Analytical Fourth [-sixth] Reader: Containing Practical Directions for Reading ... Designed for the Use of Classes in Common SchoolsTaintor & Company, 1867 |
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... hand press firmly against the upper part of the throat , just beneath the roots of the tongue . Maintaining the same position , sound t ; you merely impel the breath ; to utter d , the breath is made to give forth a semi - musical sound ...
... hand press firmly against the upper part of the throat , just beneath the roots of the tongue . Maintaining the same position , sound t ; you merely impel the breath ; to utter d , the breath is made to give forth a semi - musical sound ...
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... hând for hand , ẽp for up , and ôn for on . Analyze each of the following lists , and tell what error is likely to occur in uttering the accented vowel : 1. Can , land , hand , pallid , stand , back , bag , famine , baggard . 2. Torrent ...
... hând for hand , ẽp for up , and ôn for on . Analyze each of the following lists , and tell what error is likely to occur in uttering the accented vowel : 1. Can , land , hand , pallid , stand , back , bag , famine , baggard . 2. Torrent ...
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... hand , me - et ( or me - ut ) for met . Whichever the error , the corrective is this , a quick , decisive pronunciation . No pains should be spared to acquire this , not only in recitation , but as a habit of speech . ― Orthoëpists do ...
... hand , me - et ( or me - ut ) for met . Whichever the error , the corrective is this , a quick , decisive pronunciation . No pains should be spared to acquire this , not only in recitation , but as a habit of speech . ― Orthoëpists do ...
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... hand , and freedom from ambiguity on the other this sail ; his tears ; his precepts are recorded ; last still night ; lasts till night ; from more than nine ; all left this city ; God's commands . Write and Analyze stagger , phlegmatic ...
... hand , and freedom from ambiguity on the other this sail ; his tears ; his precepts are recorded ; last still night ; lasts till night ; from more than nine ; all left this city ; God's commands . Write and Analyze stagger , phlegmatic ...
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... hand , the pupil must avoid a slavish sacrifice of the sense to the mere rhythm , which is shown by a strongly marked pause at the end of each line ; and on the other hand , the poetry must not be read as if it were prose , but the ...
... hand , the pupil must avoid a slavish sacrifice of the sense to the mere rhythm , which is shown by a strongly marked pause at the end of each line ; and on the other hand , the poetry must not be read as if it were prose , but the ...
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Abraham Lincoln accented breath Cæsar called character cheerfulness circumflex clause cognate consonants constitution Crowfield digraph diphthong earth element Emphatic words Etymology and meaning exercise expression eyes falling inflection fear force Give the etymology Greece group of words hand hath hear heard heart heaven heritage hold in fee honor human Inchcape Rock inflection IRISH FAMINE king labor last line laws LESSON liberty list of consonants living look man's meant merry mind moderate never noble non-sonant numbers o'er Oliver Cromwell paragraph pass patriotism pauses phatic Phonic pitch positive statement Pronounce questions Represent require rising inflection sentence sonant sound spirit spoken stanza stars stress syllable teacher tell thee things thou thought tion tones tongue Tycho Brahe utterance voice vowel Webster Webster's Dictionary Write and Analyze zounds
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Page 114 - Wept o'er his wounds, or tales of sorrow done, Shouldered his crutch, and showed how fields were won. Pleased with his guests, the good man learned to glow, And quite forgot their vices in their woe ; Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began.
Page 361 - Work - work work Till the brain begins to swim! Work - work - work Till the eyes are heavy and dim! Seam , and gusset , and band , Band , and gusset , and seam , Till over the buttons I fall asleep, And sew them on in a dream! "O men with sisters dear! O men with mothers and wives! It is not linen you're wearing out , But human creatures
Page 253 - Towards the preservation of your government, and the permanency of your present happy state, it is requisite, not only that you steadily discountenance irregular oppositions to its acknowledged authority, but also that you resist with care the spirit of innovation upon its principles however specious the pretexts.
Page 115 - Beside the bed where parting life was laid, And sorrow, guilt, and pain, by turns dismayed, The reverend champion stood. At his control, Despair and anguish fled the struggling soul ; Comfort came down the trembling wretch to raise And his last faltering accents whispered praise.
Page 404 - Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free ; They touch our country, and their shackles fall.
Page 59 - tis said, when all were fired, Filled with fury, rapt, inspired, From the supporting myrtles round They snatched her instruments of sound ; And, as they oft had heard apart Sweet lessons of her forceful art, Each (for Madness ruled the hour) Would prove his own expressive power.
Page 252 - This Government, the offspring of our own choice, uninfluenced and unawed, adopted upon full investigation and mature deliberation, completely free in its principles, in the distribution of its powers, uniting security with energy, and containing within itself a provision for its own amendment, has a just claim to your confidence and your support.
Page 137 - That there wasn'ta chance for one to start. For the wheels were just as strong as the thills, And the floor was just as strong as the sills, And the panels just as strong as the floor, And the whippletree neither less nor more, And the back cross-bar as strong as the fore, And spring and axle and hub encore.
Page 252 - All obstructions to the execution of the laws, all combinations and associations, under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, control, counteract, or awe the regular deliberation and action of the constituted authorities, are destructive of this fundamental principle and of fatal tendency.
Page 404 - Lands intersected by a narrow frith Abhor each other. Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one.