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... England is ordering transatlantic locks for his strong box ; or when the English Yacht and the American Clipper are speeding together through the waves , and the one learning from the other how to form his keel , so as to cut them more ...
... England is ordering transatlantic locks for his strong box ; or when the English Yacht and the American Clipper are speeding together through the waves , and the one learning from the other how to form his keel , so as to cut them more ...
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... England , in regard to the European struggle for liberty ; and the hand of America is stretched across the Atlantic in defiance of the oppressors , and in aid of the oppressed . Have we not been gladdened to see the exile and the ...
... England , in regard to the European struggle for liberty ; and the hand of America is stretched across the Atlantic in defiance of the oppressors , and in aid of the oppressed . Have we not been gladdened to see the exile and the ...
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... England , mis- take the important objects of instruction , and omit them in favour of the showy or amusing . In this way only can I account for the listlessness or even the impatience that I have seen manifested in school examinations ...
... England , mis- take the important objects of instruction , and omit them in favour of the showy or amusing . In this way only can I account for the listlessness or even the impatience that I have seen manifested in school examinations ...
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... England we are sufficiently accustomed to such wiles , and we have seen music made the plea for the introduction of many an Ora pro nobis to the Virgin , which the unthinking have accepted because of its beauty . Another mode of ...
... England we are sufficiently accustomed to such wiles , and we have seen music made the plea for the introduction of many an Ora pro nobis to the Virgin , which the unthinking have accepted because of its beauty . Another mode of ...
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... England ; but as members of the community , who have a part to act themselves , and who are as much interested in the credit of the school as the teachers . The effect of this is to excite a common interest between teachers and taught ...
... England ; but as members of the community , who have a part to act themselves , and who are as much interested in the credit of the school as the teachers . The effect of this is to excite a common interest between teachers and taught ...
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Page 118 - This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him, and saved him out of all his trouble;" but this ought to be, and might be, the experience of every praying heart, were it not for lurking unbelief. In some of our Scottish prayer-meetings, I have felt a degree of distraction of purpose, and want of
Page 79 - orphans, in their Asylum at New York— " Uncle Sam * is rich enough To give us all a farm." The facility with which enough, and more than enough, is found to satisfy every hungry mouth on a farm, gives wonderful scope to the benevolent sentiment. Compassion needs but to well up at its
Page 147 - shining hair ; She is leaving the home of her childhood's mirth, She hath bid farewell to her father's hearth; Her place is now by another's side— Bring flowers for the locks of the fair young bride!" Then was wheeled in a table with the mighty cake, which is as much a " chieftain" at an American as at a British wedding. From it the groomsmen procured their
Page 318 - Thou shalt in anywise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him;" or, " That thou bear no sin for him." Let us turn from this desolate landscape, and gladly survey a new scene which begins to open