Harper's First [-sixth] Reader, Book 5Orville T. Bright, James Baldwin American Book Company, 1889 - Readers |
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... hope my grave will be . Old homestead ! ' In that old gray town , Thy vane is seaward blowing , Thy slip of garden stretches down To where the tide is flowing ; Below they lie , their sails all furled , The ships that go about the world ...
... hope my grave will be . Old homestead ! ' In that old gray town , Thy vane is seaward blowing , Thy slip of garden stretches down To where the tide is flowing ; Below they lie , their sails all furled , The ships that go about the world ...
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... hope not . Owls are seemingly only mouse - hunters , and as such the world should wel- come and protect them . 20 Even yet migratory birds are dropping in every hour of the day and night . As I passed by the maples in the lane there was ...
... hope not . Owls are seemingly only mouse - hunters , and as such the world should wel- come and protect them . 20 Even yet migratory birds are dropping in every hour of the day and night . As I passed by the maples in the lane there was ...
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... hope was left . The only hope was in such desperate exertions as each could make for himself . Order and subordination were at an end . Intense dan- ger produced intense selfishness . Each thought only of his own life . Pressing forward ...
... hope was left . The only hope was in such desperate exertions as each could make for himself . Order and subordination were at an end . Intense dan- ger produced intense selfishness . Each thought only of his own life . Pressing forward ...
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... hope and fear , exultation or disappointment , to afford us a single hour of true serenity . This idea may be illustrated by a page from the secret history of David Swan . We have nothing to do with David until we find 20 him , at the ...
... hope and fear , exultation or disappointment , to afford us a single hour of true serenity . This idea may be illustrated by a page from the secret history of David Swan . We have nothing to do with David until we find 20 him , at the ...
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... hope . When spontaneous , it shows that our nature is sound at 15 the core ; when wrought into a conscious habit , it reveals the divine glory that every life may take on . 10 One imbued with this high quality never sees per- sonal ...
... hope . When spontaneous , it shows that our nature is sound at 15 the core ; when wrought into a conscious habit , it reveals the divine glory that every life may take on . 10 One imbued with this high quality never sees per- sonal ...
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Page 94 - They tell us, sir, that we are weak — unable to cope with so formidable an adversary; but when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house ! Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction?
Page 429 - Fondly do we hope — fervently do we pray — that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years...
Page 345 - Or lose thyself in the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound, Save his own dashings — yet — the dead are there ; And millions in those solitudes, since first The flight of years began, have laid them down In their last sleep — the dead reign there alone.
Page 286 - ... it is of infinite moment that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national union to your collective and individual happiness; that you should cherish a cordial, habitual, and immovable attachment to it; accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the palladium of your political safety and prosperity, watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned...
Page 433 - You've fallen cold and dead. My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still, My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will, The ship is...
Page 287 - The name of AMERICAN, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism, more than any appellation derived from local discriminations. With slight shades of difference, you have the same Religion, Manners, Habits, and Political Principles. You have in a common cause fought and triumphed together; the Independence and Liberty you possess are the work of joint counsels, and joint efforts — of common dangers, sufferings, and successes.
Page 344 - Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim Thy growth, to be resolved to earth again, And, lost each human trace, surrendering up Thine individual being, shalt thou go To mix forever with the elements, To be a brother to the insensible rock And to the sluggish clod, which the rude swain Turns with his share, and treads upon.
Page 428 - The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself; and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured. On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago, all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war.
Page 94 - There is no longer any room for hope. If we wish to be free — if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending — if we mean not basely to abandon...
Page 95 - The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest; there is no retreat but in submission and slavery. Our chains are forged; their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston; the war is inevitable, and let it come; I repeat it, sir, — let it come! It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry peace, peace!