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Página 136
... bread , without thanking Him for providing it for us . ' 6 Well , I never thought of that , ' said Mary ; I had heard that bread was made from the grain , which I know was sown in the ground , and grew up like the seeds in my garden ...
... bread , without thanking Him for providing it for us . ' 6 Well , I never thought of that , ' said Mary ; I had heard that bread was made from the grain , which I know was sown in the ground , and grew up like the seeds in my garden ...
Página 137
... bread . ' That was because you were not sufficiently sensible of the good provi- dence of God , Mary ; and did not either reflect or attend to what wiser people talked of ; had you done so , you would have gained a more just way of ...
... bread . ' That was because you were not sufficiently sensible of the good provi- dence of God , Mary ; and did not either reflect or attend to what wiser people talked of ; had you done so , you would have gained a more just way of ...
Página 177
... refresh and enliven each . On another table mugs of milk , and slices of bread were laid , and the young people soon surrounded it with countenances ex- 6 pressive of the happiness they enjoyed ; each trying how AN EVENING AT HOME . 177.
... refresh and enliven each . On another table mugs of milk , and slices of bread were laid , and the young people soon surrounded it with countenances ex- 6 pressive of the happiness they enjoyed ; each trying how AN EVENING AT HOME . 177.
Página 178
... bread is , ' said Charles ; I think I never tasted any so sweet . ' His aunt heard the remark , and informed him it ... bread was growing in the field my last birth - day , mamma . ” Lucy stared at her sister ; - This piece of bread ...
... bread is , ' said Charles ; I think I never tasted any so sweet . ' His aunt heard the remark , and informed him it ... bread was growing in the field my last birth - day , mamma . ” Lucy stared at her sister ; - This piece of bread ...
Página 180
... bread also ; but we are going on too fast ; -when the grain is ripe , men go with crooked sharp instruments , called reaping - hooks , to cut it . It is put into bundles in the field , these bundles are named sheaves , and stacks ; it ...
... bread also ; but we are going on too fast ; -when the grain is ripe , men go with crooked sharp instruments , called reaping - hooks , to cut it . It is put into bundles in the field , these bundles are named sheaves , and stacks ; it ...
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animals appear aunt Fanny basket bats beautiful birds boat body bread Burrampooter calf called Cape Buffalo Cape Comorin carnations Charles and Harriet Chinese Empire clothes CONVERSATION cows creatures dear Charles dear children dear mamma dear Mary Dolly's dress duck dulse feed field fire-flies flowers frock fuci fucus gamboge Ganges Geography give glad goats gracious grain grow hair happy heard hermit crab Hindoostan hope horse insects Jane Jupiter kind Leslie lever little girl little Lucy little William live look Lord mamma Miss Isabella missionaries monkey moon mother moun mountains nests observe papa pigs planets pleasant poor pretty racter recollect river round Saturn sea-plants sheep sloke soon stars Stewart Sunderbunds Susan taught tell THAMES DITTON things tiger tion told trees ulva uncle WESTON GREEN wild wish young zoological name
Passagens conhecidas
Página 38 - The sum is this. If man's convenience, health, Or safety interfere, his rights and claims Are paramount, and must extinguish theirs. Else they are all — the meanest things that are, As free to live, and to enjoy that life, As God was free to form them at the first, Who in his sovereign wisdom made them all.
Página 157 - I am going to yield thee up ? To Europeans, who will tie thee close, — who will beat thee, — who will render thee miserable. Return with me, my beauty, my jewel, and rejoice the hearts of my children.
Página 126 - In' a state of nature, he generally builds his nest on the highest tree that he can find, especially on the palmyra, or on the Indian figtree, and he prefers that which happens to overhang a well or a rivulet ; he makes it of...
Página 127 - He may be taught with ease to fetch a piece of paper or any small thing that his master points out to him. It is an attested fact that, if a ring be dropped into a deep well, and a signal given to him, he will fly down with amazing celerity, catch the ring before it touches the water, and bring it up to his master with apparent exultation ; and it is confidently asserted, that, if a house or any other place be shown to him once or twice, he will carry a note thither immediately on a proper signal...
Página 177 - Our clothes, and call them rich and new ! When the poor sheep and silkworm wore That very clothing long before.
Página 130 - Indians once brought me," says she, " before I knew that they shone by night, a number of these Lantern Flies, which I shut up in a large wooden box. In the night they made such a noise, that I awoke in a fright, and ordered a light to be brought, not knowing from whence the noise proceeded.
Página 92 - sagacious little bird fastens a bit of clay to the " top of the nest, and then picks up a fire-fly, and " sticks it on the clay to illuminate the dwelling, " which consists of two rooms. Sometimes there " are three or four fire-flies, and their blaze of light " in the little cell dazzles the eyes of the bats, which " often kill the young of these birds...
Página 127 - Benares and in other places, wear very thin plates of gold, called ticas, slightly fixed by way of ornament between their eyebrows ; * and when they pass through the streets, it is not uncommon for the youthful libertines, who amuse themselves with training...
Página 126 - Hindustan : he is astonishingly sensible, faithful, and docile, never voluntarily deserting the place where his young were hatched, nowise averse, like most other birds, to the society of mankind, and easily taught to perch on the hand of his master. In...
Página 130 - ... wooden box. In the night they made such a noise that I awoke in a fright, and ordered a light to be brought, not being able to guess from whence the noise proceeded : as soon as I found that it came from the box, I opened it, but was still...