The Accomplished Tutor; Or, Complete System of Liberal Education:: Containing the Most Improved Theory and Practice of the Following Subjects: 1. English Grammar, and Elocution. 2. Penmanship, and Short Hand. 3. Arithmetic, Vulgar and Decimal ... 18. Drawing, Engraving, and Painting. And Other Useful Matter. Embellished with Twenty Copper-plates and Six Maps, Neatly Engraved, Τόμος 1H. D. Symonds, Paternoster Row; and Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, Poultry., 1806 - 458 σελίδες Systematized information on many subjects, appropriate for self-instruction. |
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Σελίδα 21
... necessary to fay a few words concerning , what are called , by gramma- rians , contracted verbs . Verbs which end in ch , ck , p , x , ll , fs , in forming the past time active , and the participle perfect or paffive , often change the ...
... necessary to fay a few words concerning , what are called , by gramma- rians , contracted verbs . Verbs which end in ch , ck , p , x , ll , fs , in forming the past time active , and the participle perfect or paffive , often change the ...
Σελίδα 57
... necessary rule , as errors in pronunciation are more fre quently committed , and lefs guarded against than any others . Faults in pronunciation are innumerable . Some of them are the following : omitting the afpirate where it fhould be ...
... necessary rule , as errors in pronunciation are more fre quently committed , and lefs guarded against than any others . Faults in pronunciation are innumerable . Some of them are the following : omitting the afpirate where it fhould be ...
Σελίδα 62
... necessary to the fenfe . The cadence is that fall of the voice which is generally directed to be made before every full stop . There are principally two faults committed with regard to pauses . The firft , and one of the worst faults a ...
... necessary to the fenfe . The cadence is that fall of the voice which is generally directed to be made before every full stop . There are principally two faults committed with regard to pauses . The firft , and one of the worst faults a ...
Σελίδα 86
... whole , I can let you have the greater part , and the remainder in a few days . " I am , Weftminster , March 30 , 1808 . My dear Friend , Yours fincerely , & c.- It is as necessary to know how to direct , 5 86 OF PENMANSHIP .
... whole , I can let you have the greater part , and the remainder in a few days . " I am , Weftminster , March 30 , 1808 . My dear Friend , Yours fincerely , & c.- It is as necessary to know how to direct , 5 86 OF PENMANSHIP .
Σελίδα 87
... necessary to know how to direct , or fubfcribe , as to write a letter . Perfons in high rank , and peculiar stations in life , are to be addressed in a peculiar manner . For the Directions or Superfcriptions of Letters . To the King ...
... necessary to know how to direct , or fubfcribe , as to write a letter . Perfons in high rank , and peculiar stations in life , are to be addressed in a peculiar manner . For the Directions or Superfcriptions of Letters . To the King ...
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Σελίδα 66 - ... accent of Christians, nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted, and bellowed, that I have thought some of Nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Σελίδα 51 - Then cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
Σελίδα 65 - Herod. Pray you, avoid it. Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor. Suit the action to the word, the word to the action, with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature.
Σελίδα 66 - Now, this overdone, or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve ; the censure of which one must, in your allowance, o'erweigh a whole theatre of others. Oh ! there...
Σελίδα 112 - The prince went to Rome to defend his father; but coming into the senate and hearing a multitude of crimes proved upon him, was so oppressed when it came to his turn to speak that he was unable to utter a word.
Σελίδα 65 - Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue : but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines.
Σελίδα 111 - I know no two words that have been more abused by the different and wrong interpretations which are put upon them, than those two, modesty and assurance. To say, such a one is a modest man, sometimes indeed passes for a good character ; but at present is very often used to signify a sheepish, awkward fellow, who has neither good breeding, politeness, nor any knowledge of the world.
Σελίδα 208 - Multiply all the numerators together for a new numerator, and all the denominators together for a new denominator.
Σελίδα 112 - For this reason a man truly modest is as much so when he is alone as in company, and as subject to a blush in his closet, as when the eyes of multitudes are upon him. . , I do not remember to have met with any...
Σελίδα 48 - ... such a thing in nature as a folio : the works of an age would be contained on a few shelves ; not to mention millions of volumes that would be utterly annihilated.