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 sider |
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Side 15
... hear that I have learned this difficult lesson , and performed this hard task . My teacher , also , will be pleased with me for my diligence . And I myself shall be comfortable and happy when the exercise is finished . The sooner and ...
... hear that I have learned this difficult lesson , and performed this hard task . My teacher , also , will be pleased with me for my diligence . And I myself shall be comfortable and happy when the exercise is finished . The sooner and ...
Side 40
... hear the torrent , and the wind , And eagle's shriek ....... There is a precipice , That seems a fragment of some mighty wall , Built by the hand that fashioned the old world , To separate its nations , and thrown down When the flood ...
... hear the torrent , and the wind , And eagle's shriek ....... There is a precipice , That seems a fragment of some mighty wall , Built by the hand that fashioned the old world , To separate its nations , and thrown down When the flood ...
Side 49
... hear the roar of the last wave , which will settle over them forever . Ages hence , the inquisitive white man , as he stands by some growing city , will ponder on the structure of their dis- turbed remains , and wonder to what manner of ...
... hear the roar of the last wave , which will settle over them forever . Ages hence , the inquisitive white man , as he stands by some growing city , will ponder on the structure of their dis- turbed remains , and wonder to what manner of ...
Side 50
... hear nothing of the tumult ; they sleep soundly ; they rest from their calamities upon beds of peace . Con ducted to silent mansions , they cannot be troubled by the rudest assaults , nor awakened by the loudest clamour . The ...
... hear nothing of the tumult ; they sleep soundly ; they rest from their calamities upon beds of peace . Con ducted to silent mansions , they cannot be troubled by the rudest assaults , nor awakened by the loudest clamour . The ...
Side 53
... hear of Henry ? O , none : -another busy brood of beings Will shoot up in the interim , and none Will hold him in remembrance . I shall sink As sinks a stranger in the crowded streets Of busy London : -some short bustle's caused , A few ...
... hear of Henry ? O , none : -another busy brood of beings Will shoot up in the interim , and none Will hold him in remembrance . I shall sink As sinks a stranger in the crowded streets Of busy London : -some short bustle's caused , A few ...
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Side 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.
Side 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
Side 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...
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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...
Side 261 - Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and my heart to this vote.
Side 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?