The Elson Readers..: Book 5-8 ...Scott, Foresman and Company, 1921 |
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... eyes are opened to the beauty of the world in which we live . There is & famous painting called " The Song of the Lark . " A peasant girl is on her way to work in the fields , sickle in hand , in early morning . She has stopped to ...
... eyes are opened to the beauty of the world in which we live . There is & famous painting called " The Song of the Lark . " A peasant girl is on her way to work in the fields , sickle in hand , in early morning . She has stopped to ...
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... eyes to things that the fairy - folk know right . well , but which are forbidden to mortal eye and ear until the spell has worked its will . These , then , are the three joys of reading : First , to be able to travel at will in any ...
... eyes to things that the fairy - folk know right . well , but which are forbidden to mortal eye and ear until the spell has worked its will . These , then , are the three joys of reading : First , to be able to travel at will in any ...
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... eyes to the beauty of the enchanted world in which we live . All about you , in the manifold aspects of Nature , lies a world of wonder as interesting as that fairy world which so delighted you when mother told you stories or when you ...
... eyes to the beauty of the enchanted world in which we live . All about you , in the manifold aspects of Nature , lies a world of wonder as interesting as that fairy world which so delighted you when mother told you stories or when you ...
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... eyes are opened to what they have for us . A man named Gilbert White once lived in the English village of Selborne . Nothing ever hap pened in the village , most people thought , but Gilbert White won fame because through many years he ...
... eyes are opened to what they have for us . A man named Gilbert White once lived in the English village of Selborne . Nothing ever hap pened in the village , most people thought , but Gilbert White won fame because through many years he ...
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... eye alone , no matter how keen , can never reveal . In " The Three Joys of Reading , " page 14 , you saw how the poet Burns pictured the kinship between his own life and the fate of a common daisy that he had plowed up by chance one day ...
... eye alone , no matter how keen , can never reveal . In " The Three Joys of Reading , " page 14 , you saw how the poet Burns pictured the kinship between his own life and the fate of a common daisy that he had plowed up by chance one day ...
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Page 473 - For you bouquets and ribbon'd wreaths— for you the shores a-crowding, For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning; Here Captain! dear father! This arm beneath your head! It is some dream that on the deck, You've fallen cold and dead.
Page 276 - There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.
Page 274 - Mr. President, it is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren, till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty ? Are we disposed to be of the number of those, who, having eyes, see not, and having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation?
Page 276 - Sir, we are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. Three millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us.
Page 275 - They tell us, sir, that we are weak, — unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week — or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed; and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house?
Page 275 - No, Sir, she has none. They are meant for us, they can be meant for no other. They are sent over to bind and rivet upon us those chains which the British ministry have been so long forging. And what have we to oppose to them? Shall we try argument ? Sir, we have been trying that for the last ten years.
Page 256 - The spirits of your fathers Shall start from every wave ; For the deck it was their field of fame, And ocean was their grave ; Where Blake and mighty Nelson fell, Your manly hearts shall glow, As ye sweep through the deep While the stormy winds do blow ; While the battle rages loud and long, And the stormy winds do blow.
Page 297 - Not as the conqueror comes, They, the true-hearted, came; Not with the roll of the stirring drums, And the trumpet that sings of fame; Not as the flying come, In silence and in fear; They shook the depths of the desert gloom With their hymns of lofty cheer.
Page 275 - In vain, after these things, may we indulge the fond hope of peace and reconciliation. There is no longer any room for hope. If we wish to be free; if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending...
Page 274 - I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided; and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past And judging by the past, I wish to know what there has been in the conduct of the British ministry for the last ten years, to justify those hopes with which gentlemen have been pleased to solace themselves and the house? Is it that insidious smile with which our petition has been lately received?