McGuffey's First-[sixth] Eclectic Reader, Issue 5American Book Company, 1920 |
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... stood at the door now entered , and to him the King gave the petition . The second page began by hemming and clearing his throat in such an affected manner that the King jokingly asked him whether he had not slept in the public garden ...
... stood at the door now entered , and to him the King gave the petition . The second page began by hemming and clearing his throat in such an affected manner that the King jokingly asked him whether he had not slept in the public garden ...
Page 45
... stood within an inclosure , and a short distance from the road along which I was moving with wearied feet . 3. Turning aside , and passing through the ill - hung gate , I approached the dwelling . Slowly the gate swung on its wooden ...
... stood within an inclosure , and a short distance from the road along which I was moving with wearied feet . 3. Turning aside , and passing through the ill - hung gate , I approached the dwelling . Slowly the gate swung on its wooden ...
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... stood firmly disobedient . Next the whip was brought down upon him with an impatient hand ; but the pony only reared up a little . Fast and sharp the strokes were next dealt to the number of half a dozen . The man might as well have ...
... stood firmly disobedient . Next the whip was brought down upon him with an impatient hand ; but the pony only reared up a little . Fast and sharp the strokes were next dealt to the number of half a dozen . The man might as well have ...
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... stood on the grass To hear that wonderful psalm . 6. The nightingale did not care , She only sang to the skies ; Her song ascended there , And there she fixed her eyes . The people that stood below She knew but little about ; And this ...
... stood on the grass To hear that wonderful psalm . 6. The nightingale did not care , She only sang to the skies ; Her song ascended there , And there she fixed her eyes . The people that stood below She knew but little about ; And this ...
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... stood in need of comforts , which he was not ready to supply ; no sick man or woman languished for want of his assistance ; and not even a beggar , unless a known impostor , went empty - handed from the Hall . Like the village pastor ...
... stood in need of comforts , which he was not ready to supply ; no sick man or woman languished for want of his assistance ; and not even a beggar , unless a known impostor , went empty - handed from the Hall . Like the village pastor ...
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Page 247 - ... boy, That he shouts with his sister at play ! O well for the sailor lad, That he sings in his boat on the bay ! And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill ; But O for the touch of a...
Page 183 - 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 began, that live or die, survive or perish, I am for the Declaration.
Page 262 - And so these men of Indostan Disputed loud and long, Each in his own opinion Exceeding stiff and strong, Though each was partly in the right, And all were in the wrong!
Page 152 - Thou coveredst it with the deep As with a garment : The waters stood above the mountains. At Thy rebuke They fled ; At the voice of Thy thunder They hasted away.
Page 265 - Oft, in the stilly night, Ere Slumber's chain has bound me, Fond Memory brings the light Of other days around me; The smiles, the tears, • Of boyhood's years, The words of love then spoken ; The eyes that shone, Now dimm'd and gone, The cheerful hearts now broken! Thus, in the stilly night, Ere Slumber's chain hath bound me, Sad Memory brings the light Of other days around me.
Page 138 - The village smithy stands ; The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands ; And the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands. His hair is crisp, and black, and long, His face is like the tan ; His brow is wet with honest sweat, He earns whate'er he can, And looks the whole world in the face, For he owes not any man.
Page 80 - Nay, not so," Replied the Angel. Abou spoke more low, But cheerly still; and said, "I pray thee, then, Write me as one that loves his fellow-men." The angel wrote, and vanished. The next night It came again with a great wakening light, And showed the names whom love of God had blessed, And lo! Ben Adhem's name led all the rest.
Page 102 - Where are the flowers, the fair young flowers, that lately sprang and stood In brighter light, and softer airs, a beauteous sisterhood? Alas! they all are in their graves, the gentle race of flowers Are lying in their lowly beds, with the fair and good of ours. The rain is falling where they lie, but the cold November rain Calls not from out the gloomy earth the lovely ones again.
Page 305 - Again he felt and fumbled at the pig. It did not burn him so much now ; still, he licked his fingers from a sort of habit. The truth at length broke into his slow understanding that it was the pig that smelt so, and the pig that tasted so delicious...
Page 73 - When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; What is man, that thou art mindful of him; and the son of man, that thou visitest him? For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honor. Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet...