Little Nature Studies for Little People: For primary gradesGinn, 1895 |
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Little Nature Studies for Little People: For Primary Grades Charles Dudley Warner,Mary Elizabeth Burt,John Burroughs No preview available - 2018 |
Little Nature Studies for Little People: For Primary Grades Charles Dudley Warner,Mary Elizabeth Burt,John Burroughs No preview available - 2018 |
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afraid ALFRED TENNYSON animals apple is full Bee-bread birds blackboard BRAVE MOUSE buds caterpillars child tell CONVERSATION creature Czar doggy fear field fish flower goes to mill grade grammar hawk heart hive honey Honey-Bee horse Prince Houghton John Bull JOHN BURROUGHS keep large mouse Lesson in word-building Lessons in Language Let me fly Let the child Let the children little birdie look LOOKOUT Lovers of Nature mice Mifflin mind nest numbers nuts observation Peggy Mel Pepacton pupils rabbit red squirrel Rip Van Winkle ROBERT BROWNING salt Schools seen sentences Signs and Seasons snow song sparrow Speak gently spring storm sugar Supt sweet apples TARBELL'S LANGUAGE LESSONS Tarbell's Lessons taste teacher things THOMAS CARLYLE toad TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION tree turtle weeds wild bee lives wing winter wolf spider words write
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Page 103 - Speak gently ! it is better far To rule by love than fear ; Speak gently ! let no harsh words mar The good we might do here.
Page 105 - There are three lessons I would write — Three words as with a burning pen, In tracings of eternal light, Upon the hearts of men.
Page 99 - So here hath been dawning Another blue Day: Think wilt thou let it Slip useless away. Out of Eternity This new Day is born; Into Eternity, At night, will return. Behold it aforetime No eye ever did : So soon it forever From all eyes is hid. Here hath been dawning Another blue Day : Think wilt thou let it Slip useless away.
Page 104 - Pipe a song about a Lamb!' So I piped with merry cheer. 'Piper, pipe that song again;' So I piped: he wept to hear. 'Drop thy pipe, thy happy pipe; Sing thy songs of happy cheer:' So I sang the same again, While he wept with joy to hear. 'Piper, sit thee down and write In a book, that all may read.
Page 103 - Speak gently to the aged one, Grieve not the careworn heart ; The sands of life are nearly run — Let such in peace depart. Speak gently, kindly, to the poor, Let no harsh tone be heard ; They have enough they must endure, Without an unkind word.
Page 98 - s at the spring And day 's at the morn ; Morning 's at seven ; The hillside 's dew-pearled ; The lark 's on the wing ; The snail 's on the thorn : God 's in his heaven — All 's right with the world .
Page 7 - Cloth. 264 pages. For introduction, 70 cents. THIS sterling book was prepared under the personal supervision of the late Professor Whitney. The formal statement of principles and rules has been modified only so far as was necessary to secure greater simplicity. The inductive method of the original has been in general retained. The book may therefore be said to bear the stamp of eminent scholarship, and to be so far authoritative. Some special features of the revision are as follows : Topical Arrangement....
Page 106 - In works of labour or of skill I would be busy too: For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do.
Page xi - I already loved ; not verily For their own sakes, but for the fields and hills Where was their occupation and abode.
Page 97 - WHAT does little birdie say, In her nest at peep of day ? "Let me fly," says little birdie, "Mother, let me fly away.