The advanced prose and poetical reader, by A.W. BuchanAlexander Winton Buchan 1859 |
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... miles distant , to get some corn ground . The husband , the eldest son , and two little girls , named Barbara and Regina , were at home . The father and his son were instantly killed by the savages , but they carried the two little ...
... miles distant , to get some corn ground . The husband , the eldest son , and two little girls , named Barbara and Regina , were at home . The father and his son were instantly killed by the savages , but they carried the two little ...
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... miles from the village of Keith in Banffshire , of parents in the humblest condition of life ; his father being merely a day - labourer , but honest and religious . It was his father's practice to teach his children to read and write ...
... miles from the village of Keith in Banffshire , of parents in the humblest condition of life ; his father being merely a day - labourer , but honest and religious . It was his father's practice to teach his children to read and write ...
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... miles below Timbucto , he was attacked by the Moors , and after a vain struggle against superior numbers , Park and his companions leaped into the river , attempting to escape by swimming , and were drowned . ANECDOTE - AFRICAN ...
... miles below Timbucto , he was attacked by the Moors , and after a vain struggle against superior numbers , Park and his companions leaped into the river , attempting to escape by swimming , and were drowned . ANECDOTE - AFRICAN ...
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... miles , and on a part of Acra , levelled by human in- dustry , and which was distinguished by the name of Moriah , stood the temple , in itself an exceedingly strong fortress . Titus commenced the siege by investing the city with a wall ...
... miles , and on a part of Acra , levelled by human in- dustry , and which was distinguished by the name of Moriah , stood the temple , in itself an exceedingly strong fortress . Titus commenced the siege by investing the city with a wall ...
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... miles , in breadth never less than about one mile and a half . Two marshes bound the extremities of the plain : the southern is not very large , and is almost dry at the conclusion of the great heats ; but the northern , which generally ...
... miles , in breadth never less than about one mile and a half . Two marshes bound the extremities of the plain : the southern is not very large , and is almost dry at the conclusion of the great heats ; but the northern , which generally ...
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Página 235 - There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast — The desert and illimitable air — Lone wandering, but not lost. All day thy wings have fanned, At' that far height, the cold, thin atmosphere, Yet stoop not, weary, to the welcome land, Though the dark night is near.
Página 68 - This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it. TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting. PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.
Página 267 - Not as a child shall we again behold her ; For when with raptures wild In our embraces we again enfold her, She will not be a child ; But a fair maiden, in her Father's mansion, Clothed with celestial grace ; And beautiful with all the soul's expansion Shall we behold her face. And though at times impetuous with emotion And anguish long suppressed, The swelling heart heaves moaning like the ocean, That cannot be at rest, — We will be patient, and assuage the feeling We may not wholly stay ; By...
Página 14 - And, behold, there was a great earthquake; for the angel of the Lord descended from Heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it.
Página 225 - The names of those who love the Lord." "And is mine one?" said Abou. "Nay, not so,
Página 272 - Who sank thy sunless pillars deep in earth? Who filled thy countenance with rosy light? Who made thee parent of perpetual streams?
Página 272 - Who gave you your invulnerable life, Your strength, your speed, your fury, and your joy, Unceasing thunder and eternal foam? And who commanded (and the silence came), Here let the billows stiffen, and have rest?
Página 299 - She should have died hereafter; There would have been a time for such a word. To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death.
Página 266 - Let us be patient ! These severe afflictions Not from the ground arise, But oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise. We see but dimly through the mists and vapors Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers May be heaven's distant lamps.
Página 303 - So went to bed : where eagerly his sickness Pursued him still ; and, three nights after this, About the hour of eight, (which he himself Foretold should be his last, ) full of repentance, Continual meditations, tears, and sorrows, He gave his honours to the world again, His blessed part to heaven, and slept in peace.