Third Lessons in Reading and Grammar, for the Use of SchoolsWarren Colburn Hilliard, Gray and Company, 1838 |
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Third Lessons in Reading and Grammar: For the Use of Schools: Chiefly from ... Warren Colburn,Maria Edgeworth Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2016 |
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Seite 28 - But if they had all wrought separately and independently, and without any of them having been educated to this peculiar business, they certainly could not each of them have made twenty, perhaps not one pin in a day...
Seite 7 - Robert turned as pale as ashes when he heard his father's voice ; for his father always whipped him when he told a lie. His mother went to the door, and unlocked it. " What's all this 1" cried his father, as he came in.
Seite 5 - I don't know, ma'am," said Robert, in a very low voice. \"- You don't know, Robert ! — tell me the truth — 1 shall not be angry with you, child — You will only lose the milk at supper ; and as for the basin, I would rather have you break all the "basins I have, than tell me one lie. So don't tell me a lie. — I ask you, Robert, did you break the basin ?" " No, ma'am, I did not," said Robert ; and he coloured as red as fire. • " Then, where's Frank? did he do it?"
Seite 3 - Yes, but we shall have none of it : for do not you remember, last Monday, when we threw down the milk, my mother said, we were very careless, and that the next time we did so} we should have no more; and this is the next time ; so we shall have no milk for supper to-night.
Seite 102 - Will you lend me a bowl to pour it into, mamma?" " That was more than I promised you, my dear ; but I will lend you a bowl.
Seite 99 - How comes there to be a stone in your shoe ?" " Because of this great hole, mamma — it comes in there ; my shoes are quite worn out. I wish you would be so very good as to give me another pair.
Seite 4 - ... what had happened. Now, whilst Frank was gone, Robert was left in the room by himself; and all the while he was alone, he was thinking of some excuses to make to his mother ; and he was sorry that Frank was gone to tell her the truth. He said to himself, " If Frank and I both were to say that we did not throw down the basin, she would believe us, and we should have milk for supper. I am very sorry Frank would go to tell her about it.
Seite 103 - Rosamond was called to see anything, she was detained pulling her shoes up at the heels, and was sure to be too late. Whenever her mother was going out to walk, she could not take Rosamond with her, for Rosamond had no soles to her shoes; and at length, on the very last day of the month, it happened that her father proposed to take her, with her brother, to a glasshouse which she had long wished to see. She was very happy; but when she was quite ready, had her hat and gloves on, and was making haste...
Seite xi - ... vowel of the present without adding anything ; as, feed, fed ; lead, led ; and some have the present and the past alike ; as, set, set ; rid, rid. They have dropped the past tense ending. The past participle of all strong verbs once ended in en or n, but in many verbs this ending is now lost. Since most verbs form their past tense and past participle by adding ed, we call such Regular, and all others Irregular.
Seite 4 - Stay a little longer; for I dare not go yet — I am afraid." Little boys, I advise you, never be afraid to tell the truth; never say, "Stay a minute," and " Stay a little longer," but run directly, and tell of what you have done that is wrong. The longer you stay, the more afraid you will grow ; till at last, perhaps, you will not dare to tell the truth at all. Hear what happened to Robert. The longer he...