The New Instructor; Being the Second Part of the American Spelling-Book - Designed for the Use of Our Common Schools: And as an Easy Introduction to the Art of Spelling and Reading the English Language with Propriety ... (Paperback)

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. 1803 Excerpt: ...flam beau, flam' bo, n. a fi ftan c/'eV, n. one who col-lighted torch lects the public revenue flat' u lent, a. empty, windy siv nis, n. conclusion, end Ilex' i bile, a. easy to be bent, siv nite, a. limited, bounded pliant sirm' a ment, n. the iky (ly flor' id, a. rosy, blooming sirm ly, ferm' le, ad. strong-flue' tu ate, v. to float, to be where they ar.e fold to the planters of sugar-piantattons.; and afterwards employed in the hardest: and most servile occupations; and pass the rest of their lives in flavery and wretchedness. Sophia. How much my heart feels for them How agonizing must it be, to be separated from one's near relations parents perhaps divided from their children for ever; husbands from their wives; brothers and, sifters obliged to bid each other a sinal farewell --But why do the kings of the African states suffer theitf subjects to be fo cruelly treated?--Mother. Many causes have operated to induce thfe African princes to become assistants in this insamous trassic; and instead of being the desenders of their harmless people, they have frequently hstrayed them to their most cruel enemies. The Europeans have corrupted these ignorant rulers, by presents of rum, and other spirituous liquors, of which they are immoderately fond. They have fomented jealousies, bud excited wars amongst them, merely for the; fake of obtaining the prifoners of War for flaves.--Frequently they use no ceremony, but go on shore in the night, set sire to a neighboring village, and seize in an unsettled state..fiV ent, a. flowing, copious siV en cjf, n. readiness, eloquence flu' id, rt. animal juices, what nms or flows; a. not folid (or quality flu id' i ty, n. a fluid Hate, for ble, tt. a weak flue, failing fov li age, n. leave, lusts of leaves for io, r.. a large bo...