Excerpt from Dictation Exercises The following exercises are founded upon this principle; yet there is no royal road to learning. Dictation Lessons may be very help ful if constantly repeated, and rules will be very useful if thoroughly understood and re membered; but to go through an exercise once, and then consider the work accomplished, is a mere waste of time. The Dictation Exercises should first be given to the pupil to read and study till the look as well as the sound of the words has been well imprinted on the mind. They should then be read aloud by the teacher; and, if the Whole of the exercise is considered too long for dictation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.