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 Others |
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... roll , And spread the truth from pole to pole . What though , in solemn silence , all Move round this dark terrestrial ball ! What though nor real voice , nor sound , Amid their radiant orbs be found ! In reason's ear they all rejoice ...
... roll , And spread the truth from pole to pole . What though , in solemn silence , all Move round this dark terrestrial ball ! What though nor real voice , nor sound , Amid their radiant orbs be found ! In reason's ear they all rejoice ...
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... rolling forest tops , And down into the secrets of the glens And streams , that , with their bordering thickets , strive To hide their windings . Thou shalt gaze , at once , Here on white villages , and tilth , and herds , And swarming ...
... rolling forest tops , And down into the secrets of the glens And streams , that , with their bordering thickets , strive To hide their windings . Thou shalt gaze , at once , Here on white villages , and tilth , and herds , And swarming ...
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... rolls over your heads , the Indian hunter pursued the panting deer : gazing on the same moon that smiles for you , the Indian lover wooed his dusky mate . Here the wigwam blaze beamed on the tender and help- les , the council - fire ...
... rolls over your heads , the Indian hunter pursued the panting deer : gazing on the same moon that smiles for you , the Indian lover wooed his dusky mate . Here the wigwam blaze beamed on the tender and help- les , the council - fire ...
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... our woes to sleep , in peace , with- out the fear of interruption - how pleasing is the prospect ! how full of consolation ! Pron , um ' - bl'd . The ocean may roll its waves , the warring winds 5 NATIONAL READER . 49 Mackenzie.
... our woes to sleep , in peace , with- out the fear of interruption - how pleasing is the prospect ! how full of consolation ! Pron , um ' - bl'd . The ocean may roll its waves , the warring winds 5 NATIONAL READER . 49 Mackenzie.
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... roll its waves , the warring winds may join their forces , the thunders may shake the skies , * and the lightnings pass , swiftly , from cloud to cloud : but not the forces of the elements , combined , not the sounds of thun- ders , nor ...
... roll its waves , the warring winds may join their forces , the thunders may shake the skies , * and the lightnings pass , swiftly , from cloud to cloud : but not the forces of the elements , combined , not the sounds of thun- ders , nor ...
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Page 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.
Page 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
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 261 - Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and my heart to this vote.
Page 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?