The Fourth Reader, Or, Exercises in Reading and Speaking: Designed for the Higher Classes in Our Public and Private SchoolsA selection of famed verse and prose, including that by Washington Irving, Sir Isaac Watts, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Fenimore Cooper, Shakespeare, and others. |
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... fire is able to consume it ; if upon friends , health , or life , a thousand diseases , and ten thousand events , have power to destroy it ; but if it be founded upon the infinite bounty and goodness of God , and upon those virtues that ...
... fire is able to consume it ; if upon friends , health , or life , a thousand diseases , and ten thousand events , have power to destroy it ; but if it be founded upon the infinite bounty and goodness of God , and upon those virtues that ...
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... fires began to burn ! S. Now , shining forth , thou mad'st compliant The Conscript Fathers to thy charms ; Roused the world - bestriding giant , Sinking fast in Slavery's arms ! 9. I see thee stand by Freedom's fane , Pouring 6 * TOWN'S ...
... fires began to burn ! S. Now , shining forth , thou mad'st compliant The Conscript Fathers to thy charms ; Roused the world - bestriding giant , Sinking fast in Slavery's arms ! 9. I see thee stand by Freedom's fane , Pouring 6 * TOWN'S ...
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... desire , He asks no angel's wing , no seraph's fire ; But thinks , admitted to that equal sky , His faithful dog shall bear him company . PART II . * EXERCISES IN READING . LESSON I. 74 TOWN'S FOURTH READER . Western Emigration,
... desire , He asks no angel's wing , no seraph's fire ; But thinks , admitted to that equal sky , His faithful dog shall bear him company . PART II . * EXERCISES IN READING . LESSON I. 74 TOWN'S FOURTH READER . Western Emigration,
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... fire , the Teutonic phlegm , had long ago been molded , one would deem , for some great purpose , into one grand national stock ; and to this race , when it had attained the fulness and perfection of its strength , was the conquest of ...
... fire , the Teutonic phlegm , had long ago been molded , one would deem , for some great purpose , into one grand national stock ; and to this race , when it had attained the fulness and perfection of its strength , was the conquest of ...
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... fires of their councils rose in every valley , from Hudson's Bay to the far- thest Florida , from the ocean to the Mississippi and the lakes . 3. The shouts of victory and the war - dance rang through the mountains and the glades . The ...
... fires of their councils rose in every valley , from Hudson's Bay to the far- thest Florida , from the ocean to the Mississippi and the lakes . 3. The shouts of victory and the war - dance rang through the mountains and the glades . The ...
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