Selections for Reading and Speaking, for the Higher Classes in Common SchoolsJ.P. Jewett & Company, 1850 - 312 من الصفحات |
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... tree ; the arrow had split upon the cord , and sprung back with such violence into his right eye , as to destroy it forever . 5. Feeling hungry , I inquired what sort of fare I might expect . Such a thing as a bed was not to be seen ...
... tree ; the arrow had split upon the cord , and sprung back with such violence into his right eye , as to destroy it forever . 5. Feeling hungry , I inquired what sort of fare I might expect . Such a thing as a bed was not to be seen ...
الصفحة 53
... trees , from which I should gather fruit and present to my friends . 5. This was about November . I asked the old gardener how long it would be before they would come up . I sighed as he replied , " Four , five month ; may be two winter ...
... trees , from which I should gather fruit and present to my friends . 5. This was about November . I asked the old gardener how long it would be before they would come up . I sighed as he replied , " Four , five month ; may be two winter ...
الصفحة 54
... trees instead of four , and to wait patiently the development of the operations of nature . 11. At Midsummer , when I came home , I was delighted to perceive two fine strong plants , each with six leaves , in the places where two of my ...
... trees instead of four , and to wait patiently the development of the operations of nature . 11. At Midsummer , when I came home , I was delighted to perceive two fine strong plants , each with six leaves , in the places where two of my ...
الصفحة 55
... tree . I consoled myself as well as I could for the failure of the rest , and centred my attention on the one that remained . I was anxious to know how soon it might be expected to bear fruit , and sighed again when Monet replied ...
... tree . I consoled myself as well as I could for the failure of the rest , and centred my attention on the one that remained . I was anxious to know how soon it might be expected to bear fruit , and sighed again when Monet replied ...
الصفحة 56
... trees ; they still flourish , and remind me that but for my own childish impatience and despondency , I might have possessed two more , equally valuable . 19. I am ashamed and grieved when I reflect how many valuable books I might have ...
... trees ; they still flourish , and remind me that but for my own childish impatience and despondency , I might have possessed two more , equally valuable . 19. I am ashamed and grieved when I reflect how many valuable books I might have ...
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الصفحة 65 - After God had carried us safe to New England, and we had builded our houses, provided necessaries for our livelihood, reared convenient places for God's worship, and settled the civil government, one of the next things we longed for and looked after was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity; dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches, when our present ministers shall lie in the dust.
الصفحة 311 - 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. It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment ; Independence, now ; and INDEPENDENCE FOREVER.
الصفحة 305 - ... against your Protestant brethren; to lay waste their country, to desolate their dwellings, and extirpate their race and name, with these horrible hell-hounds of savage war! — hell-hounds, I say, of savage war.
الصفحة 123 - She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A Maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love : A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye! Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky. She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be; But she is in her grave, and, oh, The difference to me!
الصفحة 117 - twas a famous victory! "My father lived at Blenheim then, Yon little stream hard by; They burnt his dwelling to the ground, And he was forced to fly ; So with his wife and child he fled, Nor had he where to rest his head.
الصفحة 118 - And everybody praised the Duke Who this great fight did win." " But what good came of it at last ?" Quoth little Peterkin. " Why, that I cannot tell," said he,
الصفحة 117 - They say it was a shocking sight After the field was won ; For many thousand bodies here Lay rotting in the sun : But things like that, you know, must be After a famous victory. 'Great praise the Duke of Marlbro* won And our good Prince Eugene;' 'Why 'twas a very wicked thing !' Said little Wilhelmine; 'Nay . . nay . . my little girl,' quoth he, 'It was a famous victory.
الصفحة 187 - Oh ! why should the spirit of mortal be proud ? Like a swift-fleeting meteor, a fast-flying cloud, A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave, He passeth from life to his rest in the grave.
الصفحة 309 - If we postpone independence, do we mean to carry on, or give up, the war ? Do we mean to submit to the measures of parliament — Boston port-bill and all ? Do we mean to submit, and consent that we ourselves shall be ground to powder, and our country and its rights trodden down in the dust ? I know we do not mean to submit. We never shall submit.
الصفحة 305 - We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that syren, till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty ? Are we disposed to be of the number of those.