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240 Old-time Schools and School-books
The compiler has been excited to the present undertaking by representations that there is no reading book to be found at the bookstores, suitable for young children, to be used intermediately, between the Spelling-Book and the |
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English or American Reader. The Testament is much used for this purpose; and, on many accounts, it is admirably adapted for a reading book in schools. But it is respectfully submitted to the experience of judicious teachers, whether the peculiar structure of scripture |
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language is not calculated to create a tone ? I am persuaded it would be better to place a book in the hands of learners, written in a more familiar style. Such a work, I natter myself, will be found in the following pages. The selections contain many salutary precepts and instructive examples, for a life of piety and morality, of activity and usefulness. |
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Mr. Leavitt later supplemented his Easy Lessons with a Second Part. In this the most noteworthy portion was a series of sentences to illustrate the sounds of the letters. The chaotic paragraphs which follow are fair samples: —
The baboon blabbed and blubbered, dabbled in ribbons, gabbled in gibberish, played hob-nob with a robin, browbeat the tabby, made a hubbub for the rabble, bribed a nabob, and barbarously bamboozled a booby.
Our daddy did a deed, at dawn of day, that doubled the depredations of the dogged ducks and drakes, deceived the doubting dunce, addled the dandy paddy, and drove the saddled and bridled dog down the downward road, |
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