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 ...Hilliard, Gray, Little and Wilkins, 1828 - 276 страница |
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... English laws , to say that they will not do for us . They were not made for us . Nor is it a disparagement to English school books , to say that they are not adapted to American schools . There is not one , among them all , that was ...
... English laws , to say that they will not do for us . They were not made for us . Nor is it a disparagement to English school books , to say that they are not adapted to American schools . There is not one , among them all , that was ...
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... English compila- tions , I have adopted freely into this collection , and believe that I have enriched it by them . I trust that there will be found in it not a line or a thought , that shall offend the most scrupulous delicacy , or ...
... English compila- tions , I have adopted freely into this collection , and believe that I have enriched it by them . I trust that there will be found in it not a line or a thought , that shall offend the most scrupulous delicacy , or ...
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... English , when they sneer at our country , speak of it as steril in moral interest . " It has , " say they , ( 6 numents , no ruins , none of the massive remains of former ages ; no castles , no mouldering abbeys , no baronial towers ...
... English , when they sneer at our country , speak of it as steril in moral interest . " It has , " say they , ( 6 numents , no ruins , none of the massive remains of former ages ; no castles , no mouldering abbeys , no baronial towers ...
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... English party suddenly transported here , they would not believe it was the sad and dreary Jerusalem they were gazing on . This is the finest point to view it from ; for its numerous min'arets and superb mosque are seen to great ...
... English party suddenly transported here , they would not believe it was the sad and dreary Jerusalem they were gazing on . This is the finest point to view it from ; for its numerous min'arets and superb mosque are seen to great ...
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... English government ; but when those rights were invaded , they spurned even the form away . This act was the revolution , which came of course , and spontaneously , and had nothing in it of the wonderful or unforeseen . The wonder would ...
... English government ; but when those rights were invaded , they spurned even the form away . This act was the revolution , which came of course , and spontaneously , and had nothing in it of the wonderful or unforeseen . The wonder would ...
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Страница 142 - Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said, Behold, I thought, He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of the LORD his God, and strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper.
Страница 24 - Soon as the evening shades prevail The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth. Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Страница 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...
Страница 142 - So he turned and went away in a rage. 13 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?
Страница 143 - And he returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and came, and stood before him: and he said, Behold, now I know that there is no God in all the earth, but in Israel: now therefore, I pray thee, take a blessing of thy servant.
Страница 67 - He then led me to the highest pinnacle of the rock, and placing me on the top of it, Cast thy eyes eastward, said he, and tell me what thou seest. I see, said I, a huge valley, and a prodigious tide of water rolling through it.
Страница 142 - And it came to pass, when the king of Israel had read the letter, that he rent his clothes, and said, Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man doth send unto me to recover a man of his leprosy ? Wherefore consider, I pray you, and see how he seeketh a quarrel against me.
Страница 67 - I see a bridge, said I, standing in the midst of the tide. The bridge thou seest, said he, is human life, consider it attentively. Upon a more leisurely survey of it, I found that it consisted of threescore and ten entire arches, with several broken arches, which, added to those that were entire, made up the number about an hundred.
Страница 232 - There, at the foot of yonder nodding beech, That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.
Страница 193 - We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow ! Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him ; But little hell reck if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him...