The National Reader: A Selection of Exercises in Reading and Speaking, Designed to Fill the Same Place in the Schools of the United States that is Held in Those of Great Britain by the Compilations of Murray, Scott, Enfield, Mylius, Thompson, Ewing and OthersRichardson, Lord, and Holbrook, 1831 - 276 páginas |
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... object , and has established his character , and secured his reward , as a benefactor of his country in one of its most valuable interests : and it derogates nothing from his merit or fame , to say that his book is not well adapted to ...
... object , and has established his character , and secured his reward , as a benefactor of his country in one of its most valuable interests : and it derogates nothing from his merit or fame , to say that his book is not well adapted to ...
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... objects of interest , to the young eyes that , from year to year , are opening upon them , and worthy of being ... object to make this book - what it is called - a National Reader . By this I do not mean that it consists , entirely ...
... objects of interest , to the young eyes that , from year to year , are opening upon them , and worthy of being ... object to make this book - what it is called - a National Reader . By this I do not mean that it consists , entirely ...
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... objects which pre- sented themselves to their view . Columbus was the first European who set foot in the New World which he had discovered . He landed in a rich dress , and with a naked sword in his hand . His men fol- lowed , and ...
... objects which pre- sented themselves to their view . Columbus was the first European who set foot in the New World which he had discovered . He landed in a rich dress , and with a naked sword in his hand . His men fol- lowed , and ...
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... object of universal contempt and ridicule . Remember , then , as long as you live , that nothing but strict truth can carry you through the world , with either your conscience or your honour unwounded . It is not only your duty , but ...
... object of universal contempt and ridicule . Remember , then , as long as you live , that nothing but strict truth can carry you through the world , with either your conscience or your honour unwounded . It is not only your duty , but ...
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... objects are fitted to impress the soul with awe . The mountain , which rises above the neighbouring hills , and hides its head in the sky ; the sounding , unfathomed , boundless deep ; the expanse of heaven , where , above , and around ...
... objects are fitted to impress the soul with awe . The mountain , which rises above the neighbouring hills , and hides its head in the sky ; the sounding , unfathomed , boundless deep ; the expanse of heaven , where , above , and around ...
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Página 263 - On its annual return they will shed tears, copious, gushing tears, not of subjection and slavery, not of agony and distress, but of exultation, of gratitude, and of joy. Sir, before God^ I believe the hour is come. My judgment approves this measure, and my whole heart is in it. All that I have, and all that I am, and all that I hope, in this life, I am now ready here to stake upon it ; and I leave off, as I begun, that live or die, survive or perish, I am for the Declaration.
Página 192 - By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around
Página 21 - OH THAT I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me; When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness...
Página 85 - Wept o'er his wounds, or, tales of sorrow done. Shouldered his crutch, and showed how fields were won. Pleased with his guests, the good man learned to glow, And quite forgot their vices in their woe ; Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began.
Página 68 - There were indeed some persons, but their number was very small, that continued a kind of hobbling march on the broken arches, but fell through one after another, being quite tired and spent with so long a walk.
Página 220 - We have petitioned ; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and parliament. Our petitions have been slighted ; our remonstrances have produced additional violence and insult; our supplications have been disregarded; and we have been spurned with contempt from the foot of the throne.
Página 196 - This is a misery much to be lamented, for though they were burning and shining lights in their times, yet they penetrated not into the whole counsel of God, but were they now living, would be as willing to embrace further light as that which they first received.
Página 67 - The valley that thou seest, said he, is the vale of misery, and the tide of water that thou seest is part of the great tide of eternity. What is the reason, said I, that the tide I see rises out of a thick mist at one end, and again loses itself in a thick mist at the other? What thou seest, said he, is that portion of eternity which is called time, measured out by the sun, and reaching from the beginning of the world to its consummation. Examine now...
Página 261 - Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and my heart to this vote.
Página 144 - And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it ? how much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash, and be clean?