...— eh — tee, compose the sound catf Don't they rather compose the sound sce-eh-te, or 2N ceaty ! How can a system of education flourish that begins...which the sense of hearing suffices to contradict ? Kb wonder that the horn-book is the despair of mothers !" From this instance, the reader will perceive...

...Don't they rather compose the sound see — eh — le, orceaty? How can a system of education nourish that begins by so monstrous a falsehood, which the sense of hearing suffices to contradict? No wonder that the horn-book is the despair of mothers!" From this instance, the reader will perceive...

...of SPELLING BOOKS : " A more lying, roundabout, puzzle-headed delusion than that by which we CONFUSE the clear instincts of truth in our accursed system...spelling, was never concocted by the father of falsehood." Such was the exordium of this famous treatise. "For instance, take the monosyllable CAT, What a brazen...

...should be rejected. Its loss would do no harm, but much good." Let us reject it, then, by all means. How can a system of education flourish that begins...which the sense of hearing suffices to contradict? " Rev. DP LINDSLEY, in the " Rapid Writer," for Oct., 1872, advocates a " simplification of our orthography."...

...rather compose the sound seeeh-te or ceaty ? How can a system of education flourish that begins with so monstrous a falsehood, which the sense of hearing suffices to contradict ? No wonder that the hornbook is the despair of mothers ! " From this instance, the reader will perceive...

...Lord Lytton says : ' A more lying, roundabout, puzzle-headed delusion than that by which we confuse the clear instincts of truth in our accursed system...which the sense of hearing suffices to contradict ? ' " Here is a chief source of the incapacity for thinking which academy and college students bring...

...Caxtons," when he says : " A more lying, round-about, puzzle-headed delusion than that by which we confuse the clear instincts of truth in our accursed system...which the sense of hearing suffices to contradict ? " " It is the universal testimony of teachers," remarks Mr. E. Jones, late Headmaster of the Hibernian...

...shrewd man of the world. " A more lying, roundabout, puzzleheaded delusion than that by which we confuse the clear instincts of truth in our accursed system...spelling was never concocted by the father of falsehood. "f The net result of the English spelling difficulty may be summed up as follows — half a million...

...Lord Lytton says, " A more lying, round-about, puzzle-headed delusion than that by which we confuse the clear instincts of truth in our accursed system...the sense of hearing suffices to contradict ? " The question, then, that will have to be answered sooner or ON SPELLING. later is this : — Can this unsystematic...

...puzzleheaded delusion than that by which we confuse the clear instincts of truth in our accursed system ot spelling was never concocted by the father of falsehood....genius among grammarians," says Dr. March, "Jacob Grimm, but a few years ago, congratulated the other- Europeans that the English had not made the discovery...