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 SchoolsS. H. Henry & Company, 1836 - 295 стор. |
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... youth may have been committed . Confidence in the favorable reception of this offering arises from the circumstance , that it presents a selection of matter , a portion of which is from American authors . A just pride for the literary ...
... youth may have been committed . Confidence in the favorable reception of this offering arises from the circumstance , that it presents a selection of matter , a portion of which is from American authors . A just pride for the literary ...
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... youth , require themselves the instruction they are expected to give , and have perhaps no other means of acquiring it , than from these elementary books from which it would be withheld . In this stereotype edition , some few ...
... youth , require themselves the instruction they are expected to give , and have perhaps no other means of acquiring it , than from these elementary books from which it would be withheld . In this stereotype edition , some few ...
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... youth hates study . The youth hates tudy . The steadfast stranger in the forests strayed . The steadfas tranger in the fores trayed . Not only are words often mutilated by a careless articulation , but th meaning of whole sentences is ...
... youth hates study . The youth hates tudy . The steadfast stranger in the forests strayed . The steadfas tranger in the fores trayed . Not only are words often mutilated by a careless articulation , but th meaning of whole sentences is ...
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... youth , the comfort of old age , and the only sure guide to honor and preferment . " Aristotle says , that to become an able man in any profes- sion whatever , three things are necessary , -which are , na- ture , study , and practice ...
... youth , the comfort of old age , and the only sure guide to honor and preferment . " Aristotle says , that to become an able man in any profes- sion whatever , three things are necessary , -which are , na- ture , study , and practice ...
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... youth , delights the aged , is an ornament in prosperity , and yields comfort in adversity . a Pre - cip - i - ta ' - tion , rash haste . b Des - cant ' , discourse , comment . c Mirror , a looking glass . 4 De - tac - tion , slander ...
... youth , delights the aged , is an ornament in prosperity , and yields comfort in adversity . a Pre - cip - i - ta ' - tion , rash haste . b Des - cant ' , discourse , comment . c Mirror , a looking glass . 4 De - tac - tion , slander ...
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Сторінка 232 - of the poor. 9. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await, alike, th' inevitable hour;— The paths of glory lead but to the grave. 10. Nor you, ye proud, impute to these the fault, If memory o'er their tomb no trophies raise, Where, through the
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Сторінка 218 - deep sea, and music in its roar: I love not Man the less, but Nature more, From; these our interviews, in which I steal From all I may be, or have been before, To mingle with the Universe, and feel, What I can ne'er express, yet cannot all conceal. 1. There is
Сторінка 208 - On with the dance ! let joy be unconfin'd; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet. To chase the glowing hours with flying feet— But, hark!—that heavy sound breaks in once more. As if the clouds its echo would repeat: And nearer, clearer, deadlier than before! Ann ! Arm', it
Сторінка 208 - Her beauty and her chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men; A thousand hearts beat happily; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell. Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a
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Сторінка 233 - 19. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learned to stray: Along the cool, sequestered vale of life, They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. '.20. Yet ev'n these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial, still erected nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture decked, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh.
Сторінка 176 - joys of life's unmeasur'd way; Thus from afar, each dim discover'd scene, More pleasing seems than all the past hath been And every form that fancy can repair, From dark oblivion, glows divinely there. Night. Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty now stretches forth Her leaden scepter o'er a
Сторінка 208 - opening roar ! 2. But hush! hark! a deep sound strikes like a rising 3. Within a windowed niche of that high hall Sat Brunswick's fated chieftain; he did hear That sound the first amidst the festival, And caught its tone with Death's prophetic ear; And when they smiled because he deem'd it near, His heart