Words: Their Spelling, Pronunciation, Definition and ApplicationGregg Publishing Company, 1911 - 162 pages |
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abbreviations abstract of title accept acknowledgment action ad valorem advise ǎd-viz agreement Antonym applied in sentences assay attorney bank bill of exchange bill of lading bonded bucket shop called Capable cassimere cause certificate CHAPTER charge collateral commodities Compounds confidant consignee consignment consonant construct sentences contract correspondent counsel court creditors debt defendant delivery Dictation Exercise diphtheria dividends draft duty following words force formed by adding friends give hēr hyphen important indorsed interest kōr LESSON-Words letter liable loan means ment merchandise mortgage nouns ending obligation one's paper parquetry payable payment person plural possessive pound sterling precedent prefix replevin sell short selling similar pronunciation singular sold spelling student should look Suffixes syllable syndicate thâr things tion transferable unabridged dictionary usury valid vowel WORDS APPLIED writing written
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Page 151 - 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 6 - Words of one syllable or words accented on the last syllable, ending in a single consonant preceded by a single vowel, double the final consonant when adding a suffix beginning with a vowel.
Page 135 - Ah, to build, to build ! That is the noblest art of all the arts. Painting and sculpture are but images, Are merely shadows cast by outward things On stone or canvas, having in themselves No separate existence. Architecture, Existing in itself, and not in seeming A something it is not, surpasses them As substance shadow.
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Page 7 - And, therefore, first of all, I tell you earnestly and authoritatively (I know I am right in this), you must get into the habit of looking intensely at words, and assuring yourself of their meaning, syllable by syllable — nay, letter by letter.
Page 25 - I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past.
Page 129 - When I consider what some books have done for the world, and what they are doing, how they keep up our hope, awaken new courage and faith, soothe pain, give an ideal life to those whose homes are hard and cold, bind together distant ages and foreign lands, create new worlds of beauty, bring down truths from heaven — I give eternal blessings for this gift, and pray that we may use it aright, and abuse it never.
Page 91 - And Joshua adjured them at that time, saying, Cursed be the man before the LORD, that riseth up and buildeth this city Jericho: he shall lay the foundation thereof in his firstborn, and in his youngest son shall he set up the gates of it.