Sequel to the Primary Reader of Russell's Elementary Series: Designed to Precede Russell and Goldbury's Common-school Series |
Common terms and phrases
Beau marked beautiful bees bird blooms bower breeze bright brothers called cheerful child clouds Constancy coursers creature dear delight dervise earth Elishama Elnathan ERRORS IN PRONUNCIATION example eyes father favourite flower feet Flossy French spaniel garden gentle girl green ground hand head heard heart Helah Howitt Huldah king Saul knew lady lamb lark laughed leaves LESSON light lily little English flower lively look looking-glass Lord loud Mary Howitt merry messenger morning mother nest never night nosegay o'er passed pauses Philistines piece poor pretty Pronounced reading robin robin's nest Robinson Crusoe sing smiled snow soft Somerville song soon sound spider spring stancy sweet tender thee thing thou thought titmouse tones tree Undine utterance violet voice wandering Webster's Dictionary white pigeon wild wind window wings woodpecker word young
Popular passages
Page 163 - Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness.
Page 109 - Toll for the brave ! Brave Kempenfelt is gone ; His last sea-fight is fought ; His work of glory done. It was not in the battle ; No tempest gave the shock ; She sprang no fatal leak...
Page 56 - Away to the window I flew like a flash, Tore open the shutters and threw up the sash. The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow Gave a lustre of midday to objects below; When, what to my wondering eyes should appear, But a miniature sleigh and eight tiny reindeer, With a little old driver, so lively and quick I knew in a moment it must be St.
Page 166 - What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour. Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet...
Page 73 - The dew was falling fast, the stars began to blink ; I heard a voice, it said, Drink, pretty Creature, drink ! And, looking o'er the hedge, before me I espied, A snow-white mountain Lamb with a Maiden at its side.
Page 168 - The floods have lifted up, O Lord, the floods have lifted up their voice : the floods lift up their waves. The Lord on high is mightier than the noise of many waters : yea, than the mighty waves of the sea.
Page 166 - When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; What is man, that thou art mindful of him?
Page 167 - For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him.
Page 61 - With soaring up so high ; Will you rest upon my little bed?" Said the Spider to the Fly. " There are pretty curtains drawn around ; The sheets are fine and thin, And if you like to rest awhile, I'll snugly tuck you in!
Page 167 - THE Lord reigneth, he is clothed with majesty; the Lord is clothed with strength, wherewith he hath girded himself: The world also is stablished, that it cannot be moved. Thy throne is established of old: thou art from everlasting.