The American First Class Book, Or, Exercises in Reading and Recitation: Selected Principally from Modern Authors of Great Britain and America : and Designed for the Use of the Highest Class in Publick and Private Schools |
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... deep as to grow up and flourish in our hearts ; and all along , till it at- tains to its perfect vigour and maturity in heaven , it needs to be defended from the adverse influences of things seen and temporal , of a vain imagination and ...
... deep as to grow up and flourish in our hearts ; and all along , till it at- tains to its perfect vigour and maturity in heaven , it needs to be defended from the adverse influences of things seen and temporal , of a vain imagination and ...
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... deep serene , And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene ; Around her throne the vivid planets roll , And stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole , O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed , And tip with silver every mountain's head ...
... deep serene , And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene ; Around her throne the vivid planets roll , And stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole , O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed , And tip with silver every mountain's head ...
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... Deep mourns the turtle in sequester'd bower , And shrill lark carols clear from her aërial tower . The beauties of Nature . - BEATTIE . O how canst thou renounce the boundless store Of charms that nature to her votary yields ! The ...
... Deep mourns the turtle in sequester'd bower , And shrill lark carols clear from her aërial tower . The beauties of Nature . - BEATTIE . O how canst thou renounce the boundless store Of charms that nature to her votary yields ! The ...
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... deep . A sacrifice was never yet offered to a principle , that was not made up to us by self approval , and the consideration of what our degradation would have been had we done otherwisc . Certainly , it is a pleasant and a wise thing ...
... deep . A sacrifice was never yet offered to a principle , that was not made up to us by self approval , and the consideration of what our degradation would have been had we done otherwisc . Certainly , it is a pleasant and a wise thing ...
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... deep feeling and concern , yet in domestick relations , which are so near , and usual , and private , they feel longer and more deeply than those who look upon their homes as only a better part of the world which they belong to . Indeed ...
... deep feeling and concern , yet in domestick relations , which are so near , and usual , and private , they feel longer and more deeply than those who look upon their homes as only a better part of the world which they belong to . Indeed ...
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