Instructive and Entertaining Lessons for Youth: With Rules for Reading with Propriety, Illustrated by Examples: Designed for Use in Schools and FamiliesS. Babcock and Durrie & Peck, 1835 - 252 páginas |
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... plants . 03 Webster's Dictionary , Octavo , Published by N. & J. White , New York , and Sold by Booksellers in all parts of the country , WEBSTER'S ABRIDGMENT of his Dictionary in twelves , and an Abridgment in sixteens , for the use of ...
... plants . 03 Webster's Dictionary , Octavo , Published by N. & J. White , New York , and Sold by Booksellers in all parts of the country , WEBSTER'S ABRIDGMENT of his Dictionary in twelves , and an Abridgment in sixteens , for the use of ...
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... plants ; and it is as unnatural and absurd to attempt to force the growth of the mind , as it is to force the growth of the body . Nor is precocity in children of any ultimate use , as Dr. Johnson remarked seventy years ago ; it is no ...
... plants ; and it is as unnatural and absurd to attempt to force the growth of the mind , as it is to force the growth of the body . Nor is precocity in children of any ultimate use , as Dr. Johnson remarked seventy years ago ; it is no ...
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... plants which are necessary to supply food and clothing for the human race , and food for domestie animals . 2. A good farm is one which contains fertile land , suitable both for grass and for tillage ; which produces trees for fruit and ...
... plants which are necessary to supply food and clothing for the human race , and food for domestie animals . 2. A good farm is one which contains fertile land , suitable both for grass and for tillage ; which produces trees for fruit and ...
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... plants to penetrate it , and the plow to cut and turn it over at the same time , it admits water , for nour- ishing the roots of plants . 7. Pure sand is too loose to retain water , and therefore does not afford the means of nourishing ...
... plants to penetrate it , and the plow to cut and turn it over at the same time , it admits water , for nour- ishing the roots of plants . 7. Pure sand is too loose to retain water , and therefore does not afford the means of nourishing ...
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... plants require the light of the sun , and a free circulation of air ; and corn requires a conside- rable extent of ... plant extend a considerable distance from the stalk , in search of nourishment , and if the manure is all in the hill ...
... plants require the light of the sun , and a free circulation of air ; and corn requires a conside- rable extent of ... plant extend a considerable distance from the stalk , in search of nourishment , and if the manure is all in the hill ...
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Página 239 - No flocks that range the valley free, To slaughter I condemn, Taught by that Power that pities me, I learn to pity them : " But from the mountain's grassy side A guiltless feast I bring ; A scrip with herbs and fruits supplied, And water from the spring. " Then, Pilgrim, turn, thy cares forego ; All earth-born cares arc wrong ; Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long.
Página 88 - There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it; I have killed many; I have fully glutted my vengeance: for my country I rejoice at the beams of peace. But do not harbor a thought that mine is the joy of fear.
Página 238 - For here forlorn and lost I tread With fainting steps and slow ; Where wilds, immeasurably spread, Seem length'ning as I go." " Forbear, my son," the hermit cries, ' ' To tempt the dangerous gloom ; For yonder faithless phantom flies To lure thee to thy doom. "Here to the houseless child of want My door is open still; And though my portion is but scant, I give it with good will.
Página 43 - The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together : our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues.
Página 102 - Don't give too much for the whistle; and I saved my money.
Página 44 - Our indiscretion sometimes serves us well, When our deep plots do pall: and that should teach us, There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will.
Página 102 - I then came home, and went whistling all over the house, much pleased with my whistle, but disturbing all the family. My brothers, and sisters, and cousins, understanding the bargain...
Página 236 - Fortune in men has some small difference made, One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade ; The cobbler apron'd, and the parson gown'd, The friar hooded, and the monarch crown'd. " What differ more," you cry, " than crown and cowl ?" I'll tell you, friend ! a wise man and a fool.
Página 43 - Claudio; and I quake, Lest thou a feverous life shouldst entertain, And six or seven winters more respect Than a perpetual honour. Dar'st thou die ? The sense of death is most in apprehension ; And the poor beetle that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies.
Página 44 - Cowards die many times before their deaths ; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear ; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come, when it will come.