Practical Phonics: A Comprehensive Study of Pronunciation, Forming a Complete Guide to the Study of the Elementary Sounds of the English Language, and Containing Three Thousand Words of Difficult Pronunciation, with Diacritical Marks According to Webster's Dictionary

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C.W. Bardeen, 1881 - 108 pagina's

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Pagina 106 - I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel ; For words, like Nature, half reveal And half conceal the Soul within. But, for the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured language lies ; The sad mechanic exercise, Like dull narcotics, numbing pain. In words, like weeds...
Pagina 104 - On his favourite subject of subordination, Johnson said, " So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.
Pagina 106 - No animal thinks, and no animal speaks, except man. Language and thought are inseparable. Words without thought are dead sounds; thoughts without words are nothing. To think is to speak low ; to speak is to think aloud. The word is the thought incarnate.
Pagina 108 - A sacrilegious son of Belial who suffered from bronchitis, having exhausted his finances, in order to make good the deficit, resolved to ally himself to a comely, lenient, and docile young lady of the Malay or Caucasian race. He accordingly purchased a calliope and...
Pagina 107 - Let every man be occupied, and occupied in the highest employment of which his nature is capable, and die with the consciousness that he has done his best!
Pagina 107 - Believe me, the talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well ; and doing well whatever you do, without a thought of fame.
Pagina 108 - I would say to him, try to frequent the company of your betters. In books and life that is the most wholesome society ; learn to admire rightly ; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired ; they admired great things : narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly.
Pagina 105 - Do not act as if thou wert going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over thee. While thou livest, while it is in thy power, be good.
Pagina 106 - Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed ; be anything else, and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.
Pagina 108 - The worth of a State, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it...

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