 | Charles Bilton - 1870 - 208 pages
...be humble from my example, and courtiers learn truth from your disgrace ! THE DISCONTENTED PENDULUM. AN old clock, that had stood for fifty years in a...kitchen without giving its owner any cause of complaint, early one summer's morning, before the family was stirring, suddenly stopped. Upon this the dial-plate... | |
 | Lewis Baxter Monroe - American literature - 1871 - 342 pages
...the acquisition of knowledge . . is one of the most pleasing employments . . of the human mind. 2. An old clock . . that had stood for fifty years ....without giving its owner . . any cause of complaint, . . early one summer's morning . . before the family was stirring . . suddenly stopped. 3. Hark ! .... | |
 | Lewis Baxter Monroe - Readers (Elementary) - 1872 - 254 pages
...Earth shall bless thee yet again, 0 jrentle, gentle summer rain ! XCIIL— THE DISCONTENTED PENDULUM. AN old clock that had stood for fifty years in a farmer's...kitchen without giving its owner any cause of complaint, early one summer's morning, before the family was stirring, suddenly stopped. Upon this, the dial-plate... | |
 | Lewis Baxter Monroe - Readers (Elementary) - 1872 - 254 pages
...soften all the hills with mist, 0 foiling dew! from burning dreams XCIIL—THE DISCONTENTED PENDULUM. AN old clock that had stood for fifty years in a farmer's...without giving its owner any cause of com-plaint, early one summer's morning, before the family was stirring, suddenly stopped. Upon this, the dial-plate... | |
 | Philip George and son, ltd - 1872 - 262 pages
...each his right, Lest God with such like misery You wicked minds requite. THE DISCONTENTED PENDULUM. AN old clock, that had stood for fifty years in a...kitchen, without giving its owner any cause of complaint, early one summer's morning, before the family was astir, suddenly stopped. Upon this, the dial-plate... | |
 | Robert Armstrong - 1872 - 344 pages
...sentences in two different ways, without altering the construction or destroying the sense. EXAMPLE. An old clock, that had stood for fifty years in a...kitchen, without giving its owner any cause of complaint, early one summer morning, before the family was stirring, suddenly stopped. CHANGED. 1. An old clock,... | |
 | Henry Dunn Smith - English language - 1872 - 104 pages
...of justice supposes two things : a rule of conduct, and a sentiment which sanctifies the rule. 24. An old clock, that had stood for fifty years in a...kitchen without giving its owner any cause of complaint, early one morning before the family was stirring, suddenly stopped. 25. Hath not a Jew hands ? Is he... | |
 | School board readers - 1872 - 200 pages
...beguile My heart of thoughts that made it ache, And force me to a smile. THE DISCONTENTED PENDULUM. As old clock, that had stood for fifty years in a farmer's...kitchen, without giving its owner any cause of complaint, early one summer's morning, before the family was stirring, suddenly stopped. Upon this the dial-plate... | |
 | Kensington series - 1872 - 232 pages
...sus-tain', to bear or hold up (L. teneo, I hold). im-mor-ta'-li-ty, eternal life (L. mors, death). An old clock that had stood for fifty years in a farmer's kitchen, without giving its owner any cause * Jane Taylor was born in the year 1785, at Lavenham, in the county of Suffolk. Like her sister Ann,... | |
 | Pádraig Ó Seaghdha - 1878 - 462 pages
...share of wit, And therefore 'tis a mark fools never hit. X.—THE DISCONTENTED PENDULUM. JANE TAYLOR. 1. An old clock, that had stood for fifty years in a farmer's kitchen w'lnout giving its owner any cause of complaint, early one summer's morning, before the family was... | |
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An old clock, that had stood for fifty years in a farmer's kitchen, without giving its owner any cause of complaint, early one summer's morning, before the family was stirring, suddenly stopped. Upon this, the dial-plate (if we may credit the fable,)... 
