Country miscellany and literary selector, Oplag 1–71832 |
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Side 8
... child- ren sent to school write on a smooth thin board , slightly daubed over with whiting , which may be wiped off or renewed at pleasure , and thus learn to read , to write , and to get their lessons by heart , all at the same time ...
... child- ren sent to school write on a smooth thin board , slightly daubed over with whiting , which may be wiped off or renewed at pleasure , and thus learn to read , to write , and to get their lessons by heart , all at the same time ...
Side 20
... children of five or six years of age following the camp , and marching fifteen or sixteen miles a day with the same ease as their fathers . I have almost as much local attachment to Vellore as to North- side ; for it is situated in a ...
... children of five or six years of age following the camp , and marching fifteen or sixteen miles a day with the same ease as their fathers . I have almost as much local attachment to Vellore as to North- side ; for it is situated in a ...
Side 27
... children make little presents to their parents , and to each other ; and the parents to the children . For three or four months before Christmas , the girls are all busy , and the boys save up their pocket - money , to make or purchase ...
... children make little presents to their parents , and to each other ; and the parents to the children . For three or four months before Christmas , the girls are all busy , and the boys save up their pocket - money , to make or purchase ...
Side 34
... child , my child , we will not part ! But all was o'er - thy spotless soul Had wing'd its seraph - flight To realms beyond earth's utmost pole Of uncreated light : Where glory's sun doth ever glow , And ne'er was heard the wail of wo ...
... child , my child , we will not part ! But all was o'er - thy spotless soul Had wing'd its seraph - flight To realms beyond earth's utmost pole Of uncreated light : Where glory's sun doth ever glow , And ne'er was heard the wail of wo ...
Side 40
... child and only son of William and Anne Roberts , who , at the time of his birth , resided in Horfield Road in that city . No striking indications of extra- ordinary talents were observed during his childhood ; when he arrived at a ...
... child and only son of William and Anne Roberts , who , at the time of his birth , resided in Horfield Road in that city . No striking indications of extra- ordinary talents were observed during his childhood ; when he arrived at a ...
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Side 183 - The dew shall weep thy fall to-night ; For thou must die. Sweet Rose, whose hue, angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die. Sweet Spring, full of sweet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie, My music shows ye have your closes, And all must die.
Side 213 - you can do nothing for me." All that could be done was to fan him with paper, and frequently to give him lemonade to alleviate his intense thirst. He was in great pain, and expressed much anxiety for the event of the action, which now began to declare itself. As often as a ship struck, the crew of the Victory...
Side 102 - For the Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills; a land of wheat and barley and vines and fig trees and pomegranates; a land of oil olive and honey; a land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack anything in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass.
Side 214 - Hardy knelt down and kissed his cheek: and Nelson said, " Now I am satisfied. Thank God, I have done my duty!
Side 214 - Captain Hardy, some fifty minutes after he had left the cockpit, returned ; and, again taking the hand of his dying friend and commander, congratulated him on having gained a complete victory. How many of the enemy were taken he did not know, as it was impossible to perceive them distinctly ; but fourteen or fifteen at least. " That's well, cried Nelson,
Side 212 - ' I hope not," cried Hardy. "Yes," he replied, "my backbone is shot through." Yet even now, not for a moment losing his presence of mind, he observed, as they were carrying him down the ladder, that the...
Side 92 - I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Side 126 - Talent is power; tact is skill. Talent is weight ; tact is momentum. Talent knows what to do; tact knows how to do it. Talent makes a man respectable ; tact will make him respected. Talent is wealth ; tact is ready money.
Side 212 - It was soon perceived, upon examination, that the wound was mortal. This, however, was concealed from all except Captain Hardy, the chaplain, and the medical attendants. He himself being certain, from the sensation in his back, and the gush of blood he felt momently within his breast, that no human care could avail him, insisted that the surgeon should leave him, and attend to those to whom he might be useful...
Side 212 - Redoutable, supposing that she had struck, because her great guns were silent; for, as she carried no flag, there was no means of instantly ascertaining the fact. From this ship, which he had thus twice spared, he received his death. A ball fired from her...