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... wagon , proceeding at a very slow rate , and taking up the whole road . Finding that the owner was not disposed to turn out , we deter- mined upon a volley of snowballs and a good hurrah . 5. " They produced the right effect , for the ...
... wagon , proceeding at a very slow rate , and taking up the whole road . Finding that the owner was not disposed to turn out , we deter- mined upon a volley of snowballs and a good hurrah . 5. " They produced the right effect , for the ...
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... wagon , and for the winter his sleigh , which he fastened behind the wagon . owner . - 10. " His sight and hearing were somewhat blunt- ed by age , and he was proceeding very slowly and quietly , for his horse was old and feeble , like ...
... wagon , and for the winter his sleigh , which he fastened behind the wagon . owner . - 10. " His sight and hearing were somewhat blunt- ed by age , and he was proceeding very slowly and quietly , for his horse was old and feeble , like ...
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... wagon , but it was gone away . He expected it back every minute , for it had only gone two or three miles away ; and as soon as it returned , Mr. Holiday and his son might have it . 2. " Is there not some other wagon or chaise in the ...
... wagon , but it was gone away . He expected it back every minute , for it had only gone two or three miles away ; and as soon as it returned , Mr. Holiday and his son might have it . 2. " Is there not some other wagon or chaise in the ...
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... wagon in the place . 8. " Now , men generally tell the truth , unless they have an interest in falsehood ; and he has an inter- est in preventing our finding another wagon , for he wants us to hire his . So I am in doubt , whether I ...
... wagon in the place . 8. " Now , men generally tell the truth , unless they have an interest in falsehood ; and he has an inter- est in preventing our finding another wagon , for he wants us to hire his . So I am in doubt , whether I ...
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... man if he knew of any body near , who could prob- ably let him have a horse and wagon to go four or five miles . 2. The man said he had one himself . Mr. Holi- day was very glad ; and after agreeing about the 7 * GRADUAL READER 7 Continued,
... man if he knew of any body near , who could prob- ably let him have a horse and wagon to go four or five miles . 2. The man said he had one himself . Mr. Holi- day was very glad ; and after agreeing about the 7 * GRADUAL READER 7 Continued,
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Page 156 - Toilsome and indigent) she renders much ; Just knows, and knows no more, her bible true, A truth the brilliant Frenchman never knew, And in that charter reads, with sparkling eyes, Her title to a treasure in the skies.
Page 164 - The quality of mercy is not strained; It droppeth, as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath ; it is twice blessed ; It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes...
Page 230 - I cry aloud to all and sundry in my plainest accents and at the very tiptop of my voice. Here it is, gentlemen ! Here is the good liquor...
Page 234 - The husband and wife, drinking deep of peaceful joy — a calm bliss of temperate affections shall pass hand in hand through life and lie down not reluctantly at its protracted close. To them the past will be no turmoil of mad dreams, nor the future an eternity of such moments as follow the delirium of the drunkard. Their dead faces shall express what their spirits were and are to be by a lingering smile of memory and hope.
Page 71 - ... it does not give the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from falling into any depths of sorrow Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.
Page 198 - The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere. Heaped in the hollows of the grove, the autumn leaves lie dead ; They rustle to the eddying gust, and to the rabbit's tread.
Page 229 - town treasurer" is rightfully mine, as guardian of the best treasure that the town has. The overseers of the poor ought to make me their chairman, since I provide bountifully for the pauper, without expense to him that pays taxes.
Page 33 - Order is Heaven's first law; and this confest, Some are, and must be, greater than the rest, More rich, more wise; but who infers from hence That such are happier, shocks all common sense.
Page 72 - It is pleasant to be virtuous and good ; because that is to excel many others : it is pleasant to grow better; because that is to excel ourselves: it is pleasant to command our appetites and passions, and to keep them in due order, within the bounds of reason and religion ; because this is empire : nay, it is pleasant even to mortify and subdue our lusts , because that is victory.
Page 31 - E'en on the edge that wrought her death Dying she breathes her sweetest breath, As if to token, in her fall, Peace to her foes, and love to all.