The Reader's Guide: Containing a Notice of the Elementary Sounds in the English Language; Instructions for Reading Both Prose and Verse, with Numerous Examples for Illustration, and Lessons for PracticeRobins & Smith, 1845 - Počet stran: 320 |
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Strana 7
... speaking are excluded . To a great ex- tent , indeed , the same principles are involved , and the same exercises are required , in both reading and speaking ; and a good foundation for the latter is always best laid in the due ...
... speaking are excluded . To a great ex- tent , indeed , the same principles are involved , and the same exercises are required , in both reading and speaking ; and a good foundation for the latter is always best laid in the due ...
Strana 13
... speak , that is , to manage skilfully the human voice , should entirely omit every thing relating to the structure of its organs and the mode of their operation . How few , even among persons advanced in life , and , it might be added ...
... speak , that is , to manage skilfully the human voice , should entirely omit every thing relating to the structure of its organs and the mode of their operation . How few , even among persons advanced in life , and , it might be added ...
Strana 14
... speaking and singing . If a passage for the breath be left open and uninterrupted from the throat quite through the mouth and lips , the sound which is produced , however modified it may be in other respects , is continuous and open ...
... speaking and singing . If a passage for the breath be left open and uninterrupted from the throat quite through the mouth and lips , the sound which is produced , however modified it may be in other respects , is continuous and open ...
Strana 21
... speak it in half the time now consumed , and cause them to admire it besides ; would save much time and expense in writing and printing , because then there would be no silent letters , which now , as supernume- raries , occupy so much ...
... speak it in half the time now consumed , and cause them to admire it besides ; would save much time and expense in writing and printing , because then there would be no silent letters , which now , as supernume- raries , occupy so much ...
Strana 24
... speak of vowels as being accented . Thus , they would say that in the word abode an accent is placed on the last syllable ; yet all that can be properly said of that syllable is , that the vowel o is protracted in the utterance of it ...
... speak of vowels as being accented . Thus , they would say that in the word abode an accent is placed on the last syllable ; yet all that can be properly said of that syllable is , that the vowel o is protracted in the utterance of it ...
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Strana 249 - And monarchs tremble in their capitals, The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord of thee, and arbiter of war ; These are thy toys, and, as the snowy flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar.
Strana 311 - There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, And fire out of his mouth devoured; Coals were kindled by it.
Strana 36 - Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us', even as they' delivered them unto us' which from the beginning were eye-witnesses
Strana 249 - And shake him from thee; the vile strength he wields For earth's destruction, thou dost all despise, Spurning him from thy bosom to the skies, And send'st him, shivering in thy playful spray, And howling, to his Gods, where haply lies His petty hope in some near port or bay, And dashest him again to earth: — there let him lay.
Strana 63 - For thy servant became surety for the lad unto my father, saying, If I bring him not unto thee, then I shall bear the blame to my father for ever. Now therefore, I pray thee, let thy servant abide instead of the lad a bondman to my lord ; and let the lad go up with his brethren. For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me? lest peradventure I see the evil that shall come on my father.
Strana 313 - Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number; he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power; not one faileth.
Strana 221 - But mercy is above this sceptered sway ; It is enthroned in the hearts of kings ; It is an attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God's, When mercy seasons justice. Therefore, Jew, Though justice be thy plea, consider this, — That in the course of justice none of us Should see salvation ; we do pray for mercy ; And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy.
Strana 263 - Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly! For him no wretches, born to work and weep, Explore the mine, or tempt the dangerous...
Strana 50 - To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in Heaven. As some tall cliff, that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale and midway leaves the storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
Strana 262 - Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth, when every sport could please, How often have I loitered o'er thy green, Where humble happiness endeared each scene...