Instructive and Entertaining Lessons for Youth: With Rules for Reading with Propriety, Illustrated by Examples: Designed for Use in Schools and FamiliesS. Babcock and Durrie & Peck, 1835 - 252 páginas |
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Página 22
... leave things scattered , foul , and unfit for use . How we delight to see the rooms of a house , the furniture , and the utensils , all clean , and in their proper places ! 37. In conducting the affairs of a family , many vexations ...
... leave things scattered , foul , and unfit for use . How we delight to see the rooms of a house , the furniture , and the utensils , all clean , and in their proper places ! 37. In conducting the affairs of a family , many vexations ...
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... leaves , or other rubbish , it is sometimes apt to be clogged . This evil may be avoided , by fixing the colter forward , and directing the point a little backward . 55. The share signifies also a cutter , being of the same origin as ...
... leaves , or other rubbish , it is sometimes apt to be clogged . This evil may be avoided , by fixing the colter forward , and directing the point a little backward . 55. The share signifies also a cutter , being of the same origin as ...
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... leaving the alkali at the bottom of the vessel . This alkali is then refined in a crucible or furnace , by which extraneous matter is burnt or dissipated . Refined potash is called pearlash . This alkali is of great use , especially in ...
... leaving the alkali at the bottom of the vessel . This alkali is then refined in a crucible or furnace , by which extraneous matter is burnt or dissipated . Refined potash is called pearlash . This alkali is of great use , especially in ...
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... leaves into the cis- tern . This is muscovado or brown sugar ; and from this is made loaf sugar , by a process of refining , which renders it per- fectly pure and white . 88. Melasses then is the thick but liquid part of sugar . This is ...
... leaves into the cis- tern . This is muscovado or brown sugar ; and from this is made loaf sugar , by a process of refining , which renders it per- fectly pure and white . 88. Melasses then is the thick but liquid part of sugar . This is ...
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... leaves of the tea - plant , or shrub , a native of China and Japan , which is an evergreen , growing to the hight of five or six feet , or more . It is propagated by seeds , and the leaves are not fit to be plucked off , till the plant ...
... leaves of the tea - plant , or shrub , a native of China and Japan , which is an evergreen , growing to the hight of five or six feet , or more . It is propagated by seeds , and the leaves are not fit to be plucked off , till the plant ...
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Agathocles animal ANTIPAROS appeared Art thou beautiful black pepper body Calista called CHAPTER character charms child citizens cloth Colonel Washington Columbus command conduct court cubits daugh daughter death discovered duty earth effeminacy enemy evil eyes father feet fire formed Franklin hand happiness heart Hispaniola honor human hundred Indians injury intemperance isle John Cabot kind labor lady land laws length live maiz mankind manner miles mind Miss Wal moral nation nature neighbor never night nilometer NOAH WEBSTER officer parents passions peace Perrin person philosopher plants pleasure Pocahontas Powhatan religion render respect rise river Roche salt savage scene soul Spain species spirit stone stranger substance thee thing thou tion tree virtue voice Webster's Dictionary whole wood words YALE COLLEGE young
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Página 239 - No flocks that range the valley free, To slaughter I condemn, Taught by that Power that pities me, I learn to pity them : " But from the mountain's grassy side A guiltless feast I bring ; A scrip with herbs and fruits supplied, And water from the spring. " Then, Pilgrim, turn, thy cares forego ; All earth-born cares arc wrong ; Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long.
Página 88 - There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it; I have killed many; I have fully glutted my vengeance: for my country I rejoice at the beams of peace. But do not harbor a thought that mine is the joy of fear.
Página 238 - For here forlorn and lost I tread With fainting steps and slow ; Where wilds, immeasurably spread, Seem length'ning as I go." " Forbear, my son," the hermit cries, ' ' To tempt the dangerous gloom ; For yonder faithless phantom flies To lure thee to thy doom. "Here to the houseless child of want My door is open still; And though my portion is but scant, I give it with good will.
Página 43 - The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together : our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues.
Página 102 - Don't give too much for the whistle; and I saved my money.
Página 44 - Our indiscretion sometimes serves us well, When our deep plots do pall: and that should teach us, There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will.
Página 102 - I then came home, and went whistling all over the house, much pleased with my whistle, but disturbing all the family. My brothers, and sisters, and cousins, understanding the bargain...
Página 236 - Fortune in men has some small difference made, One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade ; The cobbler apron'd, and the parson gown'd, The friar hooded, and the monarch crown'd. " What differ more," you cry, " than crown and cowl ?" I'll tell you, friend ! a wise man and a fool.
Página 43 - Claudio; and I quake, Lest thou a feverous life shouldst entertain, And six or seven winters more respect Than a perpetual honour. Dar'st thou die ? The sense of death is most in apprehension ; And the poor beetle that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies.
Página 44 - Cowards die many times before their deaths ; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear ; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come, when it will come.