A Graded List of Common Words Difficult to SpellD.C. Heath & Company, 1891 - 88 pages |
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Common terms and phrases
accented ache 24 affix beginning Alaska bade băd badge 17 bamboo 24 blēv Briton bubble 20 Cadmus Cæsar caws 14 cheat 16 consonant dryly 23 duty 23 eleven 12 errand 17 faint 13 faithful 9 fellow not feller final consonant forecastle forecastle 23 formed by adding freight 14 frequently misspelled gilt 22 glean 25 glycerin Gorgons guilt 23 Idaho knack 9 lazy 23 lesson lofty 16 mariner 11 mercy 16 notion 25 Nouns ending number of words Perseus pertater pier 21 plural preceded pronunciation pupils rear 3 9 recess re-cess recite rejoice 21 rinse not rens rosy 13 saddle 15 say I guess schooner season 19 setting 21 shoal 18 singular sleet 22 sloop soul 22 sound the h source 24 spelling exercises streak 18 sycamore 12 syllable tardy teacher toast 13 view 19 vowel Words ending wring 11 written yacht yawl yeast
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Page 70 - 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 77 - But have you ever rightly considered what the mere ability to read means ? That it is the key which admits us to the whole world of thought and fancy and imagination ? to the company of saint and sage, of the wisest and the wittiest at their wisest and wittiest moment ? That it enables us to see with the keenest eyes, to hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time?
Page 75 - I visited various parts of my own country ; and, had I been merely influenced by a love of fine scenery, I should have felt little desire to seek elsewhere its gratification, for on no country have the charms of Nature been more prodigally lavished. Her mighty lakes, like oceans of liquid silver ; her mountains, with their bright aerial tints ; her valleys, teeming with wild fertility...
Page 76 - My native country was full of youthful promise : Europe was rich in the accumulated treasures of age. Her very ruins told the history of times gone by, and every mouldering stone was a chronicle. I longed to wander over the scenes of renowned achievement — to tread, as it were, in the footsteps of antiquity — to loiter about the ruined castle — to meditate on the falling tower — to escape, in short, from the common-place I — THE AUTHOR'S ACCOUNT OP HIMSELF. 11 realities of the present,...
Page 77 - We often hear of people who will descend to any servility, submit to any insult, for the sake of getting themselves or their children into what is euphemistically called good society. Did it ever occur to them that there is a select society of all the centuries to which they and theirs can be admitted for the asking, a society, too, which will not involve them in ruinous expense and still more ruinous waste of time and health and faculties...
Page 78 - Language is the amber, in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved. It has arrested ten thousand lightning flashes of genius, which, unless thus fixed and arrested, might have been as bright, but would also have been as quickly passing and perishing, as the lightning.
Page 80 - Amongst too many other instances of the great corruption and degeneracy of the age ••wherein we live, the great and general want of sincerity in conversation is none of the least. The world is grown so full of dissimulation and compliment, that men's words are hardly any signification of their...
Page 76 - Her mighty lakes, like oceans of liquid silver ; her mountains, with their bright aerial tints ; her valleys, teeming with wild fertility ; her tremendous cataracts, thundering in their solitudes ; her boundless plains, waving with spontaneous verdure; her broad, deep rivers, rolling in solemn silence to the ocean ; her trackless forests, where vegetation puts forth all its magnificence ; her skies, kindling with the magic of summer clouds and glorious sunshine ; — no, never need an American look...
Page 77 - One is sometimes asked by young people to recommend a course of reading. My advice would be that they should confine themselves to the supreme books in whatever literature, or still better to choose some one great author, and make themselves thoroughly familiar with him.
Page 80 - We should thus grow too in our feeling of connection with the past, of gratitude and reverence to it ; we should estimate more truly, and therefore more highly, what it has done for us, all that it has bequeathed us, all that it has made ready to our hands. It was something for the children of Israel...