An Introduction to the Third Book for Reading and SpellingHickling, Swan & Brewer, 1857 |
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An Introduction to the Third Book for Reading and Spelling Samuel Worcester No preview available - 2015 |
An Introduction to the Third Book for Reading and Spelling Samuel Worcester No preview available - 2018 |
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abbreviations Abby Tracy acrost almshouse Amy's appear articulation asked AVOIDED babe beech-nut birds bread Charles child churn clothes cloze comfort cottage Daisy dear diphthong early Elocution English language enunciation evil exercises father fault feel felt flock flowers Forrester Franklin friends George and Edward give Green happy heard heart heerd Henry horse inflection James kind kite knew lamb larn Laura lawr LESSON letter little fellow little girl look Lord Lucy Lucy Robinson morning Morrison mother never Old Nanny old woman Orthoepy otter parents Philip poor pretty pronounced pronunciation quail QUESTIONS Rose SAMUEL WORCESTER scholar Selby Seymour shepherd sick sister sometimes soon sound unaccented speak stop story syllables Teacher tell things THIRD BOOK thought thrush tion told took trees vowel walk Walker's notation wife wish words
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Page 73 - If then God so clothe the grass, which is to-day in the field, and to-morrow is cast into the oven, how much more will he clothe you, O ye of little faith ? And seek not ye what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, neither be ye of doubtful mind.
Page 54 - Nor is it less pleased with its first successful endeavours to walk, or rather to run (which precedes walking), although entirely ignorant of the importance of the attainment to its future life, and even without applying it to any present purpose. A child is delighted with speaking, without having anything to say ; and with walking, without knowing where to go. And prior to both these, I am disposed to believe that the -waking hours of infancy are agreeably taken up with the exercise of vision, or...
Page 183 - Coming ere the spring-time, To tell of sunny hours, While the trees are leafless, While the fields are bare, Buttercups and daisies Spring up here and there.
Page 184 - What to them is weather? What are stormy showers? Buttercups and daisies Are these human flowers! He who gave them hardship And a life of care, Gave them likewise hardy strength And patient hearts to bear.
Page 109 - And the milky beech-nut is his bread and his wine. In the joy of his nature he frisks with a bound To the topmost twigs, and then down to the ground ; Then up again, like a winged thing, And from tree to tree with a vaulting spring ; Then he sits up aloft, and looks waggish and queer, As if he would say :
Page 219 - Move a kindly sympathy, With their wishes hopes and fears ; With their laughter and their tears ; With their wonder so intense, And their small experience ! Little children, not alone On the wide earth are ye known.
Page 220 - Do unto others as ye would that they should do unto you " ? That was the doctrine of Lao-tsze.
Page 109 - But small as he is, he knows he may want, In the bleak winter weather, when food is scant; So he finds a hole in an old tree's. core, And there makes his nest, and lays up his store.
Page 184 - Little hardy flowers, like to children poor Playing in their sturdy health by their mother's door...
Page 54 - The young of all animals appear to me to receive pleasure simply from the exercise of their limbs and bodily faculties, without reference to any end to be attained, or any use to be answered by the exertion. A child without knowing anything of the use of language, is in a high degree delighted with being able to speak.