The National Fourth Reader: Containing a Course of Instruction in Elocution; Exercises in Reading and Declamation ...A.S. Barnes & Burr, 1861 - 432 pages |
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... caused by your carelessness . These misfortunes are the same to the poor , the ignorant , and the weak , as to the rich , the wise , and the powerful . Require pupils to tell which of the preceding rules is illustrated by each of the ...
... caused by your carelessness . These misfortunes are the same to the poor , the ignorant , and the weak , as to the rich , the wise , and the powerful . Require pupils to tell which of the preceding rules is illustrated by each of the ...
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... cause of it ; but I found the reason in her cottage ; her boy had been spitting blood . 5. I have often envied him these endearments ; for I was away from a par'ent who humored me , even when I was stubborn and unkind . My poor mother ...
... cause of it ; but I found the reason in her cottage ; her boy had been spitting blood . 5. I have often envied him these endearments ; for I was away from a par'ent who humored me , even when I was stubborn and unkind . My poor mother ...
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... causes remembrance . - 3 In èx ' o ra ble , that can not be moved by prayers or entreaties . - Rel ' ic , that which re- mains , or is left after a loss ; something kept in remembrance .-- * Re- lent ' less , cruel ; having no pity . Mo ...
... causes remembrance . - 3 In èx ' o ra ble , that can not be moved by prayers or entreaties . - Rel ' ic , that which re- mains , or is left after a loss ; something kept in remembrance .-- * Re- lent ' less , cruel ; having no pity . Mo ...
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... causing me to turn , I beheld one of the passengers struck down with an ax , as he was approaching to join me . The ruffians , with horrid yells , rushed forward to secure a second victim ; but , though nearly overpowered by my ...
... causing me to turn , I beheld one of the passengers struck down with an ax , as he was approaching to join me . The ruffians , with horrid yells , rushed forward to secure a second victim ; but , though nearly overpowered by my ...
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... causing sickness of the stomach .-- Expedition ( eks pe dish ' un ) , a march or voyage ; an enterprise .-- 3 Por tent ' ous ly , showing that something is about to happen . LAZY PEOPLE . 115 he were emulous ' of the 114 NATIONAL FOURTH ...
... causing sickness of the stomach .-- Expedition ( eks pe dish ' un ) , a march or voyage ; an enterprise .-- 3 Por tent ' ous ly , showing that something is about to happen . LAZY PEOPLE . 115 he were emulous ' of the 114 NATIONAL FOURTH ...
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Page 350 - I saw a smith stand with his hammer, thus, The whilst his iron did on the anvil cool, With open mouth swallowing a tailor's news, Who, with his shears and measure in his hand, Standing on slippers, (which his nimble haste Had falsely thrust upon contrary feet...
Page 411 - T' make that place uz strong uz the rest." So the Deacon inquired of the village folk Where he could find the strongest oak, That couldn't be split nor bent nor broke,— That was for spokes and floor and sills; He sent for lancewood to make the thills; The crossbars were ash, from the straightest trees; The panels of white-wood, that cuts like cheese, But lasts like iron for things like these; The hubs of logs from the "Settler's ellum...
Page 26 - Who is here so base that would be a bondman? If any, speak; for him have I offended. Who is here so rude that would not be a Roman?
Page 426 - Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light: The year is dying in the night; Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.
Page 425 - Came thro' the jaws of Death Back from the mouth of Hell, All that was left of them, Left of six hundred.
Page 342 - The secret which the murderer possesses soon comes to possess him, and, like the evil spirits of which we read, it overcomes him, and leads him whithersoever it will. He feels it beating at his heart, rising to his throat, and demanding disclosure. 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...
Page 341 - Ah, gentlemen ! that was a dreadful mistake. Such a secret can be safe nowhere. The whole creation of God has neither nook nor corner where the guilty can bestow it, and say it is safe.
Page 66 - But now his nose is thin, And it rests upon his chin Like a staff, And a crook is in his back, And a melancholy crack In his laugh. I know it is a sin For me to sit and grin At him here; But the old three-cornered hat, And the breeches, and all that, Are so queer!
Page 427 - Ring out old shapes of foul disease; Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace. Ring in the valiant man and free, The larger heart, the kindlier hand; Ring out the darkness of the land, Ring in the Christ that is to be.
Page 425 - Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon in front of them Volley'd and thunder'd; Storm'd at with shot and shell, Boldly they rode and well, Into the jaws of Death, Into the mouth of hell Rode the six hundred. Flash'd all their sabres bare, Flash'd as they turn'd in air Sabring the gunners there, Charging an army, while All the world wonder'd. Plunged in the battery-smoke Right thro' the line they broke; Cossack and Russian Reel'd from the sabre-stroke Shatter'd and sunder'd.