A Graded List of Common Words Difficult to SpellD.C. Heath & Company, 1891 - 88 էջ |
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Common terms and phrases
abbreviation accented affix beginning agile aj'il annoy 22 annoy 25 apostrophe barrack 21 bugle 16 bundle 22 burial 24 Cadmus cannon 22 carbine cartridge 14 commit 24 consonant cornice deceit 15 earnest 23 fashion 23 fiery 13 foamy 9 forecastle glimpse 20 gloomy 24 glycerin Gorgons hoof 22 ivory three syllables lesson lightning 18 lurch 25 mariner 11 mastiff mellow not meller mica missile mis'sil mourning mourning movable 16 musket 11 muzzle 3 19 nation 12 nouns Nouns ending oakum ostrich package 21 parade 20 parcel 23 pattern 21 Perseus pier 21 plāg not plěg plague plāg plural pounce 16 pronunciation purchase 2 19 quire 13 refuge 19 schooner seize 25 serf sloop smoking 11 Sound the g spear 9 speckle 20 squad 14 steadily 17 tardy vowel warfare 24 warrior 18 weapon wěp'on Words ending wreath reth wretch 25 method yawl yeast yonder 11
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Էջ 60 - 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.
Էջ 67 - 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?
Էջ 65 - 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...
Էջ 66 - 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,...
Էջ 67 - 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...
Էջ 68 - 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.
Էջ 70 - 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...
Էջ 66 - 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...
Էջ 67 - 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.
Էջ 70 - 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...