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 من الصفحات |
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... water with wings , and uttered a dreadful sound , resembling thunder , accompanied with lightning and smoke , struck them with such terror , that they began to respect their new guests as a superior order of beings , and concluded that ...
... water with wings , and uttered a dreadful sound , resembling thunder , accompanied with lightning and smoke , struck them with such terror , that they began to respect their new guests as a superior order of beings , and concluded that ...
الصفحة 30
... water , and bites the unfortunate people , who are in the habit of going there to drink . The brute creation it never molests . They avoid it with the same instinct that teaches the animals of Peru to shun the deadly coya . Several of ...
... water , and bites the unfortunate people , who are in the habit of going there to drink . The brute creation it never molests . They avoid it with the same instinct that teaches the animals of Peru to shun the deadly coya . Several of ...
الصفحة 42
... waters , resting in the embrace Of the wide forest , and maize - planted glades , Opening amid the leafy wilderness . She gazed upon it long , and , at the sight Of her own village , peeping through the trees , And her own dwelling ...
... waters , resting in the embrace Of the wide forest , and maize - planted glades , Opening amid the leafy wilderness . She gazed upon it long , and , at the sight Of her own village , peeping through the trees , And her own dwelling ...
الصفحة 43
... waters , not to mention the mounds themselves , and the still more tangible evidence of human bodies found in a state of preservation , and of sepulchres full of bones , - are unquestionable demonstrations , that this country was once ...
... waters , not to mention the mounds themselves , and the still more tangible evidence of human bodies found in a state of preservation , and of sepulchres full of bones , - are unquestionable demonstrations , that this country was once ...
الصفحة 56
... waters roar , and danger threatens around ? Behold , at a distance , the mountains appear : your friends are impatient for your arrival : already the feast is prepared , and the rage of the storm shall serve only to waft you sooner to ...
... waters roar , and danger threatens around ? Behold , at a distance , the mountains appear : your friends are impatient for your arrival : already the feast is prepared , and the rage of the storm shall serve only to waft you sooner to ...
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الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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?
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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...