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 ...Hilliard, Gray, Little and Wilkins, 1828 - 276 стор. |
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... adapted to American schools ; that it consists exclusively of the productions of British authors ; that it abounds in delineations of British manners , -in descriptions of British scenery , -in eulogies of British heroes and statesmen ...
... adapted to American schools ; that it consists exclusively of the productions of British authors ; that it abounds in delineations of British manners , -in descriptions of British scenery , -in eulogies of British heroes and statesmen ...
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... adapted to some other subject . + Cure - The office or employment of a curate or clergyman . Stole - A long robe worn by the clergy in England . Bridewell - A house of correction . And , like the wolf that stole into the fold 86 ...
... adapted to some other subject . + Cure - The office or employment of a curate or clergyman . Stole - A long robe worn by the clergy in England . Bridewell - A house of correction . And , like the wolf that stole into the fold 86 ...
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... adapted to confer , you should be careful to treat them with tenderness and humanity it is the only return you can make . Re- member , every thing that has life is doomed to suffer and to feel , though its expression of pain may not be ...
... adapted to confer , you should be careful to treat them with tenderness and humanity it is the only return you can make . Re- member , every thing that has life is doomed to suffer and to feel , though its expression of pain may not be ...
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... adapted to serve as coverts . The royalists were also annoyed by the heat , which was excessive , and by a violent wind , which blew a thick dust in their eyes . The enemy's scouts , adding to their natural celerity a perfect knowledge ...
... adapted to serve as coverts . The royalists were also annoyed by the heat , which was excessive , and by a violent wind , which blew a thick dust in their eyes . The enemy's scouts , adding to their natural celerity a perfect knowledge ...
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... adapted than any English com- pilation that has yet appeared , to the state of society as it is in this country , and less obnoxious , to complaint , on the ground of its national or political character , than it is reasonable to expect ...
... adapted than any English com- pilation that has yet appeared , to the state of society as it is in this country , and less obnoxious , to complaint , on the ground of its national or political character , than it is reasonable to expect ...
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Сторінка 142 - Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said, Behold, I thought, He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of the LORD his God, and strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper.
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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...
Сторінка 142 - So he turned and went away in a rage. 13 And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? how much rather then when he saith to thee, Wash and be clean?
Сторінка 143 - And he returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and came, and stood before him: and he said, Behold, now I know that there is no God in all the earth, but in Israel: now therefore, I pray thee, take a blessing of thy servant.
Сторінка 67 - He then led me to the highest pinnacle of the rock, and placing me on the top of it, Cast thy eyes eastward, said he, and tell me what thou seest. I see, said I, a huge valley, and a prodigious tide of water rolling through it.
Сторінка 142 - And it came to pass, when the king of Israel had read the letter, that he rent his clothes, and said, Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man doth send unto me to recover a man of his leprosy ? Wherefore consider, I pray you, and see how he seeketh a quarrel against me.
Сторінка 67 - I see a bridge, said I, standing in the midst of the tide. The bridge thou seest, said he, is human life, consider it attentively. Upon a more leisurely survey of it, I found that it consisted of threescore and ten entire arches, with several broken arches, which, added to those that were entire, made up the number about an hundred.
Сторінка 232 - There, at the foot of yonder nodding beech, That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.
Сторінка 193 - We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow ! Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him ; But little hell reck if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him...