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 pagina's |
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Pagina vii
... Scene of Childhood ... Blackwood's Ed . Magazine . 129 85. The Voice of Spring 89. Childhood and Manhood . An Apologue . 96. " That ye , through his poverty , might be rich " 129. Warren's Address before the Battle of Bunker's Hill ...
... Scene of Childhood ... Blackwood's Ed . Magazine . 129 85. The Voice of Spring 89. Childhood and Manhood . An Apologue . 96. " That ye , through his poverty , might be rich " 129. Warren's Address before the Battle of Bunker's Hill ...
Pagina 13
... scene now before them . Every herb , and shrub , and tree , was differ- ent from those which flourished in Europe . The soil seem- ed to be rich , but bore few marks of cultivation . The cli- mate , even to Spaniards , felt warm ...
... scene now before them . Every herb , and shrub , and tree , was differ- ent from those which flourished in Europe . The soil seem- ed to be rich , but bore few marks of cultivation . The cli- mate , even to Spaniards , felt warm ...
Pagina 26
... scenes of nature , and accustom yourselves to connect them with the perfections of God . All vast and unmeasurable ... scene of wonders is here presented to your view ! If beheld with a religious eye , what a temple for the worship of ...
... scenes of nature , and accustom yourselves to connect them with the perfections of God . All vast and unmeasurable ... scene of wonders is here presented to your view ! If beheld with a religious eye , what a temple for the worship of ...
Pagina 27
... scene ; to show you the immensity of space filled with worlds unnumbered , that your imaginations may wander , without a limit , in the vast creation of God . What a field is here opened for the exercise of every pious emotion ! and how ...
... scene ; to show you the immensity of space filled with worlds unnumbered , that your imaginations may wander , without a limit , in the vast creation of God . What a field is here opened for the exercise of every pious emotion ! and how ...
Pagina 40
... scene Is lovely round . A beautiful river there Wanders amid the fresh and fertile meads , The paradise he made unto himself , Mining the soil for ages . On each side The fields swell upward to the hills ; beyond , Above the hills , in ...
... scene Is lovely round . A beautiful river there Wanders amid the fresh and fertile meads , The paradise he made unto himself , Mining the soil for ages . On each side The fields swell upward to the hills ; beyond , Above the hills , in ...
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Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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?
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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...