Everyday English: Language lessons for grammar gradesEducational Publishing Company, 1903 - English language |
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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 PREFACE 66 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 PREFACE 66 Everyday English " has been written , not SLANG.
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... written signs for terms already possessed in oral use , but also the original ideas lying back of those oral signs , together with the oral signs themselves . The English - speaking child , for example , knows the object sofa , and the ...
... written signs for terms already possessed in oral use , but also the original ideas lying back of those oral signs , together with the oral signs themselves . The English - speaking child , for example , knows the object sofa , and the ...
Page v
... written sign for what to him is a pure abstraction . Perhaps for years a considerable portion of his textbook vocabulary is made up of terms which for him have no inner content of meaning . This fact easily accounts for the amazing ...
... written sign for what to him is a pure abstraction . Perhaps for years a considerable portion of his textbook vocabulary is made up of terms which for him have no inner content of meaning . This fact easily accounts for the amazing ...
Page vii
... written speech ; that language as art must precede the acquirement of language as science ; that a broad and well - possessed vocabulary is the most important element in English study , because this and this alone will lead to a noble ...
... written speech ; that language as art must precede the acquirement of language as science ; that a broad and well - possessed vocabulary is the most important element in English study , because this and this alone will lead to a noble ...
Page viii
... written of this newer method of English study : " It has made us better teachers . " Very grateful am I also to the general and to the educational press which have heartily endorsed and re - endorsed a revolutionary system which is in ...
... written of this newer method of English study : " It has made us better teachers . " Very grateful am I also to the general and to the educational press which have heartily endorsed and re - endorsed a revolutionary system which is in ...
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Page 81 - Week in, week out, from morn till night, You can hear his bellows blow ; You can hear him swing his heavy sledge, With measured beat and slow, Like a sexton ringing the village bell, When the evening sun is low. And children coming home from school Look in at the open door ; They love to see the flaming forge, And hear the bellows roar, And catch the burning sparks that fly Like chaff
Page 280 - It sounds to him like her mother's voice Singing in Paradise : He needs must think of her once more How in the grave she lies, And with his hard rough hand he wipes A tear out of his eyes.
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 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 4 - 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 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.
Page 226 - A THING of beauty is a joy for ever : Its loveliness increases ; it will never Pass into nothingness ; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.