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 by the Compilations of Murray, Scott, Enfield, Mylius, Thompson, Ewing and OthersRichardson, Lord, and Holbrook, 1831 - Всего страниц: 276 |
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... tombs of the desert , seen them rise from these boundless and unpeopled plains . My imagination and my heart have been full of the past . The nothingness of the brief dream of human life has forced itself upon my mind . The unknown race ...
... tombs of the desert , seen them rise from these boundless and unpeopled plains . My imagination and my heart have been full of the past . The nothingness of the brief dream of human life has forced itself upon my mind . The unknown race ...
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... tomb , In which your tribes sleep in earth's common womb , And mingle with the clay from which they rose . LESSON XXII . The American Indian , as he was , and as he is.-C. SPRAGUE . NOT many generations ago , where you now sit , circled ...
... tomb , In which your tribes sleep in earth's common womb , And mingle with the clay from which they rose . LESSON XXII . The American Indian , as he was , and as he is.-C. SPRAGUE . NOT many generations ago , where you now sit , circled ...
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... tomb . The dead hear nothing of the tumult ; they sleep soundly ; they rest from their calamities upon beds of peace . Con ducted to silent mansions , they cannot be troubled by the rudest assaults , nor awakened by the loudest clamour ...
... tomb . The dead hear nothing of the tumult ; they sleep soundly ; they rest from their calamities upon beds of peace . Con ducted to silent mansions , they cannot be troubled by the rudest assaults , nor awakened by the loudest clamour ...
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... tomb , our cares , our woes , In dark oblivion buried lie , Why paint that scene of calm repose In figures painful to the eye ? To die ! -what is in death to fear ? " Twill decompose my lifeless frame ! A Power , unseen , still watches ...
... tomb , our cares , our woes , In dark oblivion buried lie , Why paint that scene of calm repose In figures painful to the eye ? To die ! -what is in death to fear ? " Twill decompose my lifeless frame ! A Power , unseen , still watches ...
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... tomb . - Yes , ' tis the hand Of death I feel press heavy on my vitals , Slow - sapping the warm current of existence . My moments now are few . - The sand of life Ebbs fastly to its finish . - Yet a little , And the last fleeting ...
... tomb . - Yes , ' tis the hand Of death I feel press heavy on my vitals , Slow - sapping the warm current of existence . My moments now are few . - The sand of life Ebbs fastly to its finish . - Yet a little , And the last fleeting ...
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Стр. 263 - On its annual return they will shed tears, copious, gushing tears, not of subjection and slavery, not of agony and distress, but of exultation, of gratitude, and of joy. Sir, before God^ I believe the hour is come. My judgment approves this measure, and my whole heart is in it. All that I have, and all that I am, and all that I hope, in this life, I am now ready here to stake upon it ; and I leave off, as I begun, that live or die, survive or perish, I am for the Declaration.
Стр. 192 - By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around
Стр. 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...
Стр. 85 - Wept o'er his wounds, or, tales of sorrow done. Shouldered his crutch, and showed how fields were won. Pleased with his guests, the good man learned to glow, And quite forgot their vices in their woe ; Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began.
Стр. 68 - There were indeed some persons, but their number was very small, that continued a kind of hobbling march on the broken arches, but fell through one after another, being quite tired and spent with so long a walk.
Стр. 220 - We have petitioned ; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and parliament. Our petitions have been slighted ; our remonstrances have produced additional violence and insult; our supplications have been disregarded; and we have been spurned with contempt from the foot of the throne.
Стр. 196 - This is a misery much to be lamented, for though they were burning and shining lights in their times, yet they penetrated not into the whole counsel of God, but were they now living, would be as willing to embrace further light as that which they first received.
Стр. 67 - The valley that thou seest, said he, is the vale of misery, and the tide of water that thou seest is part of the great tide of eternity. What is the reason, said I, that the tide I see rises out of a thick mist at one end, and again loses itself in a thick mist at the other? What thou seest, said he, is that portion of eternity which is called time, measured out by the sun, and reaching from the beginning of the world to its consummation. Examine now...
Стр. 261 - Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and my heart to this vote.
Стр. 144 - 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?