Exercises on Words: Designed as a Course of Practice on the Rudiments of Grammar and RhetoricWhittemore, Niles & Hall, 1856 - 225 Seiten |
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... sound to the ear . Thus , the word rec - re - a - tion is properly so divided in the columns of the spelling - book , and in the or- thoëpical columns of the dictionary , in which the in- tention is to suggest , through the eye , the ...
... sound to the ear . Thus , the word rec - re - a - tion is properly so divided in the columns of the spelling - book , and in the or- thoëpical columns of the dictionary , in which the in- tention is to suggest , through the eye , the ...
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... sounds ; ( 3. ) articulating , with perfect exactness , the sound- not the name— of every letter which is not a silent one , in every syllable , successively ; ( 4. ) after this analysis , repeating the proper pronuncia- tion of the ...
... sounds ; ( 3. ) articulating , with perfect exactness , the sound- not the name— of every letter which is not a silent one , in every syllable , successively ; ( 4. ) after this analysis , repeating the proper pronuncia- tion of the ...
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... sounds of their letters . It will be a useful varia- tion of method to invert the process , and , instead of the analytic form , to adopt the constructive one , and commence with the sounds of the letters , proceed to the enunciation of ...
... sounds of their letters . It will be a useful varia- tion of method to invert the process , and , instead of the analytic form , to adopt the constructive one , and commence with the sounds of the letters , proceed to the enunciation of ...
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... sound judgment , as that which , by way of disparagement , is termed theatrical . The consentaneous usage of cultivated society , is the sole arbiter , in our day , of matters con- nected with the forms of utterance . The pulpit , the ...
... sound judgment , as that which , by way of disparagement , is termed theatrical . The consentaneous usage of cultivated society , is the sole arbiter , in our day , of matters con- nected with the forms of utterance . The pulpit , the ...
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... sounds , such as marked the style of the country gentlemen of England , more than a century ago ; and the spoken language of our West- ern States , is , to a great extent , chargeable with an intermixture of the local errors of New ...
... sounds , such as marked the style of the country gentlemen of England , more than a century ago ; and the spoken language of our West- ern States , is , to a great extent , chargeable with an intermixture of the local errors of New ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
action analysis of composition ary language attained attention beauty blackboard character Cicero copula correct critical definition derivation dictionary difference diphthongs discrimination distinction Dryden endeavor English English language Errors etymological exact Examples exemplified exercises on words expression EXTRACT fall feel form of exercise give grammar guage habit happy Henry Reed idea instruction judgment knowledge labor language Latin Latin language learned lesson letters logical pro meaning ment metaphysical poet mind mode nature never observation oral orthoëpy orthography passions perfect perly person phrases pleasure poet poetry Pope practice prefix prescribed present prince of Condé pronunciation proper properly pupils racter reading regard render rhetoric Saxon sense sentence signification soul sound specific spelling student style suffixes suggested syllables synonyms taste teach teacher term thing thought tion trace truth usage virtue vowel Webster's dictionary whole wish writing written
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 149 - Methinks this single consideration of the progress of a finite spirit to perfection, will be sufficient to extinguish all envy in inferior natures, and all contempt in superior.
Seite 130 - And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in them as was in those of the ancients. But it is not only the difficulty and...
Seite 200 - In its legitimate and highest efforts, it has the same tendency and aim with Christianity ; that is, to spiritualize our nature. True ; poetry has been made the instrument of vice, the pander of bad passions ; but when genius thus stoops, it dims its fires, and...
Seite 163 - Of composition there are different methods. Some employ at once memory and invention, and, with little intermediate use of the pen, form and polish large masses by continued meditation, and write their productions only when, in their own opinion, they have completed them.
Seite 160 - But wit, abstracted from its effects upon the hearer, may be more rigorously and philosophically considered as a kind of discordia concors; a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently unlike.
Seite 202 - ... of our earthly being. The present life is not wholly prosaic, precise, tame, and finite. To the gifted eye it abounds in the poetic. The affections which spread beyond ourselves and stretch far into futurity ; the workings of mighty passions, which seem to arm the soul with an almost superhuman energy ; the innocent and irrepressible joy of infancy ; the bloom, and buoyancy, and dazzling hopes of youth ; the tbrobbings of the heart, when it first wakes to love...
Seite 164 - He professed to have learned his poetry from Dryden, whom, whenever an opportunity was presented, he praised through his whole life with unvaried liberality; and perhaps his character may receive some illustration if he be compared with his master.
Seite 201 - It reveals to us the loveliness of nature, brings back the freshness of youthful feeling, revives the relish of simple pleasures, keeps unquenched the enthusiasm which warmed the spring-time of our being, refines youthful love, strengthens our interest in human nature by vivid delineations of its tenderest and loftiest feelings, spreads our sympathies over all classes of society, knits us by new ties with universal being, and, through, the brightness of its prophetic visions, helps faith to lay hold...
Seite 201 - It delights in the beauty and sublimity of the outward creation and of the soul. It indeed portrays with terrible energy the excesses of the passions ; but they are passions which show a mighty nature, which are full of power, which command awe, and excite a deep though shuddering sympathy.
Seite 131 - It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tossed upon the sea ; a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below : but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of Truth, (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene,) and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below ; so always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride.