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Jean Sherwood Rankin. Rankin , Jean Sherwood , Everyday English , book 1 ... / Stanford University Libraries 3 6105 04925 7293 DAY BOOK TWO ENGLISH JEAN SHERWOOD RANKIN SCHOOL OF EDUCATION LIBRARY TEXTBOOK COLLECTION GIFT OF THE PUBLISHERS.
Jean Sherwood Rankin. Rankin , Jean Sherwood , Everyday English , book 1 ... / Stanford University Libraries 3 6105 04925 7293 DAY BOOK TWO ENGLISH JEAN SHERWOOD RANKIN SCHOOL OF EDUCATION LIBRARY TEXTBOOK COLLECTION GIFT OF THE PUBLISHERS.
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... where With Small Classes but Great Teachers 1 First Began to Love and Revere The English Language and Its Literature " Everyday English " Is Affectionately Dedicated 72581 PREFACE " Everyday English " has been written , not SLANG.
... where With Small Classes but Great Teachers 1 First Began to Love and Revere The English Language and Its Literature " Everyday English " Is Affectionately Dedicated 72581 PREFACE " Everyday English " has been written , not SLANG.
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... English , - oral reading , spelling , and penmanship ; ( 2 ) Certain of our great universities have lately ruled that all would - be students must pass satisfactory entrance examination in reading , spelling , penmanship , and simple ...
... English , - oral reading , spelling , and penmanship ; ( 2 ) Certain of our great universities have lately ruled that all would - be students must pass satisfactory entrance examination in reading , spelling , penmanship , and simple ...
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... English speech ; he has dabbled in a score of subjects ; he has learned indeed many useful things ; but he has not gained the mastery of his own vernacular . Have the children from English - speaking homes , however , forged ahead ...
... English speech ; he has dabbled in a score of subjects ; he has learned indeed many useful things ; but he has not gained the mastery of his own vernacular . Have the children from English - speaking homes , however , forged ahead ...
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... English study , because this and this alone will lead to a noble diction , and diction , as Professor James Morgan Hart of Cornell says , is the English language . There is no human being but can achieve reasonable ability in the use of ...
... English study , because this and this alone will lead to a noble diction , and diction , as Professor James Morgan Hart of Cornell says , is the English language . There is no human being but can achieve reasonable ability in the use of ...
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Page 81 - His hair is crisp, and black, and long ; His face is like the tan ; His brow is wet with honest sweat ; He earns whate'er he can ; And looks the whole world in the face, For he owes not any man.
Page 12 - Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O UNION, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate! We know what Master laid thy keel, What Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each mast, and sail, and rope, What anvils rang, what hammers beat, In what a forge, and what a heat Were shaped the anchors of thy hope!
Page 4 - THIS is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic, Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms.
Page 12 - Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State ! Sail on, O UNION, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, . ' Is hanging breathless on thy fate...
Page 75 - Stop thief! stop thief! — a highwayman! Not one of them was mute; And all and each that passed that way Did join in the pursuit. And now the turnpike gates again Flew open in short space; The toll-men thinking as before That Gilpin rode a race.
Page 137 - IT was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea That a maiden there lived whom you may know By the name of ANNABEL LEE ; And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me.
Page 231 - Risest from forth thy silent sea of pines How silently ! Around thee and above Deep is the air and dark, substantial, black. An ebon mass : methinks thou piercest it, As with a wedge ! but when I look again, It is thine own calm home, thy crystal shrine, Thy habitation from eternity ! 0 dread and silent mount ! I gazed upon thee, Till thou, still present to the bodily sense, Didst vanish from my thought : entranced in prayer 1 worshipped the Invisible alone.
Page 173 - ABOU BEN ADHEM (may his tribe increase!) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace, And saw within the moonlight in his room, Making it rich and like a lily in bloom, An angel writing in a book of gold: Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold, And to the presence in the room he said, "What writest thou?" The vision raised its head, And, with a look made of all sweet accord, Answered, "The names of those who love the Lord.
Page 12 - An hour passed on — the Turk awoke; That bright dream was his last; He woke — to hear his sentries shriek, "To arms! they come! the Greek! the Greek!
Page 234 - Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end. Will the day's journey take the whole long day? From morn to night, my friend.