A series of lessons, in prose and verse, progessively arranged [ed.] by J.M. M'CullochJames Melville M'Culloch 1831 |
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... carry it home ! not even my wife should see me : and then , O the pleasure of thrusting one's hand into a heap of gold up to the elbow ! " Such reflec- tions only served to make the miller unhappy : he dis- continued his former ...
... carry it home ! not even my wife should see me : and then , O the pleasure of thrusting one's hand into a heap of gold up to the elbow ! " Such reflec- tions only served to make the miller unhappy : he dis- continued his former ...
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... carried off . However , I have met with a story which shows that they are not without some sense of the criminality ... carrying off any of the young ones , they all unite to drive him away . And when they are feeding in a flock ...
... carried off . However , I have met with a story which shows that they are not without some sense of the criminality ... carrying off any of the young ones , they all unite to drive him away . And when they are feeding in a flock ...
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... carry him , and was standing with his neck drawn in , looking intently on the stream . Presently he darted his long bill as quick as lightning into the water , and drew out a fish which he swallowed . I saw him catch another in the same ...
... carry him , and was standing with his neck drawn in , looking intently on the stream . Presently he darted his long bill as quick as lightning into the water , and drew out a fish which he swallowed . I saw him catch another in the same ...
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... one elephant drawing as much as six horses , and are of great use in carrying great quanti- ties of luggage across rivers . They can travel nearly a hundred miles a - day , and fifty or sixty SECT . I. 31 A SERIES OF LESSONS .
... one elephant drawing as much as six horses , and are of great use in carrying great quanti- ties of luggage across rivers . They can travel nearly a hundred miles a - day , and fifty or sixty SECT . I. 31 A SERIES OF LESSONS .
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... carried to wharfs on the river - side , to be put on board the vessels that wait to carry them to distant ports . The waggons , very heavily laden , run without horses to the water - side , along a rail - road formed in a sloping ...
... carried to wharfs on the river - side , to be put on board the vessels that wait to carry them to distant ports . The waggons , very heavily laden , run without horses to the water - side , along a rail - road formed in a sloping ...
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Сторінка 211 - And Ardennes waves above them her green leaves, Dewy with nature's tear-drops, as they pass, Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave, — alas ! Ere evening to be trodden like the grass...
Сторінка 211 - twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street; On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the glowing Hours with flying feet But hark!
Сторінка 62 - Say, shall we yield Him, in costly devotion, Odors of Edom, and offerings divine ? Gems of the mountain, and pearls of the ocean, Myrrh from the forest, and gold from the mine ? 4 Vainly we offer each ample oblation, Vainly with gifts would His favor secure ; Richer by far is the heart's adoration, Dearer to GOD are the prayers of the poor.
Сторінка 212 - King is come to marshal us, in all his armor drest, And he has bound a snow-white plume upon his gallant crest. He looked upon his people, and a tear was in his eye ; He looked upon the traitors, and his glance was stern and high. Right graciously he smiled on us, as rolled from wing to wing, Down all our line, a deafening shout,
Сторінка 61 - BRIGHTEST and best of the sons of the morning ! Dawn on our darkness, and lend us Thine aid ! Star of the east, the horizon adorning, Guide where our infant Redeemer is laid...
Сторінка 213 - Ho ! maidens of Vienna ; ho ! matrons of Lucerne ; Weep, weep, and rend your hair for those who never shall return. Ho ! Philip, send, for charity, thy Mexican pistoles, That Antwerp monks may sing a mass for thy poor spearmen's souls.
Сторінка 49 - On Linden, when the sun was low, All bloodless lay the untrodden snow ; And dark as winter was the flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly. But Linden saw another sight, When the drum beat at dead of night, Commanding fires of death to light The darkness of her scenery.
Сторінка 74 - THE stately homes of England, How beautiful they stand ! Amidst their tall ancestral trees, O'er all the pleasant land ! The deer across their greensward bound Through shade and sunny gleam, And the swan glides past them with the sound Of some rejoicing stream.
Сторінка 211 - Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve in Beauty's circle proudly gay, The midnight brought the signal-sound of strife, The morn the marshalling in arms, — the day Battle's...
Сторінка 210 - 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! Arm! Arm! it is— it is— the cannon's opening roar!