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 |
Inni boken
Resultat 1-5 av 16
Side vi
... Pilgrims in New England , abridged and compiled from . Robertson and Neal , 196 108. Extract from an Oration delivered at Plymouth ..... E . EVERETT . 200 109. Extract from the same ... 110. Claim of the Pilgrims to the Gratitude and ...
... Pilgrims in New England , abridged and compiled from . Robertson and Neal , 196 108. Extract from an Oration delivered at Plymouth ..... E . EVERETT . 200 109. Extract from the same ... 110. Claim of the Pilgrims to the Gratitude and ...
Side vii
... Pilgrims 113. The Pilgrim Fathers 121. Elegy , in a Country Churchyard .... 122. The Grave of Körner .. 123. God's First Temples . A Hymn 124. Hymn of Nature ... .BRYANT . 166 W. Russell . 178 Grahame . 179 Montgomery . 184 Wordsworth ...
... Pilgrims 113. The Pilgrim Fathers 121. Elegy , in a Country Churchyard .... 122. The Grave of Körner .. 123. God's First Temples . A Hymn 124. Hymn of Nature ... .BRYANT . 166 W. Russell . 178 Grahame . 179 Montgomery . 184 Wordsworth ...
Side 172
... pilgrims to the spot . Descending Olivet to the narrow valley of Jehosha- phat , you soon come to the pillar of Absalom : it has a very antiquet appearance , and is a pleasing object in the valley : it is of a yellow stone , adorned ...
... pilgrims to the spot . Descending Olivet to the narrow valley of Jehosha- phat , you soon come to the pillar of Absalom : it has a very antiquet appearance , and is a pleasing object in the valley : it is of a yellow stone , adorned ...
Side 173
... pilgrims from destroying it , in their zeal to carry off pieces to their homes ; and on this point their relation may , one would sup- pose , be believed . The valley of Hinnom now turns to the west of the city , and extends rather ...
... pilgrims from destroying it , in their zeal to carry off pieces to their homes ; and on this point their relation may , one would sup- pose , be believed . The valley of Hinnom now turns to the west of the city , and extends rather ...
Side 182
... pilgrims , probably for worship . But Sinai has four summits ; and that of Moses stands almost in the middle of the others , and is not visible from below , so that the spot where he received the law must have been hid from the view of ...
... pilgrims , probably for worship . But Sinai has four summits ; and that of Moses stands almost in the middle of the others , and is not visible from below , so that the spot where he received the law must have been hid from the view of ...
Andre utgaver - Vis alle
The National Reader: A Selection of Exercises in Reading and Speaking ... John Pierpont Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1832 |
The National Reader: A Selection of Exercises in Reading and Speaking ... John Pierpont Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1835 |
The National Reader: A Selection of Exercises in Reading and Speaking ... John Pierpont Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1827 |
Vanlige uttrykk og setninger
Absalom American amidst appeared beauty blessings bosom Boston Breed's Hill bright called cataract Charlestown clouds Columbus dark death deep earth edition England English English language eternity fathers fear feel flowers friends genius German language give glory Grammar grave Greek hand happy hath hear heart heaven hills hope hour human Italian language Jehoshaphat JOHN FARRAR labour land language Latin Latin language LESSON light live look Lord lord Dunmore mind moral morning mountains Natural Philosophy nature never night o'er object once Ovid passed peace plain Price Pron racter render rest rise river rock rolling round scene scholar Septuagint shade silent smile sorrow soul sound spirit spot summit tears Terni thee thing thou thought tion tomb trees valley village Virgil virtue voice wander waves winds words young youth
Populære avsnitt
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...