THE ENGLISH READERJohnson & Warner, 1811 - 392 sider |
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Side iii
... common difficulties in learning to read well are obvi ated . When the learner has acquired a habit of reading such sentences , with justice and facility , he will readily apply that habit and the improvements he has made , to sentences ...
... common difficulties in learning to read well are obvi ated . When the learner has acquired a habit of reading such sentences , with justice and facility , he will readily apply that habit and the improvements he has made , to sentences ...
Side vii
... common conversation , and which he should generally use in reading to others . For it is a great mistake , to imagine that one must take the high- est pitch of his voice , in order to be well heard in a large company . This is ...
... common conversation , and which he should generally use in reading to others . For it is a great mistake , to imagine that one must take the high- est pitch of his voice , in order to be well heard in a large company . This is ...
Side ix
... common , and requires the more to be guarded against , because , when it has grown into a hab- it , few errors are more difficult to be corrected . To pronounce with a proper degree of slowness , and with full and clear ar- ticulation ...
... common , and requires the more to be guarded against , because , when it has grown into a hab- it , few errors are more difficult to be corrected . To pronounce with a proper degree of slowness , and with full and clear ar- ticulation ...
Side xii
... common discourse ; and even sometimes throw it upon words so very trifling in themselves , that it is evidently done with no other view , than to give greater varie- ty to the modulation . Notwithstanding this diversity of practice ...
... common discourse ; and even sometimes throw it upon words so very trifling in themselves , that it is evidently done with no other view , than to give greater varie- ty to the modulation . Notwithstanding this diversity of practice ...
Side xv
... common speech , but , in some degree , more faintly charac terized . Let those tones which signify any disagreeable pas- sion of the mind , be still more faint than those which indicate agreeable emotions and on all occasions , preserve ...
... common speech , but , in some degree , more faintly charac terized . Let those tones which signify any disagreeable pas- sion of the mind , be still more faint than those which indicate agreeable emotions and on all occasions , preserve ...
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Populære passager
Side 203 - want spectators, God want praise} Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep. All these .with ceaseless praise his works behold, Both day and night. How often, from the steep Of echoing hill, or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each- to others* note,
Side 31 - If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink. He that planted the ear, shall he not hear ? He that formed the eye, shall he not see ? I have been young, and now I am old ; yet have I never
Side 228 - dispute ; From the centre all round to the sea,. I am lord of the fowl and the brute. Oh ! solitude ! where are the charms, That sages have seen in thy face f Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
Side 239 - Repeats the story of her birth : Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, .And spread the truth from pole to pole. What tho' in solemn silence all Move round the dark terrestrial ball 1
Side 202 - obey ; so God ordains. With thee conversing I forget all time ; All seasons and their change, all please alike, Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun When first on this delightful land he spreads
Side 190 - obey ; so God ordains. With thee conversing I forget all time ; All seasons and their change, all please alike, Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun "When first on this delightful land he spreads
Side 234 - Fountains, and ye that warble as ye flow ^Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise* Join voices all ye living souls ; ye birds, That singing up to heaven's gate ascend, Bear on your wings, and in your notes his praise. Ye that in waters glide, and ye that walk
Side 67 - far from me vanity and lies. Give me neither poverty nor riches. Feed me with food convenient for me : lest I be full, and deny thee ; and" say, who is the Lord ? or lest I be poor, and steal ; and take