The American Manual, Or, New English Reader: Consisting of Exercises in Reading and Speaking, Both in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best Writers : to which are Added, a Succinct History of the Colonies, from the Discovery of North America to the Close of the War of the Revolution, the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States, and of the State of New York : for the Use of SchoolsHenry, Hitchcock, & Company, 1841 - 300 стор. |
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... death of the cross , a Roman citizen ! " " High on a throne of royal state , which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Inde ; Or where the gorgeous East , with richest hand , Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold , Satan ...
... death of the cross , a Roman citizen ! " " High on a throne of royal state , which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Inde ; Or where the gorgeous East , with richest hand , Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold , Satan ...
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... death . Fear unruly passions more than the arrows of an enemy ; and the slavery of them more than the fetters of a conqueror . It is more prudent to pass by trivial offenses , than to quarrel for them : by the last you are even with ...
... death . Fear unruly passions more than the arrows of an enemy ; and the slavery of them more than the fetters of a conqueror . It is more prudent to pass by trivial offenses , than to quarrel for them : by the last you are even with ...
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... death alone had extorted from him ; that he took this opportunity of atoning for his error by a sincere and open recantation , and was willing to seal with his blood that doctrine , which he firmly believed to be communicated from ...
... death alone had extorted from him ; that he took this opportunity of atoning for his error by a sincere and open recantation , and was willing to seal with his blood that doctrine , which he firmly believed to be communicated from ...
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... Death of Socrates . 1. SOCRATES , the famous Greek philosopher , a was born at Athens , about 451 years before Christ . He gave early proofs of his valor in the service of his country , but chiefly applied himself to the study of ...
... Death of Socrates . 1. SOCRATES , the famous Greek philosopher , a was born at Athens , about 451 years before Christ . He gave early proofs of his valor in the service of his country , but chiefly applied himself to the study of ...
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... - pla - ry , worthy of hnitation . e Mar ' - tyr , one who is put to death for the truth . f Pa ' - gan , an idolater . g Cic - e - ro , a Roman orator . against him , the faction was powerful enough to find 32 PART 1 . NEW ENGLISH READER .
... - pla - ry , worthy of hnitation . e Mar ' - tyr , one who is put to death for the truth . f Pa ' - gan , an idolater . g Cic - e - ro , a Roman orator . against him , the faction was powerful enough to find 32 PART 1 . NEW ENGLISH READER .
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Сторінка 202 - Then kneeling down, to Heaven's eternal King, The saint, the father, and the husband prays: Hope "springs exulting on triumphant wing," That thus they all shall meet in future days, There ever bask in uncreated rays, No more to sigh, or shed the bitter tear, Together hymning their Creator's praise. In such society, yet still more dear; While circling time moves round in an eternal sphere.
Сторінка 269 - To establish post offices and post roads; To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries...
Сторінка 207 - Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they? Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since ; their shores obey The stranger, slave or savage ; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts — not so thou Unchangeable, save to thy wild waves
Сторінка 109 - There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone ; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.
Сторінка 109 - We have petitioned ; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and parliament. Our petitions have been slighted ; our remonstrances have produced additional violence and insult; our supplications have been disregarded; and we have been spurned with contempt from the foot of the throne.
Сторінка 223 - Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere, Heaven did a recompense as largely send: He gave to Misery all he had, a tear, He gained from Heaven ('twas all he wished) a friend.
Сторінка 109 - If we wish to be free, if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending, 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 ! They tell us, sir, that we are weak, unable to cope...
Сторінка 108 - I ask, gentlemen — sir — what means this martial array, if its purpose be not to force us to submission ? Can gentlemen assign any other possible motive for it ? Has Great Britain any enemy in this quarter of the world, to call for all this accumulation of navies and armies?
Сторінка 221 - 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...
Сторінка 108 - Has Great Britain any enemy in this quarter of the world, to call for all this accumulation of navies and armies? No, sir, she has none. They are meant for us: they can be meant for no other. They are sent over to bind and rivet upon us those chains, which the British ministry have been so long forging.