The School Reader: Fifth Book : Designed as a Sequel to Sanders' Fourth Reader : Part First, Containing Full Instructions in the Rhetorical Principles of Reading and Speaking ... Parts Second and Third, Consisting of Elegant Extracts in Prose and Poetry ... : for the Use of Academies and the Higher Classes in Common and Select Schools |
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... course of Exercises in the science of Elocution , carefully adapted to the intellectual wants of youth , and yet well suited to the exigencies of the school - room . By this process , he comes gradually , though early , to.
... course of Exercises in the science of Elocution , carefully adapted to the intellectual wants of youth , and yet well suited to the exigencies of the school - room . By this process , he comes gradually , though early , to.
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... course of instruction in reading is , in an important sense , a course of instruction in taste and in morals . Hence , in order to the cultivation of delicacy and correctness of taste , it furnishes , for imitation , some of the finest ...
... course of instruction in reading is , in an important sense , a course of instruction in taste and in morals . Hence , in order to the cultivation of delicacy and correctness of taste , it furnishes , for imitation , some of the finest ...
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... course others may take ; but as for me , give me LIBERTY , or give me DEATH ! Idem . 4 . The conflict deepens ! ON , ye brave , Who rush to glory , or the grave ! 5. If I were an American , as I am an Englishman , while a foreign troop ...
... course others may take ; but as for me , give me LIBERTY , or give me DEATH ! Idem . 4 . The conflict deepens ! ON , ye brave , Who rush to glory , or the grave ! 5. If I were an American , as I am an Englishman , while a foreign troop ...
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... course so nearly abreast , that it requires a nice application of the merit guage to give them a difference of rank on the scale of honorary appointments ; and the most sagacious appli- cation of the doctrine of probabilities will not ...
... course so nearly abreast , that it requires a nice application of the merit guage to give them a difference of rank on the scale of honorary appointments ; and the most sagacious appli- cation of the doctrine of probabilities will not ...
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... course with their more energetic companions , their failure and the world's loss must be imputed to their indolence and irresolution . 10. The heart sickens when it sees how many and how powerful are the causes in operation to pervert ...
... course with their more energetic companions , their failure and the world's loss must be imputed to their indolence and irresolution . 10. The heart sickens when it sees how many and how powerful are the causes in operation to pervert ...
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Page 132 - When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union ; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood!
Page 201 - One song employs all nations; and all cry, * Worthy the Lamb, for he was slain for us !* The dwellers in the vales and on the rocks Shout to each other, and the mountain-tops From distant mountains catch the flying joy ; Till, nation after nation taught the strain, Earth rolls the rapturous Hosanna round.
Page 152 - Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of understanding? Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air. Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears.
Page 189 - Who made you glorious as the gates of Heaven Beneath the keen full moon? Who bade the sun Clothe you with rainbows? Who, with living flowers Of loveliest blue, spread garlands at your feet? — God ! let the torrents, like a shout of nations, Answer! and let the ice-plains echo, God!
Page 350 - My panting side was charged when I withdrew To seek a tranquil death in distant shades.^ There was I found by one who had himself Been hurt by the archers. In his side he bore And in his hands and feet the cruel scars. With gentle force soliciting the darts He drew them forth, and healed and bade me live.
Page 236 - For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep; in the morning they are like grass which groweth up. In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
Page 416 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
Page 131 - I profess, sir, in my career hitherto, to have kept steadily in view the prosperity and honor of the whole. country, and the preservation of our Federal Union. It is to that Union we owe our safety at home, and our consideration and dignity abroad.
Page 152 - But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of understanding? Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living. The depth saith, "It is not in me:" and the sea saith,
Page 189 - Ye pine-groves, with your soft and soul-like sounds ! And they too have a voice, yon piles of snow, And in their perilous fall shall thunder, God!