Chapter 1 of Hours in a Library, Volume 2 is here in full — 407 sentences across 82 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
A keeper or guardian of historical records and memories.
Chapter I
Chapter 1 of Hours in a Library, Volume 2 is here in full — 407 sentences across 82 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 1 of Hours in a Library, Volume 2 is here in full — 407 sentences across 82 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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the lower side of anything
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come or bring to a finish or an end
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writing that provides information (especially information of an official nature)
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give or make a list of; name individually; give the names of
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give pleasure to or be pleasing to
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perceive by sight or have the power to perceive by sight
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English keeps certain words together, and knowing the pair is worth more than knowing each word alone. Every partnership below was counted across our whole published library, and earns its place by appearing far more often than two unrelated words of the same frequency would.
Shown as this reading writes them, with the form the library counts, what kind of pairing it is, and how often it occurs.
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used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
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the lower side of anything
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come or bring to a finish or an end
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writing that provides information (especially information of an official nature)
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intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
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the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one or a numeral representing this number
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give or make a list of; name individually; give the names of
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belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
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give pleasure to or be pleasing to
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perceive by sight or have the power to perceive by sight
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used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
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used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned
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Chapter 1 of Hours in a Library, Volume 2 by Leslie Stephen holds 407 sentences, grouped into 82 reading sections of at most 5 sentences. The text is the source edition, unabridged, and the chapter records which sentences cover which part of the work so that nothing is dropped. Every word can be tapped for its pronunciation and dictionary entry.
Chapter 1 holds 407 sentences of Hours in a Library, Volume 2, unabridged, divided into 82 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 1 of Hours in a Library, Volume 2 by Leslie Stephen exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 407 sentences, grouped into 82 sections of at most 5 sentences so that a reader can take the chapter in steady, finishable pieces. The chapter also stores a coverage record mapping every one of its sentences to a part of the work, which is how the edition demonstrates that no line was dropped.
Work through the 82 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 82 sections in this chapter is short enough to read once, hear once, and then re-read with the vocabulary in view. Tapping a word plays it alone and opens its dictionary entry with IPA, part of speech and meaning, so the reader is never forced to guess a pronunciation from spelling. Working section by section keeps a long chapter from becoming an undifferentiated wall of text, which is the usual reason a reader abandons a work of this period.
Yes — every sentence and every individual word in chapter 1 can be played aloud in United States English.
Audio covers the whole chapter: any sentence can be played, and any single word within it can be played on its own. The voice uses United States English. For a work of this period that matters, because spelling is an unreliable guide to pronunciation for vocabulary that has fallen out of daily use, and a learner who guesses wrong tends to keep the error. Hearing the word in its own sentence, and then alone, settles it.
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How to work through Hours in a Library, Volume 2 section by section, using the audio and the tap-to-define vocabulary.
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Words and structures a reader meets early in Hours in a Library, Volume 2, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
