The First-Class Standard Reader for Public and Private Schools; Containing a Summary of Rules for Pronunciation and Elocution, Numerous Exercises for ... Definitions, and a Copious Explanatory Index - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854. Excerpt: ... covered M the circulation of the blood; but Watt " invented" the steam-engine. Dock, the place where a criminal stands in court; also, a ship-builder's yard. A dry dock has flood-gatys to admit the tide, or prevent its influx, as occasion may require. Dogma, an opinion; that which seems true to one (from the Gr. dokein, to seem). Dogmatism, positive assertion, without proof. Dourloon, a Spanish coin of the value of two pistoles. Dragoon', to force to submit. Drama (dra'ma, or dr&m-a). This word is from the Gr. drao, I act or do; and means a composition in which the action or narrative is not related, but represent-ed. Adj., dra-mat'ic. See extracts, p. 383; also Dialogues. Drawing-room, a room to which the com-pany withdraw from the dining-room. Dryden, John, a celebrated English poet. Born 1563; died 1631. Futurity, by, 113. Ode on Cecilia's Day, 416. Dumas, Alexander, a French miscellaneous writer, very voluminous. Inconvenient Ignorance, 181. Fall of a Mountain, &c., 105. Imprisonment of Bonnivard, 142. Dumps, a gloomy, depressed state of mind. It is not an elegant word. Dymond, Jonathan, on Duelling, 330. Eagle. The figure of an eagle was the standard of the Romans; and has been adopted as the emblem of the United States. Early Rising, Thoughts on, 225. Echo (Gr.), the return or reverberation of a sound. Plural, echoes. Eclat (k-kla', the a as in father), a burst-ing forth; hence, applause, pomp, show. Eclipse (Gr. ekleipo, I cease, faint away, or disappear), the obscuration of the light of a heavenly body, 174. Eclip'tic, the sun's path in the heavens. It has been called the ecliptic because eclips-es only happen when the moon is on the same plane, or very near it. Economy (Gr. oikos, a house, and ndmfis, a law), originally, the thrifty management of...
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