The Ideal Speller: For primary-[grammar] gradesThompson, Brown, 1917 |
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ABBREVIATIONS advertisement alcohol ance beautiful ben e building cate cial cious consonant cred Dictation exercises ence EXAMPLES give gram HOMONYMS I.-PREFIXES MEANING II.-SUFFIXES III.-STEMS MEANING John Ruskin lect letter liberty live ment modify its meaning nate Oliver Goldsmith phonograph port Stem pres pupils quire Review Lesson ri ous sentences ship Silent e sion sive soldiers spect spelling STUDY A Prefix Suffix SUGGESTIONS TO TEACHERS sure syllable placed SYNONYMS FOR STUDY tain tate tial tion tious tism tive trans Prefix treach tude ture usually some syllable vate word analysis suggested WORD STUDY word to modify write written
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Page 9 - If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he builds his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.
Page 11 - Ay, tear her tattered ensign down ! Long has it waved on high, And many an eye has danced to see That banner in the sky; Beneath it rung the battle shout, And burst the cannon's roar; — The meteor of the ocean air Shall sweep the clouds no more. Her deck, once red with heroes...
Page 12 - THE heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard. Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world.
Page 5 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.
Page 3 - A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser to-day than he was yesterday.
Page 5 - ... is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what win and preserve the heart, and secure comfort.
Page 6 - Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience he stands waiting, with exactness grinds he all.