Town's Third Reader: Containing a Selection of Lessons, Exclusively from American AuthorsH. & E. Phinney, 1848 - 288 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 270
... my protection ; and to support your no- bility , and in some measure requite you for the pleas- ure you have done us , a thousand crowns a year shall be your revenue . LESSON XCII . PEDIGREE . Mary . AUNT BETTY , 270 TOWN'S.
... my protection ; and to support your no- bility , and in some measure requite you for the pleas- ure you have done us , a thousand crowns a year shall be your revenue . LESSON XCII . PEDIGREE . Mary . AUNT BETTY , 270 TOWN'S.
الصفحة 271
... AUNT BETTY , why are you always mending that old picture ? Aunt Betty . Old picture , Miss ! and pray who told you to call it an old picture ? Mary . Pray , aunt , is it not an old picture ? I am sure it looks ragged enough to be old . Aunt ...
... AUNT BETTY , why are you always mending that old picture ? Aunt Betty . Old picture , Miss ! and pray who told you to call it an old picture ? Mary . Pray , aunt , is it not an old picture ? I am sure it looks ragged enough to be old . Aunt ...
الصفحة 272
... aunt Betty ? Aunt Betty . From Sir Gregory McGrincell , who lived in the time of Elizabeth , and left sons a dozen , from the youngest of whom , James McGrincell , gen- tleman , we are descended . Mary . What does a gentleman mean ...
... aunt Betty ? Aunt Betty . From Sir Gregory McGrincell , who lived in the time of Elizabeth , and left sons a dozen , from the youngest of whom , James McGrincell , gen- tleman , we are descended . Mary . What does a gentleman mean ...
الصفحة 273
... aunt . Aunt Betty . She ought to have known her place , however . I shall take care how I go to any more vulgar funerals to be insulted , I promise you . Mary . I can not see what should make us better than our neighbors , for my mother ...
... aunt . Aunt Betty . She ought to have known her place , however . I shall take care how I go to any more vulgar funerals to be insulted , I promise you . Mary . I can not see what should make us better than our neighbors , for my mother ...
الصفحة 274
... Aunt Betty . By trade ! The minx will drive me distracted . Be it known to you , miss , we have never had a tradesman in our family ; and I trust I never shall live to see it so degraded . Painting was merely Sir Gregory's profession ...
... Aunt Betty . By trade ! The minx will drive me distracted . Be it known to you , miss , we have never had a tradesman in our family ; and I trust I never shall live to see it so degraded . Painting was merely Sir Gregory's profession ...
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الصفحة 213 - To him who in the love of nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware.
الصفحة 16 - Motionless torrents! silent cataracts! Who made you glorious as the gates of Heaven Beneath the keen full moon ? Who bade the sun Clothe you with rainbows? Who, with living flowers Of loveliest blue, spread garlands at your feet? God! Let the torrents, like a shout of nations, Answer! and let the ice-plains echo, God!
الصفحة 15 - Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these...
الصفحة 222 - Let our object be, our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country. And, by the blessing of God, may that country itself become a vast and splendid monument, not of oppression and terror, but of wisdom, of peace, and of liberty, upon which the world may gazo with admiration, forever I VOL.
الصفحة 13 - But Paul said unto them, They have beaten us openly uncondemned, being Romans, and have cast us into prison ; and now do they thrust us out privily? nay verily; but let them come themselves and fetch us out.
الصفحة 228 - Affected passion, intense expression, the pomp of declamation, all may aspire after it — they cannot reach it.
الصفحة 222 - Our proper business is improvement. Let our age be the age of improvement. In a day of peace, let us advance the arts of peace and the works of peace. Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.
الصفحة 250 - Happy in the confirmation of our independence and sovereignty, and pleased with the opportunity afforded the United States of becoming a respectable nation, I resign with satisfaction the appointment I accepted with diffidence, — a diffidence in my abilities to accomplish so arduous a task ; which, however, was superseded by a confidence in the rectitude of our cause, the support of the supreme power of the Union, and the patronage of heaven.
الصفحة 147 - Oh, the grave! The grave! It buries every error — covers every defect — extinguishes every resentment! From its peaceful bosom spring none but fond regrets and tender recollections. Who can look down upon the grave even of an enemy and not feel a compunctious throb that he should ever have warred with the poor handful of earth that lies moldering before him.
الصفحة 148 - If thou art a child, and hast ever added a sorrow to the soul, or a furrow to the silvered brow of an affectionate parent; if thou art a husband, and hast ever caused the fond bosom that ventured its whole happiness in thy arms to doubt one moment of thy kindness or thy truth...