Self-culture in Reading, Speaking, and Conversation: Designed for the Use of Schools, Colleges, and Home InstructionA. S. Barnes & Company, 1856 - 383 sider |
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Side 142
... universal frame , Thus wondrous fair , thyself how wondrous then ! Unspeakable ! who sit'st above these heavens , To us invisible , or dimly seen In these thy lower works- " it would be very natural for me to extend both hands over the ...
... universal frame , Thus wondrous fair , thyself how wondrous then ! Unspeakable ! who sit'st above these heavens , To us invisible , or dimly seen In these thy lower works- " it would be very natural for me to extend both hands over the ...
Side 149
... universal frame , " he brings them in a bend nearly together in front , and carries them up as high as the top of the head , curved apart , with the palms spread upwards . Yonder is a blacksmith at the anvil . See how the hammer , in ...
... universal frame , " he brings them in a bend nearly together in front , and carries them up as high as the top of the head , curved apart , with the palms spread upwards . Yonder is a blacksmith at the anvil . See how the hammer , in ...
Side 190
... it inspires forgiveness , humánity , and a solicitude for their welfare . It breathes universal candor , and liberálity of sentiment . It forms gen- 1 1 tleness of témper , and dictates affability of 190 READING AND SPEAKING .
... it inspires forgiveness , humánity , and a solicitude for their welfare . It breathes universal candor , and liberálity of sentiment . It forms gen- 1 1 tleness of témper , and dictates affability of 190 READING AND SPEAKING .
Side 236
... Greek or Roman school . Par- nassus was not to him the only holy ground of genius . He felt that poetry was a universal presence . Great minds were every where his kindred . He felt the enchantment 236 READING AND SPEAKING .
... Greek or Roman school . Par- nassus was not to him the only holy ground of genius . He felt that poetry was a universal presence . Great minds were every where his kindred . He felt the enchantment 236 READING AND SPEAKING .
Side 271
... universal feeling appears to be , that industry can affect nothing , that eminence is the result of accident , and that every one must be content to remain just what he may happen to be . Thus multitudes , who came forward as teachers ...
... universal feeling appears to be , that industry can affect nothing , that eminence is the result of accident , and that every one must be content to remain just what he may happen to be . Thus multitudes , who came forward as teachers ...
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A. S. BARNES Academy accent acute accent adapted American Arithmetic beautiful better blessings cæsura called character chee Christian circumflex Colton course DAVIES Demosthenes Dictation Exercises earth elementary elocution Embraces emphasis English language example falling slide Faneuil Hall feel gentlemen gesture give graceful Grammar grave accent hand happy heart heaven honor hymns Iambs illustrated inflection instruction interest labor language LESSON liberty living look Lord Mathematics mind Natural Philosophy nature never Northend's o'er orator Parker's poetry practical present principles pronounced pupil reader rising slide schools sense soul sound speak speaker spirit Spondee student style syllable T-What teacher thee thing thou thought tion tone treatise Trochee truth Union utterance verse voice volume vowel WALTER COLTON whole Willard's words young youth
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Side 310 - Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood! Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the Republic, now known and honored throughout the earth, still full high advanced, its arms and trophies streaming in their original lustre, not a stripe erased or polluted, nor a single star obscured, bearing for its motto no such miserable interrogatory as
Side 103 - Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen: Like the leaves of the forest when Autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strown. For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast, And breathed in the face of the foe as he passed...
Side 300 - Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow.
Side 300 - But to the hero, when his sword Has won the battle for the free Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word, And in its hollow tones are heard The thanks of millions yet to be.
Side 287 - We know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils.
Side 367 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty ! thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair : thyself how wondrous then ! Unspeakable ! who sitt'st above these Heavens To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works ; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.
Side 77 - Then Jesus answering said unto them. Go your way, and tell John what things ye have seen and heard; how that the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised. to the poor the gospel is preached.
Side 260 - Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.
Side 101 - That, chang'd through all, and yet in all the same ; Great in the earth, as in the ethereal frame ; Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees, Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent...
Side 377 - From seeming evil still educing good, And better thence again, and better still, In infinite progression.