The National Reader: A Selection of Exercises in Reading and Speaking, Designed to Fill the Same Place in the Schools of the United States that is Held in Those of Great Britain, by the Compilations of Murray, Scott, Enfield, Mylius, Thompson, Ewing and OthersRichardson, Lord, and Holbrook, and Hilliard, Gray, Little and Wilkins, 1829 - 276 страници |
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... mind of the reader with a deep sense of the excellence of British institutions , and of the power and glory of the British empire . A book of this character is moving in its proper sphere , and accom- plishing the purpose of its author ...
... mind of the reader with a deep sense of the excellence of British institutions , and of the power and glory of the British empire . A book of this character is moving in its proper sphere , and accom- plishing the purpose of its author ...
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... minds of men would be no less requisite for accomplish- ing the discoveries , which he had in view , than naval skill and an enterprising courage . Happily for himself , and for the country by which he was employed , he joined to the ...
... minds of men would be no less requisite for accomplish- ing the discoveries , which he had in view , than naval skill and an enterprising courage . Happily for himself , and for the country by which he was employed , he joined to the ...
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... mind from his lesson , he does not give heed to them . If they still try to make him idle , he bids them let him alone , and do their own duties . And if , after this , they go on to disturb and vex him , he informs the teacher , that ...
... mind from his lesson , he does not give heed to them . If they still try to make him idle , he bids them let him alone , and do their own duties . And if , after this , they go on to disturb and vex him , he informs the teacher , that ...
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... minds his business as well when his teacher is out of sight , as when he is standing near him , or looking at him . If possible , he is more diligent when his teacher happens for a little to be away from him , that he may show " all ...
... minds his business as well when his teacher is out of sight , as when he is standing near him , or looking at him . If possible , he is more diligent when his teacher happens for a little to be away from him , that he may show " all ...
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... mind - they produce a solemn frame of spirit , which accords with the sentiment of religion . From the contemplation of what is great and magnificent in nature , the soul rises to the Author of all . We think of the time which preceded ...
... mind - they produce a solemn frame of spirit , which accords with the sentiment of religion . From the contemplation of what is great and magnificent in nature , the soul rises to the Author of all . We think of the time which preceded ...
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Страница 24 - Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth : Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole. What though, in solemn silence, all Move round the dark terrestrial ball?
Страница 216 - ... if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained, we must fight ; I repeat it, sir, we must fight! An appeal to arms, and to the God of Hosts, is all that is left us!
Страница 216 - Sir, we are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. Three millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us.
Страница 189 - By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him.
Страница 21 - OH THAT I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me; When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness...
Страница 205 - Amidst the storm they sang, And the stars heard and the sea; And the sounding aisles of the dim woods rang To the anthem of the free...
Страница 85 - Wept o'er his wounds, or, tales of sorrow done. Shouldered his crutch, and showed how fields were won. Pleased with his guests, the good man learned to glow, And quite forgot their vices in their woe ; Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began.
Страница 226 - Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire ; Hands, that the rod of empire might have swayed, Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre...
Страница 68 - There were indeed some persons, but their number was very small, that continued a kind of hobbling march on the broken arches, but fell through one after another, being quite tired and spent with so long a walk.
Страница 67 - The valley that thou seest, said he, is the vale of misery, and the tide of water that thou seest is part of the great tide of eternity. What is the reason, said I, that the tide I see rises out of a thick mist at one end, and again loses itself in a thick mist at the other? What thou seest, said he, is that portion of eternity which is called time, measured out by the sun, and reaching from the beginning of the world to its consummation. Examine now...