The Standard Fourth Reader for Public and Private Schools: Containing a Thorough Course of Preliminary Exercises in Articulation, Pronunciation, Accent, Etc.; Numerous Exercises in Reading; a New System of References; and a Copious Explanatory IndexJ.B. Lippincott and Company, 1855 - 336 pages |
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accent acute accent Altorf articulation aspirate beautiful blessing breath called Canute Carthage child chough Circumflex CONSONANT SOUNDS Cousin cried death diphthong Don G earth elementary sound Ellipsis enounced eyes father fear febrifuge Gelert Gesler give Grim hand happy hath hear heard heart heaven inflection Italicized king laugh letters liquid consonant live long sound look Lord majesty marked means mind mountain nasal consonant never night noun o'er pause perverted phaëton pitch poor Practise the Exercises prisum pronounced pupil reader replied rich river rule sentence short sound silent Socrates sometimes soul sound of long sound of short speak stood syllable tell thee thine things thou thought tion tone triphthong truth Tutor unaccented utterance verbs Vivia vocal voice Volney Bekner vowel vowel sounds walk words young youth ΕΙ
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Page 238 - There shall be sung another golden age, The rise of empire and of arts, The good and great inspiring epic rage, The wisest heads and noblest hearts. " Not such as Europe breeds in her decay ; Such as she bred when fresh and young, When heavenly flame did animate her clay, By future poets shall be sung. " Westward the course of empire takes its way ; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day ; Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Page 70 - To which, in silence hushed, his very soul Listened intensely ; and his countenance soon Brightened with joy ; for murmurings from within Were heard, sonorous cadences ! whereby, To his belief, the monitor expressed Mysterious union with its native sea. Even such a shell the universe itself Is to the ear of Faith...
Page 276 - I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education.
Page 295 - Lo, such the child whose early feet The paths of peace have trod ; Whose secret heart, with influence sweet, Is upward drawn to GOD.
Page 140 - tis nought to me: Since God is ever present, ever felt, In the void waste as in the city full; And where He vital breathes there must be joy.
Page 109 - And further, by these, my son, be admonished : of making many books there is no end ; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.
Page 139 - Nor the dejected haviour of the visage, Together with all forms, moods, shows of grief, That can denote me truly : these, indeed, seem, For they are actions that a man might play ; But I have that within, which passeth show, These but the trappings and the suits of woe.
Page 203 - He who ascends to mountain-tops, shall find The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds and snow ; He who surpasses or subdues mankind, Must look down on the hate of those below. Though high above the sun of glory glow, And far beneath the earth and ocean spread, Round him are icy rocks, and loudly blow Contending tempests on his naked head, And thus reward the toils which to those summits led.
Page 311 - Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression.
Page 71 - Ye pine-groves, with your soft and soul-like sounds ! And they too have a voice, yon piles of snow, And in their perilous fall shall thunder, God!