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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... honor or dis'honor of the deed ; nor whether it was law'ful or un'lawful , wise or un'wise . NOTE VI . - There are two kinds of Emphasis : -Absolute and Antithetic . ABSOLUTE EMPHASIS is used to designate the important words of a ...
... honor or dis'honor of the deed ; nor whether it was law'ful or un'lawful , wise or un'wise . NOTE VI . - There are two kinds of Emphasis : -Absolute and Antithetic . ABSOLUTE EMPHASIS is used to designate the important words of a ...
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... honor in one eye , and death in the other . And I will look on both indifferently . 8. A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart ; his next , to escape the censure of the world . 9. Religion raises , men ...
... honor in one eye , and death in the other . And I will look on both indifferently . 8. A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart ; his next , to escape the censure of the world . 9. Religion raises , men ...
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... honors . 9. But their former companions lingered in the race . They were wanting in the untiring industry and indomitable spirit of perseverance which these twelve men exhibited , and , therefore , they have not stood forth as the ...
... honors . 9. But their former companions lingered in the race . They were wanting in the untiring industry and indomitable spirit of perseverance which these twelve men exhibited , and , therefore , they have not stood forth as the ...
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... HONOR . " 7. " Patriots have toiled , and , in their country's cause , Bled nobly ; and their deeds , as they deserve , Receive proud recompense . We give in charge Their names to the sweet lyre . The historic Muse , Proud of her ...
... HONOR . " 7. " Patriots have toiled , and , in their country's cause , Bled nobly ; and their deeds , as they deserve , Receive proud recompense . We give in charge Their names to the sweet lyre . The historic Muse , Proud of her ...
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... honored dead ; and then gladly dismisses you to repeat again his well - conned lesson to another group of idle passers - by . ness . 5. Such , in its most august form , is all the immortality that matter can confer . It is by what we ...
... honored dead ; and then gladly dismisses you to repeat again his well - conned lesson to another group of idle passers - by . ness . 5. Such , in its most august form , is all the immortality that matter can confer . It is by what we ...
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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!