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 sider |
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Side 35
... principles of society , among the American Indians , forbidding all compulsion , they are to be led to duty , and to enterprise , by personal influence and persuasion . Hence , eloquence in council , bravery and address in war , become ...
... principles of society , among the American Indians , forbidding all compulsion , they are to be led to duty , and to enterprise , by personal influence and persuasion . Hence , eloquence in council , bravery and address in war , become ...
Side 91
... principle of duty , which led him to take arms , made him equally ready to endure the consequences . After lying there a few days , he applied to the sheriff for leave to go out and work by day , promising that he would return regularly ...
... principle of duty , which led him to take arms , made him equally ready to endure the consequences . After lying there a few days , he applied to the sheriff for leave to go out and work by day , promising that he would return regularly ...
Side 92
... principles wherein he had been born and bred , he believed to be his duty , that he was brought to trial and condemned . - This it is which renders civil and religious wars so peculiarly dread- ful ; and , in the history of such wars ...
... principles wherein he had been born and bred , he believed to be his duty , that he was brought to trial and condemned . - This it is which renders civil and religious wars so peculiarly dread- ful ; and , in the history of such wars ...
Side 113
... principles , and long - established conduct , are suddenly to be changed by the effects of situation , or the eloquence of sentiment ; but , if it be granted that such change ever took place , who shall determine by what imperceptible ...
... principles , and long - established conduct , are suddenly to be changed by the effects of situation , or the eloquence of sentiment ; but , if it be granted that such change ever took place , who shall determine by what imperceptible ...
Side 126
... principle of being itself . How do we recollect the exqui- site taste of a particular fruit or dish to have been then ! how delicious a cool draught from the running stream ! A land- scape , a particular tree , a field , how much better ...
... principle of being itself . How do we recollect the exqui- site taste of a particular fruit or dish to have been then ! how delicious a cool draught from the running stream ! A land- scape , a particular tree , a field , how much better ...
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Side 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.
Side 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.
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 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?
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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...