A spelling and reading book, upon new principles, Volume 3 |
Common terms and phrases
al i ty ance bil i ty cal ly cate cen cy cence cent ceous Christian chro cial cious duc tion ence fac tion fi ca tion g hard lar i ty LESSON letters li na log i cal lu tion mat i cal ment mind mis sion nate nature ol o gy persons ra ble ra phy ra tion ra tor ri ous rous sion sive ta ble ta tion tate tial tion cir tion con tion dis tion ex tion pre tion rec tion sub tious tism tive ex ture u a tion words
Popular passages
Page 144 - I profess, likewise, that in the mass there is offered to God a true, proper, and propitiatory sacrifice for the living and the dead ; and that in the most holy sacrament of the eucharist, there is truly, really, and substantially, the body and blood, together with the soul and divinity, of our Lord Jesus Christ...
Page 110 - If these writings of the Greeks agree with the book of God, they are useless and need not be preserved : if they disagree, they are pernicious and ought to be destroyed.
Page 140 - A certain bird is termed the Cuckoo, from the sound which it emits. When one sort of wind is said to whistle, and another to roar; when a serpent is said to hiss ; a fly to buz, and falling timber to crash ; when a stream is said to flow, and hail to rattle; the analogy between the word and the thing signified is plainly discernible.
Page 33 - And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
Page 158 - Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles which thou doest, except God be with him.
Page 144 - Eucharist there is truly, really, and substantially the Body and Blood, together with the soul and divinity, of our Lord Jesus Christ ; and that there is made a conversion of the whole substance of the bread into the Body, and of the whole of the substance of the wine into the Blood; which conversion the Catholic Church calleth Transubstantiation.
Page 72 - Holland, which he was inquisitive after, amongst other things told him, that the water in his country would sometimes, in cold weather, be so hard, that men walked upon it, and that it would bear an elephant if he were there.
Page 154 - I say that, if one train of thinking be more desirable than another, it is that which regards the phenomena of nature with a constant reference to a supreme intelligent Author. To have made this the ruling, the habitual sentiment of our minds, is to have laid the foundation of everything which is religious. The world thenceforth becomes a temple, and life itself one continued act of adoration.
Page iv - ... managed, it is a dreadful task indeed to learn, and if possible a more dreadful task to teach to read: with the help of counters, and coaxing, and gingerbread, or by dint of reiterated pain and terror, the names of the...
Page v - The amphibious letter y, which is either a vowel or a consonant, has one sound in one character, and two sounds in the other; as a consonant, it is pronounced as in yesterday ; in try, it is sounded as i; in any, and in the termination of many other words, it is sounded like e. Must a child know all this by intuition, or must it be whipped into him ? But he must know a great deal more before he can read the most common words.