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 páginas |
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... labour of making one ? This country has political institutions of its own - institutions which the men of each successive generation mast uphold . Eu this they cannot do , unless they are early made to understand and value them . I has ...
... labour of making one ? This country has political institutions of its own - institutions which the men of each successive generation mast uphold . Eu this they cannot do , unless they are early made to understand and value them . I has ...
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... labour . " The youngest , named Edmund , was industrious and at- tentive . He busied himself in clearing his tree of insects that would hurt it , and he propped up its stem , to prevent its taking a wrong bent . He loosened the earth ...
... labour . " The youngest , named Edmund , was industrious and at- tentive . He busied himself in clearing his tree of insects that would hurt it , and he propped up its stem , to prevent its taking a wrong bent . He loosened the earth ...
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... labour to feed the idle ! Be satisfied with your lot ; it is the effect of your negligence ; and do not think to accuse me of injustice , when you see your brother's rich crop . " Your tree was as fruitful , and in as good order as his ...
... labour to feed the idle ! Be satisfied with your lot ; it is the effect of your negligence ; and do not think to accuse me of injustice , when you see your brother's rich crop . " Your tree was as fruitful , and in as good order as his ...
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... labour . The poor man is taught , absurdly , to think a glass necessary for his strength ; he finds another necessary for good com- panionship . He cannot go abroad without finding a lure invitingly held out beneath the license of the ...
... labour . The poor man is taught , absurdly , to think a glass necessary for his strength ; he finds another necessary for good com- panionship . He cannot go abroad without finding a lure invitingly held out beneath the license of the ...
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... labour in vain . Every difficulty , and every trial , that occurs in your path , is a fresh opportunity , presented by his kindness , of improving the happiness , after which he hath taught you to aspire . By every hardship which you ...
... labour in vain . Every difficulty , and every trial , that occurs in your path , is a fresh opportunity , presented by his kindness , of improving the happiness , after which he hath taught you to aspire . By every hardship which you ...
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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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?
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...