The Fourth Reader; Or, Exercises in Reading and Speaking: Designed for the Higher Classes in Our Public and Private Schools |
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... knowledge . A primary object , in presenting this work , has been to furnish a thorough and systematic course of reading , and to lead our youth to a more careful and critical study of its principles . The author believes that reading ...
... knowledge . A primary object , in presenting this work , has been to furnish a thorough and systematic course of reading , and to lead our youth to a more careful and critical study of its principles . The author believes that reading ...
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... knowledge . The selections have been made from the best writers in the language , and are distinguished for elegance of diction and classical style . Every expression which would have a tendency to vitiate the taste has been rejected ...
... knowledge . The selections have been made from the best writers in the language , and are distinguished for elegance of diction and classical style . Every expression which would have a tendency to vitiate the taste has been rejected ...
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... Knowledge , 4. On the Study of History ,. PROSE . • PACE . · Bancroft . 75 · Shaw . 17 • Irving . 71 Everett . 82 Morley . 80 66 88 Story . 90 Mrs. Sigourney . 95 " " 98 Watts . 101 • 103 15. Ancient Rome , 16. Same Subject , concluded ...
... Knowledge , 4. On the Study of History ,. PROSE . • PACE . · Bancroft . 75 · Shaw . 17 • Irving . 71 Everett . 82 Morley . 80 66 88 Story . 90 Mrs. Sigourney . 95 " " 98 Watts . 101 • 103 15. Ancient Rome , 16. Same Subject , concluded ...
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... knowledge , as to acquire it . He did not act prúdently , but imprudently . We are not descendants of the Rómans , but of the Saxons . He was esteemed for wisdom , not for wealth . EXCEPTION . When negation is attended with strong em ...
... knowledge , as to acquire it . He did not act prúdently , but imprudently . We are not descendants of the Rómans , but of the Saxons . He was esteemed for wisdom , not for wealth . EXCEPTION . When negation is attended with strong em ...
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... knowledge of Dryden , and more certainty in that of Pope . Poetry was not the sole praise of either ; for both excelled likewise in prose ; but Pope did not borrow his prose from his predecessor . The style of Dryden is capricious and ...
... knowledge of Dryden , and more certainty in that of Pope . Poetry was not the sole praise of either ; for both excelled likewise in prose ; but Pope did not borrow his prose from his predecessor . The style of Dryden is capricious and ...
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Page 374 - Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man. The golden sun, The planets, all the infinite host of heaven, Are shining on the sad abodes of death, Through the still lapse of ages. All that tread The globe are but a handful to the tribes That slumber in its bosom.
Page 373 - Nor in the embrace of ocean shall exist Thy image. Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim Thy growth, to be resolved to earth again...
Page 403 - Sir, we are not weak, if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. Three millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us.
Page 49 - I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is?
Page 45 - For I can raise no money by vile means: By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash By any indirection...
Page 24 - Some Books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; That is, some Books are to be read only in parts; others to be read but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. Some Books also may be read by deputy...
Page 45 - There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats ; For I am armed so strong in honesty, That they pass by me, as the idle wind, Which I respect not.
Page 37 - To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in Heaven. As some tall cliff, that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale and midway leaves the storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
Page 352 - The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless spirit, speaking on the tongue, beaming from the eye, informing every feature, and urging the whole man onward, right onward to his object, — this, this is eloquence; or rather it is something greater and higher than all eloquence, it is action, noble, sublime, godlike action.
Page 322 - The great trust now descends to new hands. Let us apply ourselves to that which is presented to us, as our appropriate object. We can win no laurels in a war for independence. Earlier and worthier hands have gathered them all. Nor are there places for us by the side of Solon, and Alfred, and other founders of states. Our fathers have filled them.