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 iii
... never intended for them . And would it be to the honour of English literature , or of those men in England , who feel an interest in the prosperity of the state , and , consequently , an interest in seeing the young so educated , that ...
... never intended for them . And would it be to the honour of English literature , or of those men in England , who feel an interest in the prosperity of the state , and , consequently , an interest in seeing the young so educated , that ...
Side iv
... never be a good reader . In the humble hope that this compilation may contribute something to the accomplishing of the young , in this country , in the art of reading and speaking well , something to the improvement of their taste , the ...
... never be a good reader . In the humble hope that this compilation may contribute something to the accomplishing of the young , in this country , in the art of reading and speaking well , something to the improvement of their taste , the ...
Side 9
... never more to behold land . Columbus comforted them with as- surances of success , and the prospect of vast wealth in those opulent regions , whither he was conducting them : This early discovery of the spirit of his followers taught ...
... never more to behold land . Columbus comforted them with as- surances of success , and the prospect of vast wealth in those opulent regions , whither he was conducting them : This early discovery of the spirit of his followers taught ...
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... never idle , not even when he might be so , and yet escape detec tion and punishment . He minds his business as well when his teacher is out of sight , as when he is standing near him , or looking at him . If possible , he is more ...
... never idle , not even when he might be so , and yet escape detec tion and punishment . He minds his business as well when his teacher is out of sight , as when he is standing near him , or looking at him . If possible , he is more ...
Side 16
... never forgets to pray for the blessing of God on himself , on his school - fellows , and on his teacher ; for he knows that the blessing of God is necessary to make his education truly useful to him , both in this life , and in that ...
... never forgets to pray for the blessing of God on himself , on his school - fellows , and on his teacher ; for he knows that the blessing of God is necessary to make his education truly useful to him , both in this life , and in that ...
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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...