The National Reader: A Selection of Exercises in Reading and Speaking, Designed to Fill the Same Place in the Schools of the United States that is Held in Those of Great Britain by the Compilations of Murray, Scott, Enfield, Mylius, Thompson, Ewing and OthersRichardson, Lord, and Holbrook, 1831 - 276 Seiten |
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... amidst the immensity of his works . In the boundless subject the soul is lost . " It is he who sitteth on the circle of the earth , and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers . He weigh- eth the mountains in scales . He taketh up ...
... amidst the immensity of his works . In the boundless subject the soul is lost . " It is he who sitteth on the circle of the earth , and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers . He weigh- eth the mountains in scales . He taketh up ...
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... monuments of Gothic grandeur , fearful and tremu- lous amidst the revolutions of time . Neither the pride of rank , the allurements of honours , nor the hopes of distinction , can afford to the 34 NATIONAL READER . The Vision of Mirza.
... monuments of Gothic grandeur , fearful and tremu- lous amidst the revolutions of time . Neither the pride of rank , the allurements of honours , nor the hopes of distinction , can afford to the 34 NATIONAL READER . The Vision of Mirza.
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... amidst wars and quarrels , like the present Indians , they would , doubtless , have maintained their ground , and their posterity would have remained to this day . Be- side them moulder the huge bones of their contemporary beasts ...
... amidst wars and quarrels , like the present Indians , they would , doubtless , have maintained their ground , and their posterity would have remained to this day . Be- side them moulder the huge bones of their contemporary beasts ...
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... amidst tortures and death a virtue , which , rather than forfeit its conscious in- tegrity , could be content to resign its consciousness forever . And shall not the Christian blush to repine ? —the Christian , from before whom the veil ...
... amidst tortures and death a virtue , which , rather than forfeit its conscious in- tegrity , could be content to resign its consciousness forever . And shall not the Christian blush to repine ? —the Christian , from before whom the veil ...
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... amidst the watery tumult , and added terrors to the abyss from which they issued . The sun , looking majestically through the ascend- ing spray , was encircled by a radiant hālo ; while fragments of rainbows floated on every side , and ...
... amidst the watery tumult , and added terrors to the abyss from which they issued . The sun , looking majestically through the ascend- ing spray , was encircled by a radiant hālo ; while fragments of rainbows floated on every side , and ...
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American amidst beauty behold beneath blessings bosom breath Breed's Hill bright Brownists Bunker's Hill called cataract Charlestown clouds Copp's Hill dark death deep descend earth eternity fathers fear feel fire flowers friends Gehazi glorious glory grave hallowed ground hand happy hath hear heard heart heaven hills honour hope hour human Jehoshaphat labour land LESSON Lexington light live look Lord lord Dunmore lyre mind moral morning Mount of Olives mountains Mystic River Naaman nature never night o'er passed peace pilgrim plain Pron Puritans racter religion rest rise river rock roll round scene shade shine shore side silent smile song sorrow soul sound spirit spot stars storm summit tears Terni thee thing thou thought tion tomb trees valley village virtue voice wander waters waves wild wilderness winds young youth
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Seite 263 - On its annual return they will shed tears, copious, gushing tears, not of subjection and slavery, not of agony and distress, but of exultation, of gratitude, and of joy. Sir, before God^ I believe the hour is come. My judgment approves this measure, and my whole heart is in it. All that I have, and all that I am, and all that I hope, in this life, I am now ready here to stake upon it ; and I leave off, as I begun, that live or die, survive or perish, I am for the Declaration.
Seite 192 - By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around
Seite 21 - OH THAT I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me; When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness...
Seite 85 - Wept o'er his wounds, or, tales of sorrow done. Shouldered his crutch, and showed how fields were won. Pleased with his guests, the good man learned to glow, And quite forgot their vices in their woe ; Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began.
Seite 68 - There were indeed some persons, but their number was very small, that continued a kind of hobbling march on the broken arches, but fell through one after another, being quite tired and spent with so long a walk.
Seite 220 - We have petitioned ; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and parliament. Our petitions have been slighted ; our remonstrances have produced additional violence and insult; our supplications have been disregarded; and we have been spurned with contempt from the foot of the throne.
Seite 196 - This is a misery much to be lamented, for though they were burning and shining lights in their times, yet they penetrated not into the whole counsel of God, but were they now living, would be as willing to embrace further light as that which they first received.
Seite 67 - The valley that thou seest, said he, is the vale of misery, and the tide of water that thou seest is part of the great tide of eternity. What is the reason, said I, that the tide I see rises out of a thick mist at one end, and again loses itself in a thick mist at the other? What thou seest, said he, is that portion of eternity which is called time, measured out by the sun, and reaching from the beginning of the world to its consummation. Examine now...
Seite 261 - Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and my heart to this vote.
Seite 144 - And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it ? how much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash, and be clean?