Cobb's Sequel to the Juvenile Readers: Comprising a Selection of Lessons in Prose and Poetry, from Highly Esteemed American Writers : Designed for the Use of Higher Classes in Schools and Academies : and to Impress the Minds of Youth with Sentiments of Virtue and ReligionHarper & Bros., 1834 - 215 páginas |
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... Falls of St. Anthony , 6. On Gratitude , 7. The advantages of a Taste for Natural History , 8 . On the Importance of Order in the Distribution of our Time , 9. Cultivation of Memory , · · Page . 61 · 738. Female Accomplishments , 939 ...
... Falls of St. Anthony , 6. On Gratitude , 7. The advantages of a Taste for Natural History , 8 . On the Importance of Order in the Distribution of our Time , 9. Cultivation of Memory , · · Page . 61 · 738. Female Accomplishments , 939 ...
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... , the Falls of St. Anthony , until very recently , have been much overrated . Instead of the extravagant estimates of the first French writers , or even the fall of fifty feet 2 COBB'S SEQUEL . 13 The Falls of St Anthony,
... , the Falls of St. Anthony , until very recently , have been much overrated . Instead of the extravagant estimates of the first French writers , or even the fall of fifty feet 2 COBB'S SEQUEL . 13 The Falls of St Anthony,
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... fall of the Mississippi , here , is between sixteen and seventeen feet of perpendicular descent . Though it has not ... falls , as it sinks into feeble echoes in the forests , a thrilling story is told him of the love and despair of a ...
... fall of the Mississippi , here , is between sixteen and seventeen feet of perpendicular descent . Though it has not ... falls , as it sinks into feeble echoes in the forests , a thrilling story is told him of the love and despair of a ...
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... fall . Wisdom mistrusts itself , and leans on Heaven , Said God . It trusts and leans upon itself , The world replied . 3 . Wisdom retires , said God , And counts it bravery to bear reproach , And shame , and lowly poverty , upright ...
... fall . Wisdom mistrusts itself , and leans on Heaven , Said God . It trusts and leans upon itself , The world replied . 3 . Wisdom retires , said God , And counts it bravery to bear reproach , And shame , and lowly poverty , upright ...
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... in an open valley ; but the mephitick air at the grotto is so heavy , that you may stand upright without inconvenience , as it rises but a few inches above the surface . ) LESSON XXVI , Falls of the Montmorency , 1. THE 36 COBB'S SEQUEL .
... in an open valley ; but the mephitick air at the grotto is so heavy , that you may stand upright without inconvenience , as it rises but a few inches above the surface . ) LESSON XXVI , Falls of the Montmorency , 1. THE 36 COBB'S SEQUEL .
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Página 191 - Lo, the poor Indian ! whose untutored mind Sees GOD in clouds, or hears Him in the wind ; His soul proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or Milky Way...
Página 23 - Though in the paths of death I tread, With gloomy horrors overspread ; My steadfast heart shall fear no ill, For thou, O Lord, art with me still ; Thy friendly crook shall give me aid, And guide me through the dreadful shade Though in a bare and rugged way, Through devious lonely wilds I stray.
Página 191 - Pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes, Men would be Angels, Angels would be Gods. Aspiring to be Gods, if Angels fell, Aspiring to be Angels, Men rebel: And who but wishes to invert the laws Of Order, sins against th
Página 196 - For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies...
Página 83 - 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.
Página 109 - Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth, when every sport could please, How often have I loitered o'er thy green, Where humble happiness endeared each scene!
Página 54 - O thou that rollest above, round as the shield of my fathers! Whence are thy beams, O sun! thy everlasting light? Thou comest forth in thy awful beauty; the stars hide themselves in the sky; the moon, cold and pale, sinks in the western wave. But thou thyself movest alone; who can be a companion of thy course?
Página 126 - Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw: Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite...
Página 190 - The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
Página 79 - Tis life to feel the night-wind That lifts his tossing mane. A moment in the British camp — A moment — and away, Back to the pathless forest Before the peep of day. Grave men there are by broad Santee, Grave men with hoary hairs; Their hearts are all with Marion, For Marion are their prayers. And lovely ladies greet our band With kindliest welcoming, With smiles like those of summer, And tears like those of spring. For them we wear these trusty arms, And lay them down no more Till we have driven...