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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... whole world . Bible . 6. Ye worship ye know not what : we know what we worship . NOTE . VIII . - The following examples contain two or more sets of Antitheses . 1. I will make the stars of the west the suns of the east . Kossuth . 2. We ...
... whole world . Bible . 6. Ye worship ye know not what : we know what we worship . NOTE . VIII . - The following examples contain two or more sets of Antitheses . 1. I will make the stars of the west the suns of the east . Kossuth . 2. We ...
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... whole inventory of our sources of knowledge . They are the organs by which thought connects itself with the external uni- verse ; but the power of thought is not merged in the exercise . of its instruments . We have functions which ...
... whole inventory of our sources of knowledge . They are the organs by which thought connects itself with the external uni- verse ; but the power of thought is not merged in the exercise . of its instruments . We have functions which ...
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... whole human family for intellectual and moral culture . 13. Then shall such progress be made in science , literature , and art as will throw into the shade all former bright spots in human history ; then will the world learn , for the ...
... whole human family for intellectual and moral culture . 13. Then shall such progress be made in science , literature , and art as will throw into the shade all former bright spots in human history ; then will the world learn , for the ...
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... whole track of our earthly pilgrimage ! How , like a vast army , they stand up in thick array ! And , though their individual strength be small , yet how immense the united energy of the whole great phalanx ! Thus much may be said ...
... whole track of our earthly pilgrimage ! How , like a vast army , they stand up in thick array ! And , though their individual strength be small , yet how immense the united energy of the whole great phalanx ! Thus much may be said ...
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... whole condense , - Be sure your tailor is a man of sense ; But add a little care or decent pride , And always err upon the sober side . Wear seemly gloves , -not black , nor yet too light ; And , least of all , the pair that once was ...
... whole condense , - Be sure your tailor is a man of sense ; But add a little care or decent pride , And always err upon the sober side . Wear seemly gloves , -not black , nor yet too light ; And , least of all , the pair that once was ...
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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!