Town's Third Reader: Containing a Selection of Lessons, Exclusively from American AuthorsH. & E. Phinney, 1848 - 288 páginas |
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... vast , are distant , and roll silently in their courses . But the earth by its quakings , the volcano by its fires , the ocean by its mountain waves , and the floods of Niagara by their matchless power and ceaseless thunderings ...
... vast , are distant , and roll silently in their courses . But the earth by its quakings , the volcano by its fires , the ocean by its mountain waves , and the floods of Niagara by their matchless power and ceaseless thunderings ...
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... Vast lawns that extend like sheets of vivid green , with here and there clumps of gigantic trees , heaping up rich piles of foliage . The solemn pomp of groves and woodland glades , with the deer trooping in silent herds across them ...
... Vast lawns that extend like sheets of vivid green , with here and there clumps of gigantic trees , heaping up rich piles of foliage . The solemn pomp of groves and woodland glades , with the deer trooping in silent herds across them ...
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... vast and various concerns with which his life was charged , seemed to indicate the intuition of a superior being ; the unrivaled accuracy of his judgment was demon- strated in the extraordinary success of his wide and eventful range of ...
... vast and various concerns with which his life was charged , seemed to indicate the intuition of a superior being ; the unrivaled accuracy of his judgment was demon- strated in the extraordinary success of his wide and eventful range of ...
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... vast and varied ocean ; and it would be a much more diversified and beautiful one ; for I have spoken but of a few particulars , and of those but slightly . I have not spoken of the thousand forms in which the sea meets the shore , of ...
... vast and varied ocean ; and it would be a much more diversified and beautiful one ; for I have spoken but of a few particulars , and of those but slightly . I have not spoken of the thousand forms in which the sea meets the shore , of ...
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... vast bulk to the use of man . The lesser tribes of the finny race have each their peculiar habits and haunts , but they are found out by the ingenuity of man , and turned to his own purposes . The line and the hook and the net are ...
... vast bulk to the use of man . The lesser tribes of the finny race have each their peculiar habits and haunts , but they are found out by the ingenuity of man , and turned to his own purposes . The line and the hook and the net are ...
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Página 213 - To him who in the love of nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware.
Página 16 - Motionless torrents! silent cataracts! Who made you glorious as the gates of Heaven Beneath the keen full moon ? Who bade the sun Clothe you with rainbows? Who, with living flowers Of loveliest blue, spread garlands at your feet? God! Let the torrents, like a shout of nations, Answer! and let the ice-plains echo, God!
Página 15 - Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these...
Página 222 - Let our object be, our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country. And, by the blessing of God, may that country itself become a vast and splendid monument, not of oppression and terror, but of wisdom, of peace, and of liberty, upon which the world may gazo with admiration, forever I VOL.
Página 13 - But Paul said unto them, They have beaten us openly uncondemned, being Romans, and have cast us into prison ; and now do they thrust us out privily? nay verily; but let them come themselves and fetch us out.
Página 228 - Affected passion, intense expression, the pomp of declamation, all may aspire after it — they cannot reach it.
Página 222 - Our proper business is improvement. Let our age be the age of improvement. In a day of peace, let us advance the arts of peace and the works of peace. Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.
Página 250 - Happy in the confirmation of our independence and sovereignty, and pleased with the opportunity afforded the United States of becoming a respectable nation, I resign with satisfaction the appointment I accepted with diffidence, — a diffidence in my abilities to accomplish so arduous a task ; which, however, was superseded by a confidence in the rectitude of our cause, the support of the supreme power of the Union, and the patronage of heaven.
Página 147 - Oh, the grave! The grave! It buries every error — covers every defect — extinguishes every resentment! From its peaceful bosom spring none but fond regrets and tender recollections. Who can look down upon the grave even of an enemy and not feel a compunctious throb that he should ever have warred with the poor handful of earth that lies moldering before him.
Página 148 - If thou art a child, and hast ever added a sorrow to the soul, or a furrow to the silvered brow of an affectionate parent; if thou art a husband, and hast ever caused the fond bosom that ventured its whole happiness in thy arms to doubt one moment of thy kindness or thy truth...