Слике страница
PDF
ePub

from some cause or other are frequently mispronounced. These should be all gone over very carefully, the pupils being required, each in his turn, to sound all the vocal elements which every successive word contains; or, in other language, to spell out, not the letters, but the elements of which it is made up. When the scholar has given the right spelling, let the whole class be required to sound the word, the teacher stopping and correcting any who may pronounce it wrong. A good many of the words at the beginning of the table are spelt into their elements, to serve as an example of what is to be done with the others.-The second table contains a number of sentences of difficult utterance. These must be all read with the same care, until every one in the class can repeat them all, without apparent effort, and without mistake or hesitation.

[blocks in formation]

*The elements marked in italics are those which are most likely to be left out or mistaken.

[blocks in formation]
[blocks in formation]

Whilst bloody treason flourished over us.
The breadth thereof was ten cubits.

Then rush'd the steed, to battle driven.

Thou look'st from thy throne in the clouds and laugh'st at the storm.

Now set the teeth, and stretch the nostril wide. When shall we venture to tell what was whispered

to us?

Those words are printed in italics whieh are most frequently mispronounced.

TABLE II-Continued.

Whence and what art thou, execrable shape?
The short and simple annals of the poor.
Hold off your hands, gentlemen.

His attempts were fruitless.

Overwhelm'd with whirlwinds.

Up the high hill he heaves the huge round stone.
The dogs bark'd and howl'd.

The word filch is of doubtful derivation.

He was hedged in on every side.

The acts of the Apostles.

Can you say crackers, crime, cruelty, crutches?
The heights, depths, and breadths of the subject.
Search the scriptures.

Can you whet a wet razor?

We saw on the road large droves of cattle.

It was the act, of all the acts of government the most objectionable.

A frame of adamant.

The attempt, and not the deed, confounds us.

Do you mean plain or playing cards?

Of man's miraculous mistakes, this bears the palm.
She swore, in faith 'twas strange, 't was wondrous

strange, 't was pitiful, 't was wondrous pitiful.
Boundless, endless, and sublime!
Mark'st thou ?

Your healths, gentlemen.

Round the rude ring the ragged rascal ran.
And on their hinges grate harsh thunder.

It is more formidable than the most clamorous oppo

sition.

TABLE II-Continued.

What an acknowledgement of the superiority of virtue !

The strength of his nostrils is terrible.

He snarls, but dares not bite.

Where the wild beasts find shelter, but I can find

none.

Have you a copy of Smith's Thucydides?

I thrust three thousand thistles through the thick of my thumb.

Peter Piper picked a peck of pepper.

CHAPTER II.

ON THE ELEMENTS OF EXPRESSION.

WE Come now to the consideration of the second class of Elements. In order to speak well, something more is wanted, than merely to sound the words distinctly. We must take care to give the meaning of the sentences exactly.

1

It is possible to give very different meanings to the same words, by saying them in a different manner. Take the sentence, 'Thou art the man.' We may make a plain sentence of these words, without any emphasis, or we may make any one of the words in it emphatic THOU art the man,' Thou ART the man,’ &c. Again, we may make the sentence a question,

« ПретходнаНастави »