Reading Book for the Use of Female Schoolsdirection of the Commissioners of National Education, 1839 - 408 páginas |
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... present day , is observed to be remarkably round . In the province of Old Port , in the West Indies , the square head being admired , that form was obtained by compressing the infant's head between boards , which enclosed it on all ...
... present day , is observed to be remarkably round . In the province of Old Port , in the West Indies , the square head being admired , that form was obtained by compressing the infant's head between boards , which enclosed it on all ...
Página 28
... present themselves in the discharge of their duties . But , to one who is condemned to long illness , trifles become great events . A good nurse will acquire a tenderness for her charge which will lead her to be very considerate , in ...
... present themselves in the discharge of their duties . But , to one who is condemned to long illness , trifles become great events . A good nurse will acquire a tenderness for her charge which will lead her to be very considerate , in ...
Página 63
... present in interest . TO MY CHILD AT PLAY . PLAY on , my little one ! fair is thine hour ; How jocund thy spirit , how cloudless and bright ! While care haunts the court , and the camp , and the bower ; Thy heart only feels the warm ...
... present in interest . TO MY CHILD AT PLAY . PLAY on , my little one ! fair is thine hour ; How jocund thy spirit , how cloudless and bright ! While care haunts the court , and the camp , and the bower ; Thy heart only feels the warm ...
Página 110
... present with the instructions he had re- ceived , and to defer the remainder of the discussion till the morrow . " How ! " exclaimed the novice , " say you not that death may come at any hour ? -may it not then come this hour ? -and ...
... present with the instructions he had re- ceived , and to defer the remainder of the discussion till the morrow . " How ! " exclaimed the novice , " say you not that death may come at any hour ? -may it not then come this hour ? -and ...
Página 112
... present . They will relate a fact , not falsely , but leaning to that side which tells best for themselves ; they represent their own actions in the fairest colours . Such conduct , if not direct falsehood , is certainly a species of ...
... present . They will relate a fact , not falsely , but leaning to that side which tells best for themselves ; they represent their own actions in the fairest colours . Such conduct , if not direct falsehood , is certainly a species of ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
animal appear Athaliah attention beauty beneath birds bless breast breath bright called cheerful child clothes cold colour Darius Hystaspes dark dear death delight duty earth Edom Egypt emery paper Fairy Rings feel fire flowers friends fungi gentle girl give Greece habits hand happy hath head heart heaven hope hour Indians infant insect Jane Judea kind labour land LANTERN FLY leaves light live look Lucy Lydia Sigourney MAMMA MASTER mind morning mother nature nerally never night nursling o'er pain parents pass peace Persian persons pleasure poison'd punishment quadrupeds reason Rehoboam reign round servants sick sisters smile soon sorrow soul spirit sweet Syria taught tears tell temper tempest tender thee thine thing thou thought tree turn voice walk wigwam winds wings wish wood young
Passagens conhecidas
Página 78 - Falsely luxurious ! will not man awake ; And, springing from the bed of sloth, enjoy The cool, the fragrant, and the silent hour, To meditation due, and sacred song...
Página 138 - How much more than is necessary do we spend in sleep, forgetting that The sleeping Fox catches no Poultry, and that There will be sleeping enough in the Grave, as Poor Richard says.
Página 209 - Shoots into port at some well-havened isle, Where spices breathe and brighter seasons smile, There sits quiescent on the floods, that show Her beauteous form reflected clear below, While airs impregnated with incense play Around her, fanning light her streamers gay, So thou, with sails how swift, hast reached the shore 'Where tempests never beat nor billows roar,' And thy loved consort on the dangerous tide Of life long since has anchored by thy side.
Página 283 - And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the LORD : and he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.
Página 210 - My boast is not, that I deduce my birth From loins enthroned and rulers of the earth ; But higher far my proud pretensions rise — The son of parents passed into the skies ! And now, farewell.
Página 297 - How soft the music of those village bells, Falling at intervals upon the ear In cadence sweet, now dying all away, Now pealing loud again, and louder still, Clear and sonorous, as the gale comes on! With easy force it opens all the cells Where memory slept. Wherever I have heard A kindred melody, the scene recurs, And with it all its pleasures and its pains.
Página 156 - The other teaches me, that every grain of sand may harbour within it the tribes and the families of a busy population. The one told me of the insignificance of the world I tread upon. The other redeems it from all its insignificance ; for it tells me that in the leaves of every forest, and in the flowers of every garden, and in the waters of every rivulet, there are worlds teeming with life, and numberless as are the glories of the firmament.
Página 297 - THERE is in souls a sympathy with sounds, And as the mind is pitched the ear is pleased With melting airs or martial, brisk or grave, Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touched within us, and the heart replies.
Página 138 - He that riseth late must trot all Day, and shall scarce overtake his Business at Night; while Laziness travels so slowly, that Poverty soon overtakes him...
Página 115 - The SUN is but a spark of fire, A transient meteor in the sky ; The SOUL, immortal as its Sire, SHALL NEVER DIE.