The Fourth Reader: Or, Exercises in Reading and Speaking. Designed for the Higher Classes in Our Public and Private Schools |
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... Labor , 26. Mental Discipline , 28. Exalted Character of Poetry , 29. The Fine Arts , 30. Physical Education , 31. Advantages of Temperance , 32. Astronomy , 34. Unwritten Music , 35. The Falls of Niagara , 37. The Sea , 38. Same ...
... Labor , 26. Mental Discipline , 28. Exalted Character of Poetry , 29. The Fine Arts , 30. Physical Education , 31. Advantages of Temperance , 32. Astronomy , 34. Unwritten Music , 35. The Falls of Niagara , 37. The Sea , 38. Same ...
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... labor sweetens rest . " T is with our judgments as our watches ; none Go just alike , yet each believes his own . Many persons mistake the love for the practice of virtue . A friend exaggerates a man's virtues ; an enemy his crimes ...
... labor sweetens rest . " T is with our judgments as our watches ; none Go just alike , yet each believes his own . Many persons mistake the love for the practice of virtue . A friend exaggerates a man's virtues ; an enemy his crimes ...
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... to damp our elevated aims , And strongly preach humility to man . O , how portentous is prosperity ! How , comet - like , it threatens , while it shines ! Few years but yield us proof of death's ambition , 3 TOWN'S FOURTH READER . 25 Labor,
... to damp our elevated aims , And strongly preach humility to man . O , how portentous is prosperity ! How , comet - like , it threatens , while it shines ! Few years but yield us proof of death's ambition , 3 TOWN'S FOURTH READER . 25 Labor,
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... labor to improve themselves . They should feel , that to them , for a time , are committed the future orators | of the land . 5. We had rather have a child , even of the other sex , re- turn to us from school a first - rate reader ...
... labor to improve themselves . They should feel , that to them , for a time , are committed the future orators | of the land . 5. We had rather have a child , even of the other sex , re- turn to us from school a first - rate reader ...
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... labor rewarded with sure and unexampled returns . Domestic peace is maintained without the aid of a military establishment ; public sentiment permits the existence of but few standing troops , and those only along the seaboard and on ...
... labor rewarded with sure and unexampled returns . Domestic peace is maintained without the aid of a military establishment ; public sentiment permits the existence of but few standing troops , and those only along the seaboard and on ...
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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 374 - So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan that moves To the pale realms of shade, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
Page 401 - Ask yourselves how this gracious reception of our petition comports with those warlike preparations which cover our waters and darken our land. Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation? Have we shown ourselves so unwilling to be reconciled that force must be called in to win back our love?
Page 373 - The hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun, — the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between ; The venerable woods — rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste, — Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man.
Page 73 - And the widows of Ashur are loud in their wail, And the idols are broke in the temple of Baal ; And the might of the Gentile, unsmote by the sword, Hath melted like snow in the glance of the Lord ! Lord Byron.
Page 401 - For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth ; to know the worst and to provide for it. I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided ; and that is the lamp of experience.
Page 40 - The style of Dryden is capricious and varied, that of Pope is cautious and uniform; Dryden obeys the motions of his own mind, Pope constrains his mind to his own rules of composition. Dryden is sometimes vehement and rapid; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle.
Page 41 - FORASMUCH as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us, even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word...
Page 73 - Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen: Like the leaves of the forest when Autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strown. For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast, And breathed in the face of the foe as he passed...
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...