Analytical Fourth [-sixth] Reader: Containing Practical Directions for Reading ... Designed for the Use of Classes in Common SchoolsTaintor & Company, 1867 |
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... present a com- pendium of English literature , nor to disclose the facts and principles of any other science or art . Its sole purpose is to teach young persons to appreciate and to read good English . Reading is not only the key to all ...
... present a com- pendium of English literature , nor to disclose the facts and principles of any other science or art . Its sole purpose is to teach young persons to appreciate and to read good English . Reading is not only the key to all ...
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... present to the common eye ; and Webster's rather than Worcester's , because we have reason to think that more teachers are already some- what familiar with the former than with the latter . 7. No good teacher will omit to give explicit ...
... present to the common eye ; and Webster's rather than Worcester's , because we have reason to think that more teachers are already some- what familiar with the former than with the latter . 7. No good teacher will omit to give explicit ...
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... present the appearance of a human face in profile . All the sur- rounding scenery is romantic and impressive . The face has a grave and thoughtful aspect . Every year the scene is visited by multitudes of curious travelers . 1. Where a ...
... present the appearance of a human face in profile . All the sur- rounding scenery is romantic and impressive . The face has a grave and thoughtful aspect . Every year the scene is visited by multitudes of curious travelers . 1. Where a ...
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... present on that occasion , we should have said , had we thought of it at all , What per- fect nonsense ! For it is likely that the scales would have been upon our eyes , and the dust in our atmosphere , so that we should not have ...
... present on that occasion , we should have said , had we thought of it at all , What per- fect nonsense ! For it is likely that the scales would have been upon our eyes , and the dust in our atmosphere , so that we should not have ...
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... present is sure to send ; Every year , wheresoever we be , He wants a keepsake from you and me . 9. How he loves us ! -He pats our heads , And , lo ! they are gleaming with silver threads ; And he's always begging one lock of hair ...
... present is sure to send ; Every year , wheresoever we be , He wants a keepsake from you and me . 9. How he loves us ! -He pats our heads , And , lo ! they are gleaming with silver threads ; And he's always begging one lock of hair ...
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Page 114 - Wept o'er his wounds, or tales of sorrow done, Shouldered his crutch, and showed how fields were won. Pleased with his guests, the good man learned to glow, And quite forgot their vices in their woe ; Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began.
Page 361 - Work - work work Till the brain begins to swim! Work - work - work Till the eyes are heavy and dim! Seam , and gusset , and band , Band , and gusset , and seam , Till over the buttons I fall asleep, And sew them on in a dream! "O men with sisters dear! O men with mothers and wives! It is not linen you're wearing out , But human creatures
Page 253 - Towards the preservation of your government, and the permanency of your present happy state, it is requisite, not only that you steadily discountenance irregular oppositions to its acknowledged authority, but also that you resist with care the spirit of innovation upon its principles however specious the pretexts.
Page 115 - Beside the bed where parting life was laid, And sorrow, guilt, and pain, by turns dismayed, The reverend champion stood. At his control, Despair and anguish fled the struggling soul ; Comfort came down the trembling wretch to raise And his last faltering accents whispered praise.
Page 404 - Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free ; They touch our country, and their shackles fall.
Page 59 - tis said, when all were fired, Filled with fury, rapt, inspired, From the supporting myrtles round They snatched her instruments of sound ; And, as they oft had heard apart Sweet lessons of her forceful art, Each (for Madness ruled the hour) Would prove his own expressive power.
Page 252 - This Government, the offspring of our own choice, uninfluenced and unawed, adopted upon full investigation and mature deliberation, completely free in its principles, in the distribution of its powers, uniting security with energy, and containing within itself a provision for its own amendment, has a just claim to your confidence and your support.
Page 137 - That there wasn'ta chance for one to start. For the wheels were just as strong as the thills, And the floor was just as strong as the sills, And the panels just as strong as the floor, And the whippletree neither less nor more, And the back cross-bar as strong as the fore, And spring and axle and hub encore.
Page 252 - All obstructions to the execution of the laws, all combinations and associations, under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, control, counteract, or awe the regular deliberation and action of the constituted authorities, are destructive of this fundamental principle and of fatal tendency.
Page 404 - Lands intersected by a narrow frith Abhor each other. Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one.