 | Maria Edgeworth - Child rearing - 1801 - 366 pages
...circumstances. In the first lesson of the spelling-book, the child begins with ab, makes ab ; ba makes ba. The inference, if any general inference can be drawn...b, it has another sound ; but this is contradicted by and by, and it appears that a after b, has various sounds, as in ball, in bat, in bare . The letter... | |
 | Education - 1827 - 554 pages
...circumstances. In the first lesson of the Spelling Book, the child begins with " ab makes ab ; ba makes ba." The inference, if any general inference can be drawn...b, it has another sound ; but this is contradicted by and by, and it appears that a after 6 has various sounds, as in 1>atl, in bat, in bare. The letter... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth - Education - 1835 - 574 pages
...circumstances. In the first lesson of the spelling-book, the child begins with ab makes ab ; ba makes ba. The inference, if any general inference can be drawn...another sound ; but this is contradicted by-and-by, and it appears that a after b has various sounds, as in ball, in bat, in bare. The letter i in fire, is... | |
 | Robert Sullivan - Education - 1843 - 50 pages
...circumstances. In the first lesson of the spelling-book the child begins with ab makes ab ; ba makes ba. The inference, if any general inference can be drawn...b it has another sound ; but this is contradicted by and by. and it appears that a after b has various sounds, as in ball, in tat, in tare. The letter... | |
 | Periodicals - 1844 - 288 pages
...circumstances. In the first lesson of the spelling book, the child begins with ab makes ah, ba makes ba. The inference, if any general inference can be drawn...b it has another sound ; but this is contradicted byand-hye, and it appears that a after b has various sounds, as in ball, in bat, in bare. The letter... | |
 | Joshua Frederick Denham - 1848 - 192 pages
...In the first lesson in the Spelling-book the child begins with a, b, makes ab, — b, a, makes ba. The inference, if any general inference can be drawn from this lesson, is that when a comes before 6, it has one sound, and that after b it has another sound. But this is contradicted by and by, and... | |
 | Henrietta Williamson - 1852 - 166 pages
...circumstances. In the first lesson of the Spelling Book the child begins with ab makes ab ; ba makes ba. The inference, if any general inference can be drawn...b it has another sound : but this is contradicted by and by, and it appears that a after b has various sounds, as in ball, in bat, in bare. .... A moment's... | |
 | Education - 1857 - 1266 pages
...circumstances. In the first lesson of the spelling book the child begins with ab makes ab ; ba makes ba. The inference, if any general inference can be drawn...when a comes before b it has one sound, and after h it has another sound ; but this is contradicted by and by, and it appears that a after Л has various... | |
 | John Relly Beard - 1860 - 202 pages
..."In the first lesson in the Spelling-book the child begins with a, b, makes ab,- — 6, a, makes ba. The inference, if any general inference can be drawn from this lesson, is, that when a comes before 6, it has one sound, and that after b it has another sound. But this is contradicted by and by, and... | |
 | Education - 1862 - 752 pages
...circumstances. In the first lesson of the spelling-book, the child begins with ab makes ab ; ba makes ba. The inference, if any general inference can be drawn from this lesson, is, that when a comes before 4 it has one sound, and after b it has another sound ; but this is contradicted by-aud-bye, and it... | |
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To begin with the vowels : each of these have several different sounds, and, consequently, ought to have several names, or different signs, to distinguish them in different circumstances. In the first lesson of the spelling-book, the child begins with... 
