The Elson Readers..: Book 5-8 ...Scott, Foresman and Company, 1921 |
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... once a boy in a frontier cabin who was eager to know all that could be learned about life . His days were long and hard , but he was dreaming of things to come . At night by the light of the pine logs blazing in the fireplace , this boy ...
... once a boy in a frontier cabin who was eager to know all that could be learned about life . His days were long and hard , but he was dreaming of things to come . At night by the light of the pine logs blazing in the fireplace , this boy ...
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... once more our Aladdin's lamp brings us into scenes of enchantment , multiplies our lives , opens our 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 ...
... once more our Aladdin's lamp brings us into scenes of enchantment , multiplies our lives , opens our 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 ...
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... once you have learned their secrets . And it is through the writings of keen observers the naturalists - that you will gain this power . Second , other writers , chiefly the poets , will still further enrich your appreciation of Nature ...
... once you have learned their secrets . And it is through the writings of keen observers the naturalists - that you will gain this power . Second , other writers , chiefly the poets , will still further enrich your appreciation of Nature ...
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... once determined to try the 80 speed of our horses , and we set out at a trot . The game appeared about three miles distant . As we advanced , the band of buffalo were transformed into certain clumps of tall bushes , dotting the prairie ...
... once determined to try the 80 speed of our horses , and we set out at a trot . The game appeared about three miles distant . As we advanced , the band of buffalo were transformed into certain clumps of tall bushes , dotting the prairie ...
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... could not have checked at once the furious course of Pontiac . A stronger and hardier 35 brute never trod the prairie ; but the novel sight of the buffalo filled him with terror , and when at full speed THE BUFFALO 27.
... could not have checked at once the furious course of Pontiac . A stronger and hardier 35 brute never trod the prairie ; but the novel sight of the buffalo filled him with terror , and when at full speed THE BUFFALO 27.
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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?