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... ENGLISH IN TEACHERS COLLEGE AND SUPERVISOR OF ENGLISH IN THE HORACE MANN SCHOOL AND ASHLEY H. THORNDIKE PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH IN COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1918 All rights reserved ERALARD COLLEG GIFT OF YELL DEC ...
... ENGLISH IN TEACHERS COLLEGE AND SUPERVISOR OF ENGLISH IN THE HORACE MANN SCHOOL AND ASHLEY H. THORNDIKE PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH IN COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1918 All rights reserved ERALARD COLLEG GIFT OF YELL DEC ...
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... that remind us of these four exploring nations . Most of them will be 25 English , but you will find Spanish names in California and the states south of California . There are Dutch names 18 EVERYDAY CLASSICS DISCOVERY AND ADVENTURE.
... that remind us of these four exploring nations . Most of them will be 25 English , but you will find Spanish names in California and the states south of California . There are Dutch names 18 EVERYDAY CLASSICS DISCOVERY AND ADVENTURE.
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... English language of to - day . 1. What did the Indians look like ? 2. What did they do for a living ? What did the women do ? 3. How did they hunt ? 4. Describe their mimic warfare . For Study with the Glossary : ambuscade , covetous ...
... English language of to - day . 1. What did the Indians look like ? 2. What did they do for a living ? What did the women do ? 3. How did they hunt ? 4. Describe their mimic warfare . For Study with the Glossary : ambuscade , covetous ...
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... English forces 20 through the woods above a hundred miles backward and forward , at last was driven to his own den upon Mount Hope , where he retired , with a few of his best friends , into a swamp , which proved but a prison to keep ...
... English forces 20 through the woods above a hundred miles backward and forward , at last was driven to his own den upon Mount Hope , where he retired , with a few of his best friends , into a swamp , which proved but a prison to keep ...
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... English colonies and French Canada ; and a band of Hurons succeed in taking Hutter and a friend prisoners . Deerslayer has escaped from the Indians and has passed the night on the lake in his canoe . At dawn he looks about for the ...
... English colonies and French Canada ; and a band of Hurons succeed in taking Hutter and a friend prisoners . Deerslayer has escaped from the Indians and has passed the night on the lake in his canoe . At dawn he looks about for the ...
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Page 152 - object of our contest shall be obtained — we must fight! I repeat it, sir, we must fight! An appeal to arms and to the God of Hosts is all that is left us! They tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger
Page 152 - room for hope. If we wish to be free — if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending — if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon, until the
Page 151 - ment ? Sir, we have been trying that for the last ten years. Have we anything new to offer upon the subject? Nothing. We have held the subject up in every light of which it is capable; but it has been all in vain. Shall we resort to entreaty and humble supplication ? What terms shall we
Page 51 - 6 Or where the gorgeous East, with richest hand, Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold," — as he looked down, and beheld the lovely scene which spread beneath, at a summer sunset, the distant hill-tops glittering as with fire, the slanting beams streaming across
Page 366 - But, O heart! heart! heart! Oh, the bleeding drops of red, Where on the deck my captain lies, Fallen cold and dead. 0 captain! my captain! rise up and hear the bells! 10 Rise up ! for you the flag is flung, for you the bugle
Page 203 - the reflected rays of the setting sun. For some time Rip lay musing on this scene. Evening was gradually advancing; the mountains began to throw their long, blue shadows over the valleys; he saw that it would be dark long before he could reach the village, and he heaved a heavy sigh when he
Page 14 - From the deep drinking-horn Blew the foam lightly. "She was a Prince's child, I but a Viking wild, And though she blushed and smiled, 20 I was discarded ! Should not the dove so white Follow the sea-mew's flight, Why did they leave that night Her nest unguarded ? 25 "Scarce had I put to sea,
Page 294 - Are lying in their lowly beds, with the fair and good of ours. The rain is falling where they lie, but the cold November rain Calls not from out the gloomy earth the lovely ones again. The wind-flower and the violet, they perished long ago, And the brier-rose and the orchis died amid the summer glow; 15 But on the
Page 290 - 20 We could guess it all by yon heifer's lowing, — And hark! how clear bold chanticleer, Warmed with the new wine of the year, Tells all in his lusty crowing! Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how; 25 Everything is happy now, 'T is the natural way of living: Who knows whither the clouds have fled?
Page 216 - was reverenced as one of the patriarchs of the village, and a chronicle of the old times "before the war." It was some time before he could get into the regular track of gossip, or could be made to comprehend the strange events that had taken place during his torpor, — how that there had