How classed? What the object of studying grammar? How do you know the adverb? Les. 36. Are there few or many adverbs in the language? many kinds? Can you name one of each? How CHAPTER 16. SPELLING.-LESSON 1. Easy words of two syllables, accent on the second; the long sound of the vowels. READING. LESSON 2. Brevity of Time. 1. Time is a tide that never runs back'; it knows no pause'; and no man has seen its end'. Hence, it is brief, only as it relates to the life of man. The several stages into which that life is lotted', pass off in very quick succession`; and the whole date of his continuing', is brief indeed. 2. The moment that is passed', is gone for ever', none can beg it back`; none can charm it back. The arrow is flown';-the moment is gone'; And three score and ten', passes by like the dawn'; And reports to its author', how we pass it by`. 3. Now', as the past is gone and can be retaken by none', and as no one has a title to the future', the most that can be claimed, is the present`. Let this little point, then, be used with care', and promptly and wisely devoted to the duties of life', and the things that pertain to the hour of death'. MULTIPLICATION.-LESSON 3. 1. James has 13 sheep, John has 3 times as many, and Jane has 6 times as many as John; How many has Jane, and what will they amount to at 2 dollars a head? Thus: 13X3=39, X6=234, Jane's sheep, and 234X2= 468 dollars, Answer. 2. Six men paid a debt; each gave 631 dollars; what was the debt? Answer, 3786 dollars. 3. The State of New York is divided into 56 counties. Now suppose each county has 36 towns, each town 572 houses, and each house 5 persons; what would be the population of the whole state? Ans. 2016 Towns; 1153152 houses; 5765760 persons. 4. B. has a fine orchard; the trees stand in rows two ways; each row one way has 138 trees, and 110 the other way. Now suppose each tree bears 909 apples; how many trees and apples in the orchard? Ans. 15180 trees; 13798620 apples. 5. A. bought 342 bales of cloth; each bale has 56 pieces, and each piece 25 yards, and each yard worth 5 dollars; find the amount. Ans. 2394000 dollars. GRAMMAR.-LESSON 8. The eighth part of speech. The eighth part of speech is the Conjunction. This class of words is used to join words, and sentences, and members of sentences. They are generally small words and are styled particles. And, but, as, so, yet, are among the most common. Thus: James and John are good boys. Jane and Mary read well, but they write too fast. He whistles as he goes, yet he is sad. As the tree falls so it lies. OBS. You will know the conjunction because it connects words, or sentences, or parts of sentences, and is called a connective particle. READING.-LESSON 6. 4. Time's but a span`; 'tis like a tale`; Or, like an eagle on his way', 5. Time 's like an arrow just let fly', Or, like a short liv'd fading flower'; Shot gleaming thro' a winter's day'; 7. Time 's like the closing watch of night', ARITHMETIC.-LESSON 7. The operations of subtraction may be performed in a very compendious way by a rule called DIVISION. Division shows a method of finding how many times one number is found in another, and what remains. In this case two terms are given to find a third. The number given to be divided is called the Dividend. The number by which the division is made is called the Divisor. And the third term or answer is called the Quotient. What is left when the work is done, is a fractional part of the dividend, and is called the Remainder; this will always be less than the divisor. When the divisor is less than 13, it is called short division, for then it is done by one operation, and the quotient stands in a line under the dividend. RULE 1. Write the divisor on the left of the dividend, and part them by a small curved line; then draw a line under the dividend. 2. Find by inspection how often the divisor is contained in the first left hand figure or figures, and place the result under the right hand figure of those that were taken into the inspection, for the first left hand figure in the quotient. 3. If there be a remainder, suppose it be as many tens, and prefixed to the next figure of the dividend, and then inspect and obtain a second quotient figure. 4. Proceed in this way through all the figures of the dividend; Thus: Suppose the dividend to be 3426, and the divisor 6. 6)3426 571 Quotient. As the proof of Multiplication is by Division, so the proof of Division is best obtained by Multiplication. Multiply the quotient by the divisor, add in the remainder, if any, and the product will be equal to the dividend. The ninth part of speech is the Preposition. This part of speech also joins words and phrases and points out the relation that subsists between them. Prepositions are likewise small words or particles, such as by, with, to, from, of, on, at, in, &c. and they are applied, Thus: John went from Boston to Salem, in a stage on the turn-pike. Ann walked from the green, by the Park on the left to Chatham. OBS. Although the Preposition joins words, &c. like the conjunction, yet you can tell the preposition because it shows á relation which the legitimate conjunction does not.. READING.-LESSON 10. Time and the Child. 1. Time', come and tell this little child', 2. Come, bid this child be early wise', } To lift his thoughts above the skies', 3. Child', catch the moments as they fly', DIVISION.LESSON 11. OBS. To divide any sum by 10, merely cut off the right hand figure, and call it a remainder; to divide by 100, cut off twe figures, by 1000, cut of three figures, &c. GRAMMAR.-LESSON 12. The tenth part of speech. The tenth and last part of speech is the Interjection. The use of this class of words, is to express an emotion of the mind, indicative of joy, grief, fear, &c. and it is generally followed by the exclamation point; as: oh! ah! alas! &c. There are but few interjections in the language. You will know them from all the other parts of speech, for they indi cate an emotion of the mind, and are followed by the point clusively appropriated to them. ex pō-lite' pré-fer pre-tend |