The National Reader: A Selection of Exercises in Reading and Speaking, Designed to Fill the Same Place in the Schools of the United States that is Held in Those of Great Britain ...Hilliard, Gray, Little and Wilkins, 1828 - 276 páginas |
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Página 38
... valley . One moment , and nought but the bugle was heard , And nought but the war - whoop given ; The next and the sky seemed convulsively stirred , As if by the lightning riven . The din of the steed , and the sabred stroke , The blood ...
... valley . One moment , and nought but the bugle was heard , And nought but the war - whoop given ; The next and the sky seemed convulsively stirred , As if by the lightning riven . The din of the steed , and the sabred stroke , The blood ...
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... valley in the world , larger , in fact , than half of Europe , all its remotest points being brought into proximity by a stream , which runs the length of that continent , and to which all but two or three of the rivers of Europe are ...
... valley in the world , larger , in fact , than half of Europe , all its remotest points being brought into proximity by a stream , which runs the length of that continent , and to which all but two or three of the rivers of Europe are ...
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... valley of the shadow of death opens , " through which thou must pass at last . It is then thou shalt know what it is to " remember thy Creator in the days of thy youth . " In these days of trial or of awe , " his spirit shall be with ...
... valley of the shadow of death opens , " through which thou must pass at last . It is then thou shalt know what it is to " remember thy Creator in the days of thy youth . " In these days of trial or of awe , " his spirit shall be with ...
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... valleys , and saw the hills gradually rising before him . As he passed along , his ears were delighted with the morning song of the bird of paradise ; he was fanned by the last flutters of the sinking breeze , and sprinkled with dew by ...
... valleys , and saw the hills gradually rising before him . As he passed along , his ears were delighted with the morning song of the bird of paradise ; he was fanned by the last flutters of the sinking breeze , and sprinkled with dew by ...
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... valley that thou seest , " said he , " is the valley of misery , and the tide of water that thou seest is part of the great tide of eternity . " " What is the reason , " said I , " that the tide I see rises out of a thick mist at one ...
... valley that thou seest , " said he , " is the valley of misery , and the tide of water that thou seest is part of the great tide of eternity . " " What is the reason , " said I , " that the tide I see rises out of a thick mist at one ...
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Página 142 - Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said, Behold, I thought, He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of the LORD his God, and strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper.
Página 24 - Soon as the evening shades prevail The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth. Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Página 21 - OH THAT I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me; When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness...
Página 142 - So he turned and went away in a rage. 13 And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? how much rather then when he saith to thee, Wash and be clean?
Página 143 - And he returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and came, and stood before him: and he said, Behold, now I know that there is no God in all the earth, but in Israel: now therefore, I pray thee, take a blessing of thy servant.
Página 67 - He then led me to the highest pinnacle of the rock, and placing me on the top of it, Cast thy eyes eastward, said he, and tell me what thou seest. I see, said I, a huge valley, and a prodigious tide of water rolling through it.
Página 142 - And it came to pass, when the king of Israel had read the letter, that he rent his clothes, and said, Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man doth send unto me to recover a man of his leprosy ? Wherefore consider, I pray you, and see how he seeketh a quarrel against me.
Página 67 - I see a bridge, said I, standing in the midst of the tide. The bridge thou seest, said he, is human life, consider it attentively. Upon a more leisurely survey of it, I found that it consisted of threescore and ten entire arches, with several broken arches, which, added to those that were entire, made up the number about an hundred.
Página 232 - There, at the foot of yonder nodding beech, That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.
Página 193 - We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow ! Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him ; But little hell reck if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him...