Cobb's Sequel to the Juvenile Readers: Comprising a Selection of Lessons in Prose and Poetry, from Highly Esteemed American Writers : Designed for the Use of Higher Classes in Schools and Academies : and to Impress the Minds of Youth with Sentiments of Virtue and ReligionHarper & Bros., 1834 - 215 страници |
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... beautiful , the wonderful , the useful , and the new . And if , in conformity with the direct tendency of such occupa- tions , he rises from the creature to the Creator COBB'S SEQUEL . 15 The advantages of a Taste for Natural History,
... beautiful , the wonderful , the useful , and the new . And if , in conformity with the direct tendency of such occupa- tions , he rises from the creature to the Creator COBB'S SEQUEL . 15 The advantages of a Taste for Natural History,
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... beautiful without us ; but it will never come into our heads all at once ; we must bring it home by degrees , and there set it up by our own in- dustry , or we shall have nothing but darkness and chaos with- in , whatever order and ...
... beautiful without us ; but it will never come into our heads all at once ; we must bring it home by degrees , and there set it up by our own in- dustry , or we shall have nothing but darkness and chaos with- in , whatever order and ...
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... beautiful ; their bloom appears to be daily heightened ; fresh odours are emitted , and new sweets extracted from them . He who has once tasted their excellences , will desire to taste them again ; and he who tastes them oftenest , will ...
... beautiful ; their bloom appears to be daily heightened ; fresh odours are emitted , and new sweets extracted from them . He who has once tasted their excellences , will desire to taste them again ; and he who tastes them oftenest , will ...
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... beautiful scenes of nature , on which the eye rests with pleasure . 6. Whereas the suspicious man , having his imagination filled with all the shocking forms of human falsehood , deceit , and treachery , resembles the traveller in the ...
... beautiful scenes of nature , on which the eye rests with pleasure . 6. Whereas the suspicious man , having his imagination filled with all the shocking forms of human falsehood , deceit , and treachery , resembles the traveller in the ...
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... beautiful cascades of ten or twelve feet . These steps , which are extremely regular , have been gradually formed by the ac cession of waters the river receives in its progress , at the break . ing up of winter , by the melting of the ...
... beautiful cascades of ten or twelve feet . These steps , which are extremely regular , have been gradually formed by the ac cession of waters the river receives in its progress , at the break . ing up of winter , by the melting of the ...
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Страница 191 - Lo, the poor Indian ! whose untutored mind Sees GOD in clouds, or hears Him in the wind ; His soul proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or Milky Way...
Страница 23 - Though in the paths of death I tread, With gloomy horrors overspread ; My steadfast heart shall fear no ill, For thou, O Lord, art with me still ; Thy friendly crook shall give me aid, And guide me through the dreadful shade Though in a bare and rugged way, Through devious lonely wilds I stray.
Страница 191 - Pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes, Men would be Angels, Angels would be Gods. Aspiring to be Gods, if Angels fell, Aspiring to be Angels, Men rebel: And who but wishes to invert the laws Of Order, sins against th
Страница 196 - For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies...
Страница 83 - TO him who in the love of nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware.
Страница 109 - Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth, when every sport could please, How often have I loitered o'er thy green, Where humble happiness endeared each scene!
Страница 54 - O thou that rollest above, round as the shield of my fathers! Whence are thy beams, O sun! thy everlasting light? Thou comest forth in thy awful beauty; the stars hide themselves in the sky; the moon, cold and pale, sinks in the western wave. But thou thyself movest alone; who can be a companion of thy course?
Страница 126 - Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw: Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite...
Страница 190 - The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
Страница 79 - Tis life to feel the night-wind That lifts his tossing mane. A moment in the British camp — A moment — and away, Back to the pathless forest Before the peep of day. Grave men there are by broad Santee, Grave men with hoary hairs; Their hearts are all with Marion, For Marion are their prayers. And lovely ladies greet our band With kindliest welcoming, With smiles like those of summer, And tears like those of spring. For them we wear these trusty arms, And lay them down no more Till we have driven...