Glimpses of the WorldLarkin Dunton Silver, Burdett, 1889 - 159 páginas |
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Africa ANTARCTIC OCEAN ARCTIC OCEAN asked Fred asked his uncle Atlantic Ocean AUSTRALIA banks boat boatman boys bright called camels Cape Cape Hatteras Cape Sable coast desert division of water Earth east EDITED BY LARKIN five oceans flow Fred and Mary Geography Gulf of Mexico hill INDIAN OCEAN island joining two larger journey LAKE MEMPHREMAGOG lakes largest division LESSON live looked Martha's Vineyard mer'i Mississippi Mount Etna Mount Everest names negro never North America orange Pacific Ocean passage of water peaks peninsula plain praises sing race replied rill river rocks Rocky Mountains round the world sand shore side sister snow SOUTH steamer strait stream surrounded by land tain tell things thou thousand miles town travellers trees Uncle William United vessels volcano voyage water-shed waves week wild wonderful ball
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Página 27 - Ah! you are so great, and I am so small, I tremble to think of you, World, at all; And yet, when I said my prayers to-day, A whisper inside me seemed to say, "You are more than the Earth, though you are such a dot: You can love and think, and the Earth cannot!
Página 27 - You friendly Earth, how far do you go, With the wheat-fields that nod and the rivers that flow, With cities and gardens, and cliffs and isles, And people upon you for thousands of miles?
Página 36 - All things bright and beautiful, All creatures great and small, All things wise and wonderful. The Lord God made them all. Each little flower that opens, Each little bird that sings, He made their glowing colors, He made their tiny wings.
Página 36 - He gave us eyes to see them, and lips that we might tell how great is God almighty, who has made all things well...
Página 108 - O'ercurtained by wild flowers. " One morn I ran away, A madcap, noisy rill ! And many a prank that day I played adown the hill. " And then 'mid meadowy banks I flirted with the flowers, That stooped with glowing lips, To woo me to their bowers. " But these bright scenes are o'er, And darkly flows my wave ; I hear the ocean's roar, And there must be my grave.
Página 26 - The wonderful air is over me, And the wonderful wind is shaking the tree; It walks on the water, and whirls the mills, And talks to itself on the tops of the hills.
Página 6 - FOLKS' LIBRARY will be prepared by some one of our ablest writers for young people, and all will be carefully edited by Larkin Dunton, LL.D., Head Master of the Boston Normal School. The publishers intend to make this LIBRARY at once attractive and instructive; they therefore commend these volumes, with confidence, to teachers, parents, and all others who are charged with the duty of directing the education of the young. SILVER, BURDETT & CO. PREFACE.
Página 6 - The matter for the various volumes will be so carefully selected and so judiciously graded, that the various volumes will be adapted to the needs and capacities of all for whom they are designed; while their literary merit, it is hoped, will be sufficient to make them deserve a place upon the shelves of any well-selected collection of juvenile works.
Página 158 - Apricots, and gillyflowers. 8. August brings the sheaves of corn ; Then the harvest home is borne. 9. Warm September brings the fruit ; Sportsmen then begin to shoot. 10. Brown October brings the pheasant ; Then to gather nuts is pleasant.