The Fourth Reader, Or, Exercises in Reading and Speaking: Designed for the Higher Classes in Our Public and Private Schools |
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... Character of Poetry , 29. The Fine Arts , 30. Physical Education , 31. Advantages of Temperance , 32. Astronomy , • 34. Unwritten Music , 35. The Falls of Niagara , 37. The Sea , 38. Same Subject , concluded , 39. Wier's Cave , in ...
... Character of Poetry , 29. The Fine Arts , 30. Physical Education , 31. Advantages of Temperance , 32. Astronomy , • 34. Unwritten Music , 35. The Falls of Niagara , 37. The Sea , 38. Same Subject , concluded , 39. Wier's Cave , in ...
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... Character , 107. Our Obligations as Citizens , 108. The Just Judge , 109. Character of Mr. Brougham , 112. Self - Instruction , 113. Washington's Resignation , 114. One Century after Washington , 117. Exordium of a Speech , 118. Eulogy ...
... Character , 107. Our Obligations as Citizens , 108. The Just Judge , 109. Character of Mr. Brougham , 112. Self - Instruction , 113. Washington's Resignation , 114. One Century after Washington , 117. Exordium of a Speech , 118. Eulogy ...
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... characters , frequently used as substi . tutes , to represent several of the elements as given in the preceding table . The learner should first name the substitute , then the element it represents and the example in which it is ...
... characters , frequently used as substi . tutes , to represent several of the elements as given in the preceding table . The learner should first name the substitute , then the element it represents and the example in which it is ...
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... character of death ; Ill known to thee , LORENZO ; this thy vaunt : " Give death his due , the wretched , and the old ; Let him not violate kind nature's laws , But own man born to live as well as die . " Wretched and old thou givest ...
... character of death ; Ill known to thee , LORENZO ; this thy vaunt : " Give death his due , the wretched , and the old ; Let him not violate kind nature's laws , But own man born to live as well as die . " Wretched and old thou givest ...
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... characters indicates an inflection of voice the same in kind , yet in degree , intensity , and significant expressiveness , there is a great variety of shades . Any attempt , therefore , to give definite rules , touching the minor ...
... characters indicates an inflection of voice the same in kind , yet in degree , intensity , and significant expressiveness , there is a great variety of shades . Any attempt , therefore , to give definite rules , touching the minor ...
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Page 373 - Nor in the embrace of ocean shall exist Thy image. Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim Thy growth, to be resolved to earth again...
Page 45 - There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats ; For I am armed so strong in honesty That they pass by me as the idle wind, Which I respect not.
Page 401 - I ask gentlemen, sir, What means this martial array, if its purpose be not to force us to submission? Can gentlemen assign any other possible motive for it? Has Great Britain any enemy, in this quarter of the world, to call for all this accumulation of navies and armies?
Page 48 - He hath disgraced me, and hindered me of half a million; laughed at my losses, mocked at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated my enemies; and what's his reason .' I am a jew : Hath not a jew eyes...
Page 373 - She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty; and she glides Into his darker musings with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness ere he is aware. When thoughts Of the last bitter hour come like a blight Over thy spirit, and sad images Of the stern agony, and shroud, and pall, And breathless darkness, and the narrow house...
Page 374 - Or lose thyself in the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound Save his own dashings — yet the dead are there; And millions in those solitudes, since first The flight of years began, have laid them down In their last sleep — the dead there reign alone.
Page 385 - If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union, or to change its republican form, let them stand, undisturbed, as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated, where reason is left free to combat it.
Page 373 - The hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun, - the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between; The venerable woods - rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste, Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man.
Page 385 - And let us reflect, that, having banished from our land that religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled and suffered, we have yet gained little, if we countenance a political intolerance as despotic, as wicked, and capable of as bitter and bloody persecutions. During the throes and convulsions of the ancient world ; during the agonizing spasms of infuriated man, seeking, through blood and slaughter, his long-lost liberty...
Page 74 - Muse, that on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That shepherd...