The United States Reader: Containing a Variety of Exercises in Reading, Punctuation, Figures of Speech, Spelling, &c. : for the Use of Schools |
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... once a day , without having a question asked him on the meaning of words , & c . Most of our Reading Books are only a selection of pieces from the most finished authors of the English Lan- guage , without a single question of any kind ...
... once a day , without having a question asked him on the meaning of words , & c . Most of our Reading Books are only a selection of pieces from the most finished authors of the English Lan- guage , without a single question of any kind ...
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... once had met as foes , Though now no mark of strife is seen , And there the bright grass grows . 3. Three merry boys were at their play , Not far from the road - side , And their free utterance of joy Rang loudly far and wide ; For well ...
... once had met as foes , Though now no mark of strife is seen , And there the bright grass grows . 3. Three merry boys were at their play , Not far from the road - side , And their free utterance of joy Rang loudly far and wide ; For well ...
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... we were in com- parison with such a force , and young as I was for such en- counters , the moment I saw what the danger was , I felt at once relieved ; and nothing doubting that an engagement must UNITED STATES READER . 71.
... we were in com- parison with such a force , and young as I was for such en- counters , the moment I saw what the danger was , I felt at once relieved ; and nothing doubting that an engagement must UNITED STATES READER . 71.
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... once relieved ; and nothing doubting that an engagement must take place , I longed for it to begin . 8. " In a few moments we heard the sound of irregular firing , and saw our countrymen dispersing in all directions . Then our senior ...
... once relieved ; and nothing doubting that an engagement must take place , I longed for it to begin . 8. " In a few moments we heard the sound of irregular firing , and saw our countrymen dispersing in all directions . Then our senior ...
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... once again . They came upon us with double fury . While engaged in personal conflict with a British officer , the enemy's line had passed me in pursuit of the flying Americans , and thus cut off my retreat : one of their soldiers fired ...
... once again . They came upon us with double fury . While engaged in personal conflict with a British officer , the enemy's line had passed me in pursuit of the flying Americans , and thus cut off my retreat : one of their soldiers fired ...
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Page 284 - And now go to; I will tell you What I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; And break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down...
Page 280 - The voice at midnight came, He started up to hear ; A mortal arrow pierced his frame — He fell, but felt no fear.
Page 124 - When, playing with thy vesture's tissued flowers, 75 The violet, the pink, and jessamine, I pricked them into paper with a pin, (And thou wast happier than myself the while, Wouldst softly speak, and stroke my head and smile), Could those few pleasant days again appear, Might one wish bring them, would I wish them here I would not trust my heart — the dear delight Seems so to be desired, perhaps I might.
Page 122 - Hovered thy spirit o'er thy sorrowing son, Wretch even then, life's journey just begun ? Perhaps thou gavest me, though unfelt, a kiss ; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss ; Ah, that maternal smile, it answers yes...
Page 122 - With me but roughly since I heard thee last. Those lips are thine — thy own sweet smile I see, The same that oft in childhood solaced me; Voice only fails, else how distinct they say, ' Grieve not, my child, chase all thy fears away!
Page 18 - Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars...
Page 172 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale, or piny mountain, Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring. Or chasms and wat'ry depths ; all these have vanished They live no longer in the faith of reason...
Page 63 - Come to the bridal chamber, Death ! Come to the mother when she feels For the first time her first-born's breath ! Come when the blessed seals Which close the pestilence are broke, And crowded cities wail its stroke...
Page 288 - Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward : for all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.
Page 123 - All this still legible in memory's page, And still to be so to my latest age...