The Eclectic Fourth Reader: Containing Elegant Extracts in Prose and Poetry, from the Best American and English Writers : with Copious Rules for Reading and Directions ... |
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... hours , a harpooner , who had rowed out of sight of the ship , struck one of the whales . This was about four o'clock ... hour and a half , with the veloc- ity of from one and a half to two knots . And then , though the whale must have ...
... hours , a harpooner , who had rowed out of sight of the ship , struck one of the whales . This was about four o'clock ... hour and a half , with the veloc- ity of from one and a half to two knots . And then , though the whale must have ...
Page 208
... hour coming , when one whisper of an ap- proving mind , one smile of an approving God , will be accounted of more value than the wealth of a thousand worlds like this . In that hour , my young friends , nothing will sustain you but the ...
... hour coming , when one whisper of an ap- proving mind , one smile of an approving God , will be accounted of more value than the wealth of a thousand worlds like this . In that hour , my young friends , nothing will sustain you but the ...
Page 259
... hour is brought to desolation this so great wealth ! " And every ship - master , and every super - cargo , 65. And mariners , and all who labor on the sea , Stood afar off , and cried aloud , When they saw the smoke of her burning ...
... hour is brought to desolation this so great wealth ! " And every ship - master , and every super - cargo , 65. And mariners , and all who labor on the sea , Stood afar off , and cried aloud , When they saw the smoke of her burning ...
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DIRECTIONS FOR READING | 13 |
Falling Inflection | 20 |
The Town Pump | 23 |
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