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Compellatives are the names of persons , or things , used in addressing them . ( See Course of Reading , pp . 58-61 , and El . of Read . and Or . , Ch . IV . 1. class III . 3 , Rule V. 8. ) These compellatives usually , or rather nearly ...
Compellatives are the names of persons , or things , used in addressing them . ( See Course of Reading , pp . 58-61 , and El . of Read . and Or . , Ch . IV . 1. class III . 3 , Rule V. 8. ) These compellatives usually , or rather nearly ...
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... or must I go in person ! Was he really bent on having the watch , or did he merely pretend to want it for the sake of teasing his brother REMARKS . For the effect of emphasis on this question , see " Course , " p .
... or must I go in person ! Was he really bent on having the watch , or did he merely pretend to want it for the sake of teasing his brother REMARKS . For the effect of emphasis on this question , see " Course , " p .
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They must be taught , if taught at all , by nature , observation , and practice : by considering , first , how a person would express a given sentence imbued with a given passion , and then endeavoring to express it in that particular ...
They must be taught , if taught at all , by nature , observation , and practice : by considering , first , how a person would express a given sentence imbued with a given passion , and then endeavoring to express it in that particular ...
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1 THOSE persons who speak evil of others , have sometimes reason to repent very bitterly of their conduct : especially 2 those persons who thus speak among strangers . The following is a striking case of this .
1 THOSE persons who speak evil of others , have sometimes reason to repent very bitterly of their conduct : especially 2 those persons who thus speak among strangers . The following is a striking case of this .
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It was formerly customary for persons of high rank to keep such persons about them . What is a nobleman ? Define provision , entertainment . SECT . XXVI . HOW MOLLY MORTON GOT COALS . 1 I WILL tell you of an occurrence at which you may ...
It was formerly customary for persons of high rank to keep such persons about them . What is a nobleman ? Define provision , entertainment . SECT . XXVI . HOW MOLLY MORTON GOT COALS . 1 I WILL tell you of an occurrence at which you may ...
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Page 157 - And when Peter was come to himself, he said, Now I know of a surety that the Lord hath sent his angel and hath delivered me out of the hand of Herod, and from all the expectation of the people of the Jews.
Page 108 - I would not live alway ; no, welcome the tomb ! Since Jesus hath lain there, I dread not its gloom ; There, sweet be my rest, till He bid me arise To hail Him in triumph descending the skies.
Page 169 - There were two men in one city; the one rich, and the other poor. The rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds: but the poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb...
Page 174 - Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?
Page 85 - The LORD is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation : he is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation ; my father's God, and I will exalt him. 3 The LORD is a man of war : the LORD is his name.
Page 169 - And there came a traveller unto the rich man, and he spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd, to dress for the wayfaring man that was come unto him ; but took the poor man's lamb, and dressed it for the man that was come to him.
Page 168 - If discord and disunion shall wound it — if party strife and blind ambition shall hawk at and tear it — if folly and madness — if uneasiness, under salutary and necessary restraint shall succeed to separate it from that union, by which alone its existence is made sure, it will stand, in the end, by the side of that cradle in which its infancy was rocked; it will stretch forth its arm with whatever of vigor it may still retain, over the friends who gather round it; and it will fall at last,...
Page 11 - Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land ? Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned, From wandering on a foreign strand...
Page 104 - Westward the course of empire takes its way, The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day : Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Page 118 - Two things have I required of thee ; deny me them not before I die: Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches ; feed me with food convenient for me: lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
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| Title | Fourth Reader: For Common Schools and Academies Mandeville's series Part 4 of Series of school readers, Henry Mandeville |
| Author | Henry Mandeville |
| Publisher | D. Appleton & Company, 1851 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 25 Mar 2008 |
| Length | 264 pages |
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