The First-class Reader: A Selection for Exercises in Reading : from Standard British and American Authors, in Prose and Verse : for the Use of Schools in the United States |
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... give every les- son a degree of unity and completeness ; so that it might be rather a whole , than a fragment . Mere detached sen- tences , the understanding of which presupposes an acquaint- ance with their preceding and subsequent ...
... give every les- son a degree of unity and completeness ; so that it might be rather a whole , than a fragment . Mere detached sen- tences , the understanding of which presupposes an acquaint- ance with their preceding and subsequent ...
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... give the pupil , by means of a minute analysis of each passage , a general command of his own language . It is of great importance to the proper understanding of the method , that all these objects should be kept distinctly in view ...
... give the pupil , by means of a minute analysis of each passage , a general command of his own language . It is of great importance to the proper understanding of the method , that all these objects should be kept distinctly in view ...
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... Give some examples . What is expressed by the word ' physi- cal ? ' To what class of words do most of those which end in al belong ? When the termination al is added to a noun , into what is it changed ? Define Creator . ' From what ...
... Give some examples . What is expressed by the word ' physi- cal ? ' To what class of words do most of those which end in al belong ? When the termination al is added to a noun , into what is it changed ? Define Creator . ' From what ...
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... Give the derivatives of try . Define ' wings . Give the derivatives of it . What do you con- sider to be comprehended in the term created being ? " Is it limited in the text to living beings ? Is the term , prop- erly speaking , more ...
... Give the derivatives of try . Define ' wings . Give the derivatives of it . What do you con- sider to be comprehended in the term created being ? " Is it limited in the text to living beings ? Is the term , prop- erly speaking , more ...
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... give that hospitality which they had not received , and to humble the persons who had thought of them with contempt , by showing how little they deserved it . Having been driven from the low countries of Scotland by invasion , they from ...
... give that hospitality which they had not received , and to humble the persons who had thought of them with contempt , by showing how little they deserved it . Having been driven from the low countries of Scotland by invasion , they from ...
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Page 48 - The quality of mercy is not strained; It droppeth, as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath ; it is twice blessed ; It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes...
Page 49 - How beautiful is night ! A dewy freshness fills the silent air, No mist obscures, nor cloud, nor speck, nor stain, Breaks the serene of heaven : In full-orbed glory yonder moon divine Rolls through the dark blue depths.
Page 28 - Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
Page 223 - I HAD a dream, which was not all a dream. The bright sun was extinguished, and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space, Rayless, and pathless, and the icy earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air...
Page 40 - There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore. There is society where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not man the less, but nature more...
Page 97 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, This bird of dawning singeth all night long : And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad ; The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm ; So hallowed and so gracious is the time.
Page 156 - Take thy banner! May it wave Proudly o'er the good and brave; When the battle's distant wail Breaks the sabbath of our vale, When the clarion's music thrills To the hearts of these lone hills, When the spear in conflict shakes, And the strong lance shivering breaks. "Take thy banner! and, beneath The battle-cloud's encircling wreath, Guard it!
Page 24 - In rural occupation there is nothing mean and debasing. It leads a man forth among scenes of natural grandeur and beauty ; it leaves him to the workings of his own mind, operated upon by the purest and most elevating of external influences. Such a man may be simple and rough, but he cannot be vulgar.
Page 158 - To a poet nothing can be useless. Whatever is beautiful, and whatever is dreadful, must be familiar to his imagination: he must be conversant with all that is awfully vast or elegantly little.
Page 154 - Oh, few and weak their numbers were — A handful of brave men ; But to their God they gave their prayer, And rushed to battle then.