A Sequel to the Gradual ReaderDaniel Burgess & Company, 1852 - 240 páginas |
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... mother , when I heard that thou wast dead . EMPHASIS . Emphasis is giving peculiar utterance to some word or phrase , to develop more fully the sentiment of the author . When both parts of an antithesis are expressed , the pupil will ...
... mother , when I heard that thou wast dead . EMPHASIS . Emphasis is giving peculiar utterance to some word or phrase , to develop more fully the sentiment of the author . When both parts of an antithesis are expressed , the pupil will ...
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... mother or sister to attend to , which constantly interrupted her ; and under such circumstances , you could hardly wonder , if the garment should come some soiled from under her hands . 13. " All this may be the case ; and if so , you ...
... mother or sister to attend to , which constantly interrupted her ; and under such circumstances , you could hardly wonder , if the garment should come some soiled from under her hands . 13. " All this may be the case ; and if so , you ...
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... mother . " So am I , but I must go ; and therefore there is no use in objecting to it . " 8. " So you find my father even is obedient to this word must ! " said George to his brother , when their father had left the room . " Who says ...
... mother . " So am I , but I must go ; and therefore there is no use in objecting to it . " 8. " So you find my father even is obedient to this word must ! " said George to his brother , when their father had left the room . " Who says ...
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... mother , " that Henry will soon find that necessary things are by no means necessarily unpleasant , and that he will always obey the call of duty at once and cheerfully . " MORAL AND SELECT SENTENCES . 1. Ir is not by starts of ...
... mother , " that Henry will soon find that necessary things are by no means necessarily unpleasant , and that he will always obey the call of duty at once and cheerfully . " MORAL AND SELECT SENTENCES . 1. Ir is not by starts of ...
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... Mother , " said Jonathan , " I am tired of dig- ging and scratching among the stumps and rocks , for a living on this old farm . If I don't find some easier way of getting a living , I'm no Yankee , that is all . " 5. " Why , Jonathan ...
... Mother , " said Jonathan , " I am tired of dig- ging and scratching among the stumps and rocks , for a living on this old farm . If I don't find some easier way of getting a living , I'm no Yankee , that is all . " 5. " Why , Jonathan ...
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Página 156 - Toilsome and indigent) she renders much ; Just knows, and knows no more, her bible true, A truth the brilliant Frenchman never knew, And in that charter reads, with sparkling eyes, Her title to a treasure in the skies.
Página 164 - The quality of mercy is not strained; It droppeth, as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath ; it is twice blessed ; It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes...
Página 230 - I cry aloud to all and sundry in my plainest accents and at the very tiptop of my voice. Here it is, gentlemen ! Here is the good liquor...
Página 234 - The husband and wife, drinking deep of peaceful joy — a calm bliss of temperate affections shall pass hand in hand through life and lie down not reluctantly at its protracted close. To them the past will be no turmoil of mad dreams, nor the future an eternity of such moments as follow the delirium of the drunkard. Their dead faces shall express what their spirits were and are to be by a lingering smile of memory and hope.
Página 71 - ... it does not give the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from falling into any depths of sorrow Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.
Página 198 - The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere. Heaped in the hollows of the grove, the autumn leaves lie dead ; They rustle to the eddying gust, and to the rabbit's tread.
Página 229 - town treasurer" is rightfully mine, as guardian of the best treasure that the town has. The overseers of the poor ought to make me their chairman, since I provide bountifully for the pauper, without expense to him that pays taxes.
Página 33 - Order is Heaven's first law; and this confest, Some are, and must be, greater than the rest, More rich, more wise; but who infers from hence That such are happier, shocks all common sense.
Página 72 - It is pleasant to be virtuous and good ; because that is to excel many others : it is pleasant to grow better; because that is to excel ourselves: it is pleasant to command our appetites and passions, and to keep them in due order, within the bounds of reason and religion ; because this is empire : nay, it is pleasant even to mortify and subdue our lusts , because that is victory.
Página 31 - E'en on the edge that wrought her death Dying she breathes her sweetest breath, As if to token, in her fall, Peace to her foes, and love to all.