Readings in prose and verse: or, No.iv of a new series of school-booksAssociation, 1847 - 144 стор. |
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... never have fancied how many things are made of water ! " cried Willy . " Snow is made of water , and ice is made of water , and steam is made of water . " " There is this difference , " said his mamma ; 66 water is turned into snow and ...
... never have fancied how many things are made of water ! " cried Willy . " Snow is made of water , and ice is made of water , and steam is made of water . " " There is this difference , " said his mamma ; 66 water is turned into snow and ...
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... never lays more than one egg in the same nest . No sooner have the eggs been hatched , than the young cuckoo contrives to turn out the other young ones , and thus becomes the sole object of its nurse's care . A person saw it perform ...
... never lays more than one egg in the same nest . No sooner have the eggs been hatched , than the young cuckoo contrives to turn out the other young ones , and thus becomes the sole object of its nurse's care . A person saw it perform ...
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... of the young cuckoo is very rapid . It has a plaintive chirp , which is not learned from its foster parent ; and it never acquires the note of a full - grown bird during its stay in this country . It shows a fierce 27.
... of the young cuckoo is very rapid . It has a plaintive chirp , which is not learned from its foster parent ; and it never acquires the note of a full - grown bird during its stay in this country . It shows a fierce 27.
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... never applied it to any useful purpose ; and it was probably a very scarce production among them . We read , in history , of the Emperor Nero breaking a glass cup , which cost fifty thousand pounds . Windows have been made of the skins ...
... never applied it to any useful purpose ; and it was probably a very scarce production among them . We read , in history , of the Emperor Nero breaking a glass cup , which cost fifty thousand pounds . Windows have been made of the skins ...
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... never repined or betrayed impatience . A friend asked him if he could tell by what means he contrived to be always satisfied . " Yes , " replied the good old man . " I can teach you my secret , and with great facility . It consists in ...
... never repined or betrayed impatience . A friend asked him if he could tell by what means he contrived to be always satisfied . " Yes , " replied the good old man . " I can teach you my secret , and with great facility . It consists in ...
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army Baliol battle beast beautiful behold bird brave bread brother called cloth coat colour corn creature cried cuckoo dreamed a dream Eagle earth English eyes Falkirk famine father William feet flax flowers green ground hand hath heaven HISTORY OF SCOTLAND Hugh Cressingham Ishmaelites Israel Joseph said unto killed kind King of England King of Scotland kingdom kingdom of Scotland land of Canaan land of Egypt Lion live look Lord maid Maid of Norway mamma mill mountains nest night Norway parlour plant pony Potiphar pray prey prison Queen of Scotland raoh sack Scots Scottish sent sheep smoke sorrow spring steam stone Swallow sweet tell thee thing thou hast thy servant tree turned unto his brethren unto Joseph Wallace William the Lion Willy wings wood wool young youth
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Сторінка 62 - Then Joseph could not refrain himself before all them that stood by him ; and he cried, Cause every man to go out from me.
Сторінка 65 - And Joseph made ready his chariot, and went up to meet Israel his father, to Goshen, and presented himself unto him ; and he fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while. And Israel said unto Joseph, Now let me die, since I have seen thy face, because thou art yet alive.
Сторінка 65 - And they told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said unto them : and when he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob their father revived : and Israel said, It is enough ; Joseph my son is yet alive : I will go and see him before I die.
Сторінка 63 - And ye shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that ye have seen ; and ye shall haste and bring down my father hither.
Сторінка 120 - OFT I had heard of Lucy Gray : And, when I crossed the wild, I chanced to see at break of day The solitary child. No mate, no comrade Lucy knew ; She dwelt on a wide moor — The sweetest thing that ever grew Beside a human door ! You yet may spy the fawn at play, The hare upon the green ; But the sweet face of Lucy Gray Will never more be seen. " To-night will be a stormy night — You to the town must go ; And take a lantern, child, to light Your mother through the snow.
Сторінка 130 - This world is all a fleeting show For man's illusion given ; The smiles of joy, the tears of woe, Deceitful shine, deceitful flow, — There's nothing true but Heaven...
Сторінка 22 - I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding ; and, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
Сторінка 131 - THOU art, O God ! the life and light Of all this wondrous world we see ; Its glow by day, its smile by night, Are but reflections caught from thee. Where'er we turn thy glories shine, And all things fair and bright are thine.
Сторінка 131 - God, the life and light •*• Of all this wondrous world we see ; Its glow by day, its smile by night, Are but reflections caught from thee. Where'er we turn, thy glories shine, And all things fair and bright are thine. When day, with farewell beam, delays Among the opening clouds of even, And we can almost think we gaze Through golden vistas into heaven, — Those hues, that mark the sun's decline So soft, so radiant, Lord, are thine.
Сторінка 68 - And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind : for the LORD searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.