Town's Third Reader: Containing a Selection of Lessons, Exclusively from American AuthorsH. & E. Phinney, 1848 - 288 страници |
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... seen had he lived in England for a thousand years . If a great person has died , or a great deed been done in this island for centuries , they have brought some memento and placed it within these walls . Here we read the story of the ...
... seen had he lived in England for a thousand years . If a great person has died , or a great deed been done in this island for centuries , they have brought some memento and placed it within these walls . Here we read the story of the ...
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... seen successive kingdoms fall , And felt the mighty beat Of Time's deep flood , as thrones , and kings , And crowns , and all earth's proudest things , It scatter'd at thy feet . " Tis vanished ! " like a morning cloud " — The throne ...
... seen successive kingdoms fall , And felt the mighty beat Of Time's deep flood , as thrones , and kings , And crowns , and all earth's proudest things , It scatter'd at thy feet . " Tis vanished ! " like a morning cloud " — The throne ...
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... seen a mist , rising to nearly half the height of the fall , is the veil beneath which the Almighty per- forms his wonders alone , and there is the hiding of his power . This is the spot upon which the eye wishfully fixes , and tries in ...
... seen a mist , rising to nearly half the height of the fall , is the veil beneath which the Almighty per- forms his wonders alone , and there is the hiding of his power . This is the spot upon which the eye wishfully fixes , and tries in ...
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... seen in the light of such a deed as this ! He retired to private life , unambitious of further distinction , and well pleased to escape the din and turmoil of his former days . In the seclusion of his retreat he cultivated the quiet ...
... seen in the light of such a deed as this ! He retired to private life , unambitious of further distinction , and well pleased to escape the din and turmoil of his former days . In the seclusion of his retreat he cultivated the quiet ...
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... seen no more . In another room was a noble pillar , called the Tower of Babel . It is composed entirely of the stalactites of lime , or , as the appearance would seem to suggest , of petrified water . It is about thirty feet in diameter ...
... seen no more . In another room was a noble pillar , called the Tower of Babel . It is composed entirely of the stalactites of lime , or , as the appearance would seem to suggest , of petrified water . It is about thirty feet in diameter ...
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Страница 213 - 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 16 - Motionless torrents! silent cataracts! Who made you glorious as the gates of Heaven Beneath the keen full moon ? Who bade the sun Clothe you with rainbows? Who, with living flowers Of loveliest blue, spread garlands at your feet? God! Let the torrents, like a shout of nations, Answer! and let the ice-plains echo, God!
Страница 15 - Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these...
Страница 222 - Let our object be, our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country. And, by the blessing of God, may that country itself become a vast and splendid monument, not of oppression and terror, but of wisdom, of peace, and of liberty, upon which the world may gazo with admiration, forever I VOL.
Страница 13 - But Paul said unto them, They have beaten us openly uncondemned, being Romans, and have cast us into prison ; and now do they thrust us out privily? nay verily; but let them come themselves and fetch us out.
Страница 228 - Affected passion, intense expression, the pomp of declamation, all may aspire after it — they cannot reach it.
Страница 222 - Our proper business is improvement. Let our age be the age of improvement. In a day of peace, let us advance the arts of peace and the works of peace. Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.
Страница 250 - Happy in the confirmation of our independence and sovereignty, and pleased with the opportunity afforded the United States of becoming a respectable nation, I resign with satisfaction the appointment I accepted with diffidence, — a diffidence in my abilities to accomplish so arduous a task ; which, however, was superseded by a confidence in the rectitude of our cause, the support of the supreme power of the Union, and the patronage of heaven.
Страница 147 - Oh, the grave! The grave! It buries every error — covers every defect — extinguishes every resentment! From its peaceful bosom spring none but fond regrets and tender recollections. Who can look down upon the grave even of an enemy and not feel a compunctious throb that he should ever have warred with the poor handful of earth that lies moldering before him.
Страница 148 - If thou art a child, and hast ever added a sorrow to the soul, or a furrow to the silvered brow of an affectionate parent; if thou art a husband, and hast ever caused the fond bosom that ventured its whole happiness in thy arms to doubt one moment of thy kindness or thy truth...