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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... sound of Land ! land ! was heard from the Pinta . But , having been so often deceived by fallacious appearances , they had now become slow of belief , and waited , in all the auguish of uncertainty and impatience , for the return of day ...
... sound of Land ! land ! was heard from the Pinta . But , having been so often deceived by fallacious appearances , they had now become slow of belief , and waited , in all the auguish of uncertainty and impatience , for the return of day ...
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... sound , resembling thunder , accompanied with lightning and smoke , struck them with such terror , that they began to respect their new guests as a superior order of beings , and concluded that they were children of the sun , who had ...
... sound , resembling thunder , accompanied with lightning and smoke , struck them with such terror , that they began to respect their new guests as a superior order of beings , and concluded that they were children of the sun , who had ...
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... sound , Amid their radiant orbs be found ! In reason's ear they all rejoice , And utter forth a glorious voice , For ever singing , as they shine , " The Hand that made us is Divine . " LESSON IX . Morning Meditations . - HAWKESWORTH ...
... sound , Amid their radiant orbs be found ! In reason's ear they all rejoice , And utter forth a glorious voice , For ever singing , as they shine , " The Hand that made us is Divine . " LESSON IX . Morning Meditations . - HAWKESWORTH ...
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... sounds my symphonies . There's music sweeter to my soul In the weed by the wild wind fanned , In the heave of the surge , than ever stole From mortal minstrel's hand . There's mighty music in the roar Of the oaks on the mountain's side ...
... sounds my symphonies . There's music sweeter to my soul In the weed by the wild wind fanned , In the heave of the surge , than ever stole From mortal minstrel's hand . There's mighty music in the roar Of the oaks on the mountain's side ...
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... sound Of winds , that struggle with the woods below , Come up like ocean murmurs . But the scene Is lovely round . A beautiful river there Wanders amid the fresh and fertile meads , The paradise he made unto himself , Mining the soil ...
... sound Of winds , that struggle with the woods below , Come up like ocean murmurs . But the scene Is lovely round . A beautiful river there Wanders amid the fresh and fertile meads , The paradise he made unto himself , Mining the soil ...
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American amidst beauty behold beneath blessings bosom breath Breed's Hill bright Brownists Bunker's Hill called cataract Charlestown clouds Copp's Hill dark death deep descend earth eternity fathers fear feel fire flowers friends Gehazi glorious glory grave hallowed ground hand happy hath hear heard heart heaven hills honour hope hour human Jehoshaphat labour land LESSON Lexington light live look Lord lord Dunmore lyre mind moral morning Mount of Olives mountains Mystic River Naaman nature never night o'er passed peace pilgrim plain Pron Puritans racter religion rest rise river rock roll round scene shade shine shore side silent smile song sorrow soul sound spirit spot stars storm summit tears Terni thee thing thou thought tion tomb trees valley village virtue voice wander waters waves wild wilderness winds young youth
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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?