short 66 shorthand sorrow stenographer There's the laugh things truly vehicles and animals vowels wholly shaded word-signs Writing Exercise written in full برد سما کر له لو ما مو ومر
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Page 84 - It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us ; that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion ; that we here highly resolve that...
Page 86 - WHEN IN THE COURSE of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
Page 84 - Now we are engaged in a great civil war testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We are met to dedicate a portion of it as the final resting-place of those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
Page 84 - The world will very little note, nor long remember, what we say here ; but it can never forget what they did here.
Page 78 - The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between men, between the feeble and the powerful, the great and the insignificant, is energy — invincible determination ; a purpose once fixed and then death or victory. That quality will do anything that can be done in this world, and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities, will make a two-legged creature a man without it.
Page 73 - Sun standing upon the threshold, looking forth, like a prince in bright armor, upon his kingdom. The blue •walls of heaven, built up in the heavy masonry of night, parted, without a crash, nay, even, without the soft and silken rustle of a curtain. The lights aloft, were put out, one after another, to give effect to the scene ; the gates of red gold swung back, noiselessly as the parting of soft lips in dreams, and a threshold and hall inlaid with pearl, were disclosed. There was a flush, a gleam,...
Page 61 - HEARTS good and true Have wishes few In narrow circles bounded, And hope that lives On what God gives Is Christian hope well founded. Small things are best; Grief and unrest To rank and wealth are given; But little things On little wings Bear little souls to heaven.
Page 77 - THE first person who comes In when the whole world has gone out. A bank of credit on which we can draw supplies of confidence, counsel, sympathy, help, and love.
Page 103 - Men differ in their genius and preceptions, and every pupil has his own peculiar views and ideas. Difficulties present themselves to some minds which never occur to others, and which no writer on the subject can anticipate. It is impossible, in a public treatise, to lay down rules and explanations adapted to the capacities, and satisfactory to the understandings of all, who may endeavour to learn it. A master however, has it in his power to give such minute and personal instructions as cannot fail...