The Project Gutenberg eBook, Business English, by Rose Buhlig ppt

... hate.Which has more nearly the sound of a in the alphabet? This is called the natural orlong sound of the vowel. The other iscalled the short sound.Drop the e from hate. Explain the result.Friday ... 2 The days of the week and the months of the year are interesting in their derivation.Monday, for example, represents the daysacred to the Moon as a deity. Explain the origin of each of the ... marked with the tilde or waveExercise 11—VowelsOf the twenty-six letters in the alphabet, how many are vowels? Namethem. What are the other letters called?Compare the ă in hat and the ā in hate.Which...

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The Project Gutenberg eBook, Business English, by Rose Buhlig docx

... chapter only the barestbeginning of such study can be made. The exercises show the value of the subject. The study of words is interestingbecause words themselves are interesting.Sometimes the interest ... of putting the best thoughts into the clearest, most concise language, at the same time obeying all the rules ofspelling, punctuation, and grammar. The business man must be sure of these detailsin ... of the Bible, stories of Greek and Northerngods and goddesses, stories of the Iliad,t h e Odyssey, the Æneid, stories ofchivalry—all old stories. Every oneshould know them well, because they...

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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Addresses, by Phillips Brooks pot

... picture to them, appealing to theirbetter nature, trusting to their nobler soul,that there is in them the power to saveother men from sin, and to help the workof God by the control of their ownpassions ... but the only way you can help them is by being the noblest and the best man that it ispossible for you to be. I watch the workman build upon the building which by and by is to soar into the ... itseems as if it gathered itself together intoselfishness. Only then it opens by and by into the largest and noblest works of men,in which they most manifest the richnessof their human nature...

The Project Gutenberg eBook, Analyzing Character, by Katherine M. H. Blackford and Arthur pptx

... at the start in the race against thoseusing their best. He is like an***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ANALYZINGCHARACTER*** E-text prepared by JulietSutherland, Sjaani,and the Project ... because they aregood guessers, but because, by means of science, theydetermine accurately all of the factors entering into the flight oftheir projectiles. Pericles judgedmen by a shrewd guess the kind ... singleline." That the main features of the system suggested by Mr.Babson are being made the basisof the vocational movement isone of the most hopeful signs of the times.Dr. George W. Jacoby, the neurologist,...

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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Baccara, by Hector Malot doc

... ce qui lui restait de propriétés, ilsavaient acheté le château du Thuit, auxenvirons de Bourgtheroulde. A la vérité,ce nom de «château» les avait un momentarrêtés et failli empêcher leur ... n'avait qu'àtravailler.fauteuil, la Maman achevait la lecture del'Officiel, Berthe tournait les pages d'unlivre à images, devant un pupitre Léonieachevait ses devoirs,...

The Project Gutenberg eBook, Commercial Geography, by Jacques W. Redway doc

... hand, and the history of the one is the history of the other; and whatever maybe the basis of civilization, commerce hasbeen the chief agent by which it has beenspread throughout the world. ... Asianshores by way of the ports of Puget Sound.It is a repetition of the adjustment thatoccurred when the opening of the CapeROUTES TO INDIA THE TURK CHANGES THE COMMERCE OF THE WORLDNow ... Genoese merchantssent their goods to Constantinople andTrebizond, thence down the Tigris Riverto the Persian Gulf and to India. Therewas also another route that had been used by the Phœnicians....

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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Darwiniana, by Thomas Henry Huxley ppt

... when crossed by adistinct species than when fertilised by itsproper pollen! On the other hand, the famous Gaertner, though he took the greatest pains to cross the Primrose and the Cowslip, ... worm,then travels for a space beside the fish,then journeys along with the bird and the reptile for his fellow travellers: and onlyat last, after a brief companionship with the highest of the ... Species;" or they attempt tomeet the more weighty of the unsparingcriticisms with which that great work wasvisited for several years after itsappearance; or they record the impressionleft by the...

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