The Fourth Reader, Or Exercises in Reading and Speaking Designed for the Higher Classes in Our Public and Private SchoolsSanborn & Carter, 1851 - 408 páginas |
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... UNIVERSITY LIBRARY Entered according to Act of Congress , in the year 1847 , by SALEM TOWN , In the Clerk's Umce of the District Court of the District of Maine . PREFACE . IMPROVEMENT is characteristic of the present age ; KD 38832.
... UNIVERSITY LIBRARY Entered according to Act of Congress , in the year 1847 , by SALEM TOWN , In the Clerk's Umce of the District Court of the District of Maine . PREFACE . IMPROVEMENT is characteristic of the present age ; KD 38832.
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... present title , except that he desired to make such additions and improvements as would be calculated to render it more permanently useful . That philosophy which teaches us to follow in the beaten path , because it is most familiar ...
... present title , except that he desired to make such additions and improvements as would be calculated to render it more permanently useful . That philosophy which teaches us to follow in the beaten path , because it is most familiar ...
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... present wit ; and if he read little , he ought to have much cunning , that he may seem to know what he does not . His- tory makes men wise ; poetry makes them witty ; mathe- matics , subtle ; natural philosophy , deep ; moral philosophy ...
... present wit ; and if he read little , he ought to have much cunning , that he may seem to know what he does not . His- tory makes men wise ; poetry makes them witty ; mathe- matics , subtle ; natural philosophy , deep ; moral philosophy ...
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... present , upon my nearer and remoter subjects , and ask , nor Whom have I wronged ? What province fear the answer . have I oppressed ? What city pillaged ? What region drained with taxes ? Whose life have I unjustly taken , or estates ...
... present , upon my nearer and remoter subjects , and ask , nor Whom have I wronged ? What province fear the answer . have I oppressed ? What city pillaged ? What region drained with taxes ? Whose life have I unjustly taken , or estates ...
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... present these changes to the eye , the following char- acters will be used . ( h ) high . ( hl ) high and loud . ( 1 ) low . ( 11 ) low and loud . ( i ) increase . ( s ) slow . ( q ) quick . ( p ) plaintive . * These marks are in some ...
... present these changes to the eye , the following char- acters will be used . ( h ) high . ( hl ) high and loud . ( 1 ) low . ( 11 ) low and loud . ( i ) increase . ( s ) slow . ( q ) quick . ( p ) plaintive . * These marks are in some ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Anapestic ancholy ancient arms Aurelian beautiful behold beneath bosom brave bright Calais clouds dark dead death deep detona earth EXAMPLES fall father feel feet fire flowers forest friends gaze genius glory Goth grave Hafed hand happy heard heart heaven Herculaneum honor hour human hundred inflection Julius Cæsar Kilauea king labor land LESSON light live look ment mighty mind mountains nation nature never night o'er ocean passed pause Pliny the Younger Pompeii province of Spain rising rocks roll Rolla Roman Rome round Rule scene Scotland seemed shine shore silence smile solemn soul sound spirit splendor stalactites stars storm stream sublime syllables tears tempest temple thee things thou thought thousand thunder tion trees tremble Trochaic Trochee Ursa Major vast verse virtue voice waters waves wild wind wonders wooded crater words
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Página 373 - Nor in the embrace of ocean shall exist Thy image. Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim Thy growth, to be resolved to earth again...
Página 45 - There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats ; For I am armed so strong in honesty That they pass by me as the idle wind, Which I respect not.
Página 374 - All that tread The globe are but a handful to the tribes That slumber in its bosom.
Página 384 - All too will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal laws must protect, and to violate which would be oppression.
Página 24 - Some Books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; That is, some Books are to be read only in parts; others to be read but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. Some Books also may be read by deputy...
Página 373 - The hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun, - the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between; The venerable woods - rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste, Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man.
Página 40 - The style of Dryden is capricious and varied ; that of Pope is cautious and uniform. Dryden obeys the motions of his own mind ; Pope constrains his mind to his own rules of composition. Dryden is sometimes vehement and rapid; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle.
Página 344 - He thinks the whole world sees it in his face, reads it in his eyes, and almost hears its workings in the very silence of his thoughts. It has become his master. It betrays his discretion, it breaks down his courage, it conquers his prudence. When suspicions from without begin to embarrass him, and the net of circumstance to entangle him, the fatal secret struggles with still greater violence to burst forth.
Página 336 - Called upon by your country to defend its invaded rights, you accepted the sacred charge, before it had formed alliances, and whilst it was without funds or a government to support you. You have conducted the great military contest with wisdom and fortitude, invariably regarding the rights of the civil power through all disasters and changes.
Página 73 - And the widows of Ashur are loud in their wail, And the idols are broke in the temple of Baal ; And the might of the Gentile, unsmote by the sword, Hath melted like snow in the glance of the Lord...