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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... honor could his name have derived from being mingled , in dusty companionship with the epitaphs , and escutcheons , and venal eulogiums of a titled multitude ? What would a crowded corner in Westminster Abbey have been , compared with ...
... honor could his name have derived from being mingled , in dusty companionship with the epitaphs , and escutcheons , and venal eulogiums of a titled multitude ? What would a crowded corner in Westminster Abbey have been , compared with ...
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... honor , is the people's choice ; the laws we reverence , are our brave fathers ' legacy ; the faith we follow , teaches us to live in bonds of charity with all mankind , and die with the hope of bliss beyond the grave . Tell your ...
... honor , is the people's choice ; the laws we reverence , are our brave fathers ' legacy ; the faith we follow , teaches us to live in bonds of charity with all mankind , and die with the hope of bliss beyond the grave . Tell your ...
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... honors , bloomed with every bliss , Set up in ostentation , made the gaze , The gaudy center , of the public eye ; When fortune thus has tossed her child in air , Snatched from the covert of an humble state , How often have I seen him ...
... honors , bloomed with every bliss , Set up in ostentation , made the gaze , The gaudy center , of the public eye ; When fortune thus has tossed her child in air , Snatched from the covert of an humble state , How often have I seen him ...
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... honor , and glōry , and pōwer , bē unto him that sitteth on the throne , and to the Lamb forever and ever . The seas shall waste , the skies in smoke decay , Rocks fall to dust , and mountains melt away ; QUESTIONS . What is the rule ...
... honor , and glōry , and pōwer , bē unto him that sitteth on the throne , and to the Lamb forever and ever . The seas shall waste , the skies in smoke decay , Rocks fall to dust , and mountains melt away ; QUESTIONS . What is the rule ...
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... the same society ? Knowledge . What raised Franklin from the humble station of a printer's boy to the first honors of the country ? Knowl edge . What took Sherman from his shoemaker's bench , TOWN'S FOURTH READER . 43 Siege of Calais,
... the same society ? Knowledge . What raised Franklin from the humble station of a printer's boy to the first honors of the country ? Knowl edge . What took Sherman from his shoemaker's bench , TOWN'S FOURTH READER . 43 Siege of Calais,
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