The Fourth Reader, Or, Exercises in Reading and Speaking: Designed for the Higher Classes in Our Public and Private Schools |
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... honor could his name have derived from being mingled , in dusty companionship with the epitaphs , and escutcheons , and venal eulogiums of a titled multitude ? What would a crowded corner in Westminster Abbey have been , compared with ...
... honor could his name have derived from being mingled , in dusty companionship with the epitaphs , and escutcheons , and venal eulogiums of a titled multitude ? What would a crowded corner in Westminster Abbey have been , compared with ...
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... honor , is the people's choice ; the laws we reverence , are our brave fathers ' legacy ; the faith we follow , teaches us to live in bonds of charity with all mankind , and die with the hope of bliss beyond the grave . Tell your ...
... honor , is the people's choice ; the laws we reverence , are our brave fathers ' legacy ; the faith we follow , teaches us to live in bonds of charity with all mankind , and die with the hope of bliss beyond the grave . Tell your ...
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... honors , bloomed with every bliss , Set up in ostentation , made the gaze , The gaudy center , of the public eye ; When fortune thus has tossed her child in air , Snatched from the covert of an humble state , How often have I seen him ...
... honors , bloomed with every bliss , Set up in ostentation , made the gaze , The gaudy center , of the public eye ; When fortune thus has tossed her child in air , Snatched from the covert of an humble state , How often have I seen him ...
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... the same society ? Knowledge . What raised Franklin from the hunble station of a printer's boy to the first honors of the country ? Knowl edge . What took Sherman from his shoemaker's bench , TOWN'S FOURTH READER . 43 Siege of Calais,
... the same society ? Knowledge . What raised Franklin from the hunble station of a printer's boy to the first honors of the country ? Knowl edge . What took Sherman from his shoemaker's bench , TOWN'S FOURTH READER . 43 Siege of Calais,
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... honor have I wantonly assailed ? Whose rights , though of the weakest and poorest , have I trenched upon ? I dwell where I would ever dwell , in the hearts of my people . Exercise 9. To Illustrate Rule 9 , - page 34 . Heār me , rash mān ...
... honor have I wantonly assailed ? Whose rights , though of the weakest and poorest , have I trenched upon ? I dwell where I would ever dwell , in the hearts of my people . Exercise 9. To Illustrate Rule 9 , - page 34 . Heār me , rash mān ...
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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...