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 sider |
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Side 99
... ancient castle crowns the summit of the lofty mountain near you ; and numberless rills run down near the main sheet of water . But one of the most beautiful objects is occasioned by the quantity of foam produced by the fall , which ...
... ancient castle crowns the summit of the lofty mountain near you ; and numberless rills run down near the main sheet of water . But one of the most beautiful objects is occasioned by the quantity of foam produced by the fall , which ...
Side 102
... ancient chaos . Scenes of sudden desolation have often been disclosed in these islands to the morning's sun : uprooted trees , branches shivered from their trunks , and the ruins of houses , have been strewed over the land . The planter ...
... ancient chaos . Scenes of sudden desolation have often been disclosed in these islands to the morning's sun : uprooted trees , branches shivered from their trunks , and the ruins of houses , have been strewed over the land . The planter ...
Side 104
... ancients with sentiments only of dismay or horror ; as a barrier from hostile nations , or as the dwelling of barbarous tribes . The torch of reli- gion had not then lightened the face of nature ; they knew not the language which she ...
... ancients with sentiments only of dismay or horror ; as a barrier from hostile nations , or as the dwelling of barbarous tribes . The torch of reli- gion had not then lightened the face of nature ; they knew not the language which she ...
Side 139
... ancient years , Owns no superior , but the God she fears . Propitious Spirit ! yet expunge a wrong Thy rights have suffered , and our land , too long ; Teach mercy to ten thousand hearts , that share The fears and hopes of a commercial ...
... ancient years , Owns no superior , but the God she fears . Propitious Spirit ! yet expunge a wrong Thy rights have suffered , and our land , too long ; Teach mercy to ten thousand hearts , that share The fears and hopes of a commercial ...
Side 146
... ancient art , or power , or influence ? Why , for so many a year , has the poet and the philosopher wandered amidst the fragments of Athens or of Rome ? why paused , with strange and kindling feelings , amidst their broken columns ...
... ancient art , or power , or influence ? Why , for so many a year , has the poet and the philosopher wandered amidst the fragments of Athens or of Rome ? why paused , with strange and kindling feelings , amidst their broken columns ...
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Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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...
Side 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?
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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...