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32 inches ablative accusative action adjective adverbs agglutinative agglutinative language analytic languages aorist APPLETON base breath called Chinese common compound consonants dative denote derived dialects different forms distinct distinguished dropped E. A. FREEMAN England English words European example express formative suffix French genitive Gothic grammar Greek and Latin guage heard High German Icelandic idea ideography Indo-European Indo-European language inflectional instrumental Keltic Latin lips literature locative Low German meaning meant modern momentary mouth natural nominative noun object Old English Old High German older form oldest original palate participle pass perfect perhaps personal suffixes phonetic plural predicate preposition present PRIMERS principle probably pronounced Reader reason recognise reduplication Romans root rule Sanskrit seen sense sentence singular sometimes sound speak speech spoken subjunctive suffix syllable syntax synthetic languages tenses Teutonic Teutonic language thing thought tion tongue trace verb voice vowel
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Page 8 - If we should fail? Lady M. We fail! But screw your courage to the sticking-place, And we'll not fail. When Duncan is asleep — Whereto the rather shall his day's hard journey Soundly invite him — his two chamberlains Will I with wine and wassail so convince That memory, the warder of the brain, Shall be a fume, and the receipt of reason A limbeck only...
Page 176 - Modern History, containing the Rise and Progress of the Principal European Nations, their Political History, and the Changes in their Social Condition, with a History of the Colonies founded by Europeans. By W. COOKE TAYLOR, LL D., of Trinity College, Dublin. Revised, with Additions on American History, by CS Henry, DD, Professor of History in the University of New- York.
Page 176 - The Student's Manual of Modern History : containing the Rise and Progress of the Principal European Nations, their Political History, and the Changes in their Social Condition.
Page 169 - Elementary Reading Charts. Forty-seven Numbers, including a beautiful Chart of Colors. Prepared by REBECCA D. RICKOFF. These Charts are designed to give a thorough exposition of the Word and Phonic Method especially, and at the same time all that is best in all other methods of teaching reading. The Charts are 27 x 34 inches in size, printed upon strong, flexible, tinted paper, and firmly bound at the upper margin, where they are attached to the Supporter-frame. They are turned back over the frame...
Page 165 - The object of these Primers is to convey information in such a manner as to make it both intelligible and interesting to pupils in the most elementary classes.
Page 168 - ... and with these is a vast amount of valuable information of every kind. Professor Bailey's lessons in elocution are fuller than in preceding volumes, and can probably not be equaled in the language for perspicuous brevity and completeness. The collection of " Unusual and Difficult Words " at the close comprises fifty-four lists of words which should always be kept in mind by the student.
Page 167 - FIVE BOOKS, SUPERBLY ILLUSTRATED. Appletons' First Reader. Child's Quarto. 90 pages. In the First Reader the combined word and phonic methods are admirably developed and carefully graded. In the first 52 pages (Part I), in connection with beautiful and child-life reading-lessons, are taught the names of all the letters, the short sounds of the vowels, and the sounds of the consonants and diphthongs. In Part II are found a systematic marking of silent letters and the more cosily distinguished sounds...
Page 167 - Preceding each reading-lesson the new words of that lesson are carefully marked for a spelling-exercise. This Reader gives prominence to the phonic analysis and the noting of silent letters, to the placing of diacritical marks, which must be learned by practice in marking words ; also, to the spelling of words and to sentence-making, using the words occurring in the reading-lessons. Appletons' Third Reader. 12mo. 214 pages. In this Reader the plan of the Second is continued, with the addition of...