North American Second Class Reader: The Fourth Book of Tower's Series for Common Schools : Developing Principles of Elocution, Practically Illustrated by Elementary Exercises : with Reading Lessons ... Designed to Follow the "Gradual Reader"Cady and Burgess, 1850 - 276 páginas |
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Página 13
... animal function , a mere mechanical exercise , waywardly directed by ignorance , indi- vidual instinct , or caprice . 13. The voice is to be attended to in the very outset . It is then that correct principles should be inculcated , and ...
... animal function , a mere mechanical exercise , waywardly directed by ignorance , indi- vidual instinct , or caprice . 13. The voice is to be attended to in the very outset . It is then that correct principles should be inculcated , and ...
Página 77
... animal life can never becomingly engross the concern of a rational creature . Fitted for much nobler , and worthier attainments , we are by that fitness for them called to pursue them . " - Ask those of either sex , who rate highest the ...
... animal life can never becomingly engross the concern of a rational creature . Fitted for much nobler , and worthier attainments , we are by that fitness for them called to pursue them . " - Ask those of either sex , who rate highest the ...
Página 105
... animal , furnished with a native stock within myself . This large castle ( to show my improvements in the mathematics ) is all built with my own hands , and the materials extracted altogether out of my own person . " " I am glad ...
... animal , furnished with a native stock within myself . This large castle ( to show my improvements in the mathematics ) is all built with my own hands , and the materials extracted altogether out of my own person . " " I am glad ...
Página 169
... animals is established in his hands ; and it is this , mainly , which enables him to exercise dominion over the powers of nature , and to subdue them to himself . But it is also true that his own animal organization gives w 166 , 184 ...
... animals is established in his hands ; and it is this , mainly , which enables him to exercise dominion over the powers of nature , and to subdue them to himself . But it is also true that his own animal organization gives w 166 , 184 ...
Página 171
... animal , mentioned in the book of Job , by some supposed to be the croco- dile , by some the whale , and by others an animal now extinct . UN- WIELDY ; unmanageable , ponderous , clumsy . GAIT ; manner of walking , bearing , carriage ...
... animal , mentioned in the book of Job , by some supposed to be the croco- dile , by some the whale , and by others an animal now extinct . UN- WIELDY ; unmanageable , ponderous , clumsy . GAIT ; manner of walking , bearing , carriage ...
Términos y frases comunes
animal beauty black knight blessings blossoms boys like girls bright Cæsar called Captain Kidd Cato Charlestown circumflex creatures death dream earth elocution emphasis enjoyment evil exercise expression falling inflection father favorable feel flowers force friends genius give glorious glory grave Hampshire's granite hand happiness hast hath heart heaven helmet of Navarre Henry of Navarre hills hope human Hypanis Inchcape rock Jonathan Juba KNIGHT ERRANTRY labor land learned lesson live look manner meaning ment mind nature never night o'er pass passion pause perfect PERICARDIUM Peter Stuyvesant pleasure poor present pupil remaining bands ringing sound rising inflection Roche scene season sentence sentiment short sorrow soul speak spring stress sublime syllables tears tender thee thing thou thought thousand tion toil uttered voice wind wisdom Wolfert words
Pasajes populares
Página 175 - O Caledonia ! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child ! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood...
Página 135 - And what is so rare as a day in June ? Then, if ever, come perfect days; Then Heaven tries the earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays : Whether we look, or whether we listen, We hear life murmur, or see it glisten ; Every clod feels a stir of might. An instinct within it that reaches and towers, And, groping blindly above it for light, Climbs to a soul in grass and flowers...
Página 171 - THE way was long, the wind was cold, The Minstrel was infirm and old ; His wither'd cheek, and tresses grey, Seem'd to have known a better day ; The harp, his sole remaining joy, Was carried by an orphan boy. The last of all the Bards was he, Who sung of Border chivalry...
Página 275 - Now, by the lips of those ye love, fair gentlemen of France, Charge for the golden lilies now, upon them with the lance ! A thousand spurs are striking deep, a thousand spears in rest, A thousand knights are pressing close behind the snow-white crest ; And in they burst, and on they rushed, while, like a guiding star, Amidst the thickest carnage blazed the helmet of Navarre.
Página 74 - His lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed: Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury.
Página 128 - No, the love which survives the tomb is one of the noblest attributes of the soul. If it has its woes, it has likewise its delights; and when the overwhelming burst of grief is calmed into the gentle tear of recollection...
Página 91 - Speak gently ; it is better far To rule by love than fear ; Speak gently — let no harsh words mar The good we might do here.
Página 135 - The little bird sits at his door in the sun, Atilt like a blossom among the leaves, And lets his illumined being o'errun With the deluge of summer it receives; His mate feels the eggs beneath her wings, And the heart in her dumb breast flutters and sings; He sings to the wide world, and she to her nest, — In the nice ear of Nature which song is the best...
Página 130 - ... then be sure that every unkind look, every ungracious word, every ungentle action, will come thronging back upon thy memory and knocking dolefully at thy soul — then be sure that thou wilt lie down sorrowing and repentant on the grave, and utter the unheard groan, and pour the unavailing tear ; more deep, more bitter, because unheard and unavailing.
Página 260 - But whatever may be our fate, be assured, be assured that this Declaration will stand. It may cost treasure, and it may cost blood; but it will stand, and it will richly compensate for both. Through the thick gloom of the present, I see the brightness of the future, as the sun in heaven.