Common School Education: Devoted to the Art of Instruction, Том 3

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Eastern Educational Bureau, 1889
 

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Страница 80 - meteor, a fast-flying cloud, A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave, He passeth from life to his rest in the grave. "The infant a mother attended and loved; The mother that infant's affection who proved ; The husband that mother and infant who blessed, — Each, all, are away to their dwellings
Страница 212 - doubtless very big, But all sorts of things and weather Must be taken in together To make up a year And a sphere: And 1 think it no disgrace To occupy my place. If I'm not so large as you, You are not so small us
Страница 78 - rejoice that the state of your concerns, external as well as internal, no longer renders the pursuit of inclination incompatible with the sentiment of duty or propriety; and am persuaded whatever partiality may be retained for my services, that in the present circumstances of our country you will not disapprove my determination to retire.
Страница 80 - I know there is a God, and that He hates injustice and slavery. I see the storm coming, and I know that His hand is in it. If He has a place and a work for me, and I think He has, I believe I am ready. I am nothing, but Truth is everything. I know
Страница 78 - after forty-five years of my life dedicated to its service, with an upright zeal, that the faults of incompetent abilities will be consigned to oblivion, as myself must soon be to the mansions of rest.
Страница 418 - In the midst of his bewilderment, the man in the cocked hat demanded, who he was, and what was his name? " " God knows," exclaimed he, at his wit's end ; " I'm not myself— I'm somebody else — that's me yonder—no — that's somebody else got into my shoes — I was myself last night, but I fell asleep in the mountain, and they've changed my gun, and
Страница 78 - were temporary, I have the consolation to believe that while choice and prudence invite me to quit the political scene, patriotism does not forbid it. "Though in reviewing the incidents of my administration I am unconscious of intentional error, I am nevertheless too sensible of my defects not to think it probable that I may have committed many errors. Whatever they may be, I
Страница 177 - in the following : — A wind came up out of the sea, And said, O mists, make room for me. It hailed the ship and cried Sail on, Ye mariners ; the night is gone. And hurried landward far away. Crying, Awake ! it is the day.
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Страница 34 - ve had wi' ane anither: Now we maun totter down, John, But hand in hand we '11 go, And sleep thegither at the foot, John Anderson, my jo.

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