Lesson 175. Amanda has a roguish face, dimpled and healthful, with the color mantling in her cheeks, -the very picture of goodhumor and blooming beauty. These, coupled with her gentle and timid bearing, produce a pleasing impression. She is a winning, happy, amiable companion. Cheerfulness and content are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of youthful looks, depend upon it. He bought a quire of music-paper for the choir. Lessen the length of the lesson. Did you jam your thumb? A door-jamb. My cousin has done the deed. Cozen, to cheat. A dun cow. The surf of the sea. A serf is a slave. Do you know aught of him? Daniel ought to go. Wait for the wagon. A great weight of snow. The maiden is faint. A feint is a pretense. Lesson 178. [Write the following lesson entire, giving special attention to punctuation.] Hiram had enthroned our two-year-old Herbert in the big rocking-chair, with a huge paper crown on his head, and a poker for a scepter. Amy and Molly, in soldier-caps, stood on each side of the throne as guards, but were obliged to dodge the scepter, which the young king wielded vigorously. Levi was rigged out in uniform, and was bringing an offender before the king. This was Tommy, the black kitten, who seemed very unwilling to come. Tommy knew by experience the tender mercies of his majesty. RULE I. FOR SPELLING. - Final e is dropped when a syllable beginning with a vowel is added. N.B. See also other illustrations of the above rule in Lessons 70 and 179, and exceptions in Lesson 327. Lesson 181. To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting. Edmund Burke. Maxim for mankind in general: Mind your own business. From rough outsides, serene and gentle influences often proceed. Dickens. The foolish and wicked habit of profane swearing is a vice so mean and low, that every person of sense and character detests and despises it. - George Washington. se rene pro ceed' bus'i ness1 practice out sides pro fane' swear'ing ehar'ac ter de tests' de spis es Wash'ing ton or s, preceded by a single vowel, generally double the final letter. Words of one syllable, ending in f, 1, NOTE. When s is used to form the possessive case or the plurals of nouns or the third person singular of a verb, the final letter is not doubled. 1 blz'nes. Lesson 184. A bitter storm of sleet rattled on the trembling windows. Sign-boards, shaken past endurance in their creaking frames, fell, crashing, on the pavement. Old, tottering chimneys reeled and staggered in the blast; and many a steeple rocked again, as though the earth were troubled. pave'ment chim neys reeled staggered Dickens. ma'ny rocked though troubled wind is very violent. The undaunted spirit is awed by nothing to be bold is to be constantly fearless; the intrepid man will face danger with composure. Artful persons deceive : others we usually delude ourselves. Foregoing and previous refer to what happens before; former aud prior to what exists before. Lesson 187. She was a staid little woman, a wise housekeeper, and a busy, quiet, pleasant lady; bearing with our humors, and anticipating our wishes, and always ready to forget her own. Dickens. She had eyes that beamed with a clear, calm, honest, patient radiance, claiming kindred with that light Heaven brought into being, eyes that were gleaming with hope so buoyant, vigorous, and bright. - Dickens. Capital letters must begin (1) the chief words in titles and headings; as, "School Studies in Words." (2) The first word of every distinct sentence; as, "Toadstools are poisonous mushrooms." (3) A direct quotation; as, "Wisdom and truth, the offspring of the sky, are immortal; while cunning and deception, the meteors of the earth, after glittering for a moment, must pass away." |