Children's Letters: A Collection of Letters Written to Children by Famous Men and Women

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Hinds, Noble & Eldredge, 1905 - 151 من الصفحات
 

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الصفحة 107 - I wish the Bald Eagle had not been chosen as the Representative of our Country; he is a Bird of bad moral Character; he does not get his living honestly...
الصفحة 61 - How does the water Come down at Lodore?" My little boy asked me Thus, once on a time; And moreover he tasked me To tell him in rhyme. Anon, at the word, There first came one daughter, And then came another, To second and third The request of their brother, And to hear how the water Comes down at Lodore, With its rush and its roar, As many a time They had seen it before. So I told them in rhyme, For...
الصفحة 69 - ... so good as to write to me. This is the first time I ever wrote a letter in my Life. There are a great many Girls in the Square and they cry just like a pig when we are under the painfull necessity of putting it to Death.
الصفحة 30 - Strong and free, strong and free, The floodgates are open, away to the sea; Free and strong, free and strong, Cleansing my streams as I hurry along . » To the golden sands and the leaping bar, And the taintless tide that awaits 'me afar, As I lose myself in the infinite main, Like a soul that has sinned and is pardoned again. Undefiled, for the undefiled; Play by me, bathe in me, mother and child.
الصفحة 24 - Ever truly yours, SYDNEY SMITH 385.] To COLONEL Fox. October, 1836. My dear Charles, If you have ever paid any attention to the habits of animals, you will know that donkeys are remarkably cunning in opening gates. The way to stop them is to have two latches instead of one : a human being has two hands, and lifts up both latches at once ; a donkey has only one nose, and latch a drops, as he quits it to lift up latch b. Bobus and I had the grand luck to see little Aunty engaged intensely with this...
الصفحة 37 - DEAR KIND POET, — This is your birthday : that was the first thought which came into my mind when I awoke this morning, and it made me glad to think I could write you a letter and tell you how much your little blind friends love their sweet poet and his birthday. This evening they are going to entertain their friends with readings from your poems and music.
الصفحة 107 - ... nest for the support of his mate and young ones, the bald eagle pursues him, and takes it from him. With all this injustice he is never in good case ; but, like those among men who live by sharping and robbing, he is generally poor, and often very lousy.
الصفحة 17 - Luther. Might not he also come into the garden, that he might eat such apples and pears, and ride on such beautiful little ponies, and play with these children...
الصفحة 93 - I have received two letters from you, one written in Latin, the other in French ; which I take in good part, and will you to exercise that practice of learning often ; for that will stand you in most stead, in that profession of life that you are born to live in. And...
الصفحة 61 - Little girls, you know it might be proper for me, now, to wear a large wig, and to be called Doctor Southey, and to become very severe, and leave off being a comical papa. And if you should find that ell-ell-deeing has made this difference in me you will not be surprised. However, I shall not come down in a wig, neither shall I wear my robes at home.

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