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FIRST PART.

HISTORY AND PROGRESS OF LANGUAGE.

INTRODUCTION.

INSTRUCTION I.

INFANT CHILDREN HAVE NO WORDS, AND PICK THEM UP, ONE BY ONE.

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PROFESSOR CADMUS was a scholar and a Christian. family consisted of a wife and three children-two boys and a lovely daughter. Mrs. Cadmus was a well-educated, cheerful, pious lady. The family mansion was after the old English style. If you have ever seen the house and grounds of Professor Longfellow, at Cambridge, Massachusetts, you have seen something very like it. The study was a large and roomy one. It was well furnished with books. The alcoves were arranged very much like the libraries of Yale College and Nassau Hall. Between the alcoves hung rare old pictures; and under them, stood pieces of statuary. Truth and taste presided over the mansion. It was a place where angels might have turned aside in their visits of mercy to look for pleasing incidents to carry back to heaven.

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