The American Repertory of Arts, Sciences and Useful Literature1831 |
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... sentences — and upon a facility in this particular , will future success in a great measure depend . The next thing necessary is , to adopt for the purpose of short - hand , a new mode of spelling , for which see page 11. But before I ...
... sentences — and upon a facility in this particular , will future success in a great measure depend . The next thing necessary is , to adopt for the purpose of short - hand , a new mode of spelling , for which see page 11. But before I ...
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... sentences with tolerable accuracy — and frequently , before the un- accustomed organs of speech are able to pronounce words with distinctness . We see these little ones chattering with each other from morning till night , and seldom at ...
... sentences with tolerable accuracy — and frequently , before the un- accustomed organs of speech are able to pronounce words with distinctness . We see these little ones chattering with each other from morning till night , and seldom at ...
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... sentences like an automaton grammar mill- while his learning is at best the chaff , without the wheat - and why so ? Because the subjects are fre- quently too vast for his feeble powers , and his attention is too much divided - amid an ...
... sentences like an automaton grammar mill- while his learning is at best the chaff , without the wheat - and why so ? Because the subjects are fre- quently too vast for his feeble powers , and his attention is too much divided - amid an ...
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... sentence , some one of these sixty words must necessarily occur , and frequently , in common parlance , or even in Scripture style , they con- stitute half , or more , of all the words in a discourse . The third power of the characters ...
... sentence , some one of these sixty words must necessarily occur , and frequently , in common parlance , or even in Scripture style , they con- stitute half , or more , of all the words in a discourse . The third power of the characters ...
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... sentence , even of the learned , he is constant- ly gaining a knowledge of other words , before new to him , without any apparent inconvenience or loss of time , simply by their connexion in sentences , with words already familiar . A ...
... sentence , even of the learned , he is constant- ly gaining a knowledge of other words , before new to him , without any apparent inconvenience or loss of time , simply by their connexion in sentences , with words already familiar . A ...
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Page 72 - And Jesus, walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brethren, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea : for they were fishers. And he saith unto them, " Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.
Page 85 - And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind : and God saw that it was good. And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
Page 83 - And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
Page 83 - In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 2 And the earth was without form, and void ; and darkness was upon the face of the deep, And the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. 3 And God said, Let there be light ; and there was light.
Page 70 - And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread. But he answered and said, IT is WRITTEN, MAN SHALL NOT LIVE BY BREAD ALONE, BUT BY EVERY WORD THAT PROCEEDETH OUT OF THE MOUTH OF GOD.
Page 84 - And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night ; and let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days,
Page 68 - Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end ; but establish the just : for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins.
Page 85 - And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
Page 84 - And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
Page 71 - And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down, for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee : and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.