Training school reader. [Ed.] by W.J. UnwinWilliam Jordan Unwin 1862 |
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... presents itself are adapted with such wonderful precision to the wants of the animal and vegetable kingdoms , as to make it obvious that the forces which cause them are under the control of an all - wise Creator , and subserve His ...
... presents itself are adapted with such wonderful precision to the wants of the animal and vegetable kingdoms , as to make it obvious that the forces which cause them are under the control of an all - wise Creator , and subserve His ...
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... accord- ingly . And yet , a man of ordinary age and intelligence may present himself to you , with the avowal of being thus distinguished from the crowd ; and if he would describe 16 [ SECT . I. ABSURDITY OF ATHEISM .
... accord- ingly . And yet , a man of ordinary age and intelligence may present himself to you , with the avowal of being thus distinguished from the crowd ; and if he would describe 16 [ SECT . I. ABSURDITY OF ATHEISM .
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... present England ; and Edgar the Peaceable was the most powerful of the Anglo - Saxon kings . The Danes still continued their hostilities . The suc- cessors of Edgar were feeble , the great subjects intractable , the Danes in the kingdom ...
... present England ; and Edgar the Peaceable was the most powerful of the Anglo - Saxon kings . The Danes still continued their hostilities . The suc- cessors of Edgar were feeble , the great subjects intractable , the Danes in the kingdom ...
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... present in all countries , and with a home in none ; intermixed , and yet separated ; and neither amalgamated nor lost ; but , like those mountain streams which are said to pass through lakes of another kind of water , and keep a native ...
... present in all countries , and with a home in none ; intermixed , and yet separated ; and neither amalgamated nor lost ; but , like those mountain streams which are said to pass through lakes of another kind of water , and keep a native ...
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... present moment is obviously certain . The account of its origin and early progress is contained in four parallel histories , and in a subsequent narrative attached to them , all which documents are still extant . These are found to ...
... present moment is obviously certain . The account of its origin and early progress is contained in four parallel histories , and in a subsequent narrative attached to them , all which documents are still extant . These are found to ...
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Page 20 - His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and, wave your tops, ye Pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave. Fountains, and ye that warble, as ye flow, Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise.
Page 103 - MILTON ! thou shouldst be living at this hour : England hath need of thee : she is a fen Of stagnant waters : altar, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power.
Page 146 - For swift to east and swift to west the ghastly warflame spread, High on St. Michael's Mount it shone: it shone on Beachy Head. Far on the deep the Spaniard saw, along each southern shire, % Cape beyond cape, in endless range, those twinkling points of fire.
Page 192 - Even so doth God protect us if we be Virtuous and wise: Winds blow, and Waters roll, Strength to the brave, and Power, and Deity, Yet in themselves are nothing!
Page 37 - THE shades of night were falling fast, As through an Alpine village passed A youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice, A banner with the strange device, Excelsior '. His brow was sad ; his eye beneath Flashed like a falchion from its sheath, And like a silver clarion rung The accents of that unknown tongue, Excelsior...
Page 173 - Their palaces were houses not made with hands ; their diadems crowns of glory which should never fade away. On the rich and the eloquent, on nobles and priests, they looked down with contempt; for they esteemed themselves rich in a more precious treasure, and eloquent in a more sublime language, nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand.
Page 200 - And all amid them stood the tree of life, High eminent, blooming ambrosial fruit Of vegetable gold; and next to life Our death the tree of knowledge grew fast by, Knowledge of good bought dear by knowing ill.
Page 146 - Look how the Lion of the sea lifts up his ancient crown, And underneath his deadly paw treads the gay lilies down. So stalked he when he turned to flight, on that famed Picard field, Bohemia's plume, and Genoa's bow, and Caesar's eagle shield.
Page 146 - With his white hair unbonneted, the stout old sheriff comes; Behind him march the halberdiers; before him sound the drums; His yeomen round the market cross make clear an ample space; For there behoves him to set up the standard of Her Grace.
Page 212 - As in her natural form, swelled vast to Heaven ! Awake, my soul ! not only passive praise Thou owest ! not alone these swelling tears, Mute thanks and secret ecstasy ! Awake, Voice of sweet song ! Awake, my Heart, awake ! Green vales and icy cliffs, all join my Hymn.