The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1885-07-29
THE ENGLISH READING LESSON.
lecture by Mr.. Bcncf, in which lac
Ably ard Forcibly Portrayed: Inc
Elegance. Simplicity, and Beauty
of the ENGLISH

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me .nS;:;'s OF " thorough study OF lie English
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y" scatter p.shty oerH Shining ,nuu.
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Their lut forbade.
The teacher. he said, Should carefully read
the lesson aloud to his pupils. making them
mari: IL pencil the rhetorical pausG', which
in this sianHa would fall after .':Scnatcs,'
"ruinr and "plcnty," such pnuscs being often
OF greater value In bringing out The meaning,
than iiic printed punctuation. Tho class
should then read tic lesson ali together, not
then each pupil should read II part Of 1t by
himself.
The teacher should also make ms pupils I'M
dciiinc WIN pencIl ti,iTty OF 'oftS WoIuG III
racn uay 5 lcSsOH, Us II tcsSon Jul Tile ucill!tion
and uerlNall0l OF WnraS. 1i"sc sloulu PC
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10 liiustl.'e MS system all. tellnt c'IclutiS
f,,n,i in thr lines writtru on Tho blnck board /:
The. applause. Srna,cs. command, pain, ruin,
dcsr;isr. %Scuttrr. ulcutv. DER. land, read, his
tory. nntion's. cvcs. Tic showed that these
EnSlIsh words referred the student to Greek,
Latin. French. Norman. French. German,
Dutch, Anglo-SaSon and other languages and
dialects: and thus that the thorough study
Of an English sentence was In Itself Il raI.l-
bic lesson In languages, and that the study
of The English language involved the history
lie then spoke OF the characteristics OF the
English language, referring especially to its
81 renclh. sweetness and %siinpliciiy. The &C.
Mus or our mother tongue, he said, did not ia
vor 'wort!S OF learned length and Numbering
sound" but preferred words of one or two syi-
lablcs, and these chiefly OF Anglos:aX On Ori-
gin. AS an example which showed tho beau
Is and force OF simple English words, he re-
frrrc, TO the following lines from TrnnysOn's
LADY Clare.
H. dnos 49,, Lava ,, c-mr hr,h
ne "orb NOT inVe inc if my nrtn:
N"f lot NY JANUS SD prcan ana IE,ri
nc iovts me i"r my ';%H lrhe WORTH
Anu That Is We'll, SAID Lhay Glare.
There IL no word OF foreign descent In these