The school managers' series of reading books. Standard 1-6. Intr. primer [and] Standard 1-6, Volumen2Alexander Ronald Grant 1874 |
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... cleverly contrived , by an editor who has evidently thought long and earnestly on the conditions with which he has to deal . " - School Board Chronicle . We commend these " It is impossible to speak too highly of them . books to the ...
... cleverly contrived , by an editor who has evidently thought long and earnestly on the conditions with which he has to deal . " - School Board Chronicle . We commend these " It is impossible to speak too highly of them . books to the ...
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... clever daughter , and said : - " Well , I will have a cup of tea , and I dare say then I shall feel rested and able to take them , as you say you cannot . I have promised they shall have them . " " Oh ! " said little Bessie , " do make ...
... clever daughter , and said : - " Well , I will have a cup of tea , and I dare say then I shall feel rested and able to take them , as you say you cannot . I have promised they shall have them . " " Oh ! " said little Bessie , " do make ...
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... clever a girl not to know that she was saying to herself " peace , peace , when there was no peace , ' " for she felt very uncomfortable . In two hours her mother got home , but she looked very ill , turned quite white , and would have ...
... clever a girl not to know that she was saying to herself " peace , peace , when there was no peace , ' " for she felt very uncomfortable . In two hours her mother got home , but she looked very ill , turned quite white , and would have ...
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... clever at your books , if you make good use of them ; but if being top at school makes you neglectful and saucy to that mother of yours lying up stairs , I had rather you had never known your letters . You have more to learn of such a ...
... clever at your books , if you make good use of them ; but if being top at school makes you neglectful and saucy to that mother of yours lying up stairs , I had rather you had never known your letters . You have more to learn of such a ...
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... clever ; and she was not an unfeeling or thoughtless girl ; and at last the truth dawned upon her . She had all her life been selfish , and a selfish person never can be of the least use as a nurse . It was not so bad a sort of ...
... clever ; and she was not an unfeeling or thoughtless girl ; and at last the truth dawned upon her . She had all her life been selfish , and a selfish person never can be of the least use as a nurse . It was not so bad a sort of ...
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Alice arithmetic prize aunt baby battle of Waterloo beasts beautiful Bessie better bird Bob-o-link brings called Charles child clean clever clothes coo-coo cried dear dress drink drowned Emly England English father fish flowers fond garden girl give head heard hope horse hovel Jones Julia keep king kissing and crying land Letty little Robin Redbreast little schooner live look master mistress mother Musgrove nest never night Norris nosegays Number Pat Maloney Patty Larkins plants plenty poor pretty red cook roots round Russia Ruth sail sang schooner Scotland servant shillings sing slate Smith Spain speak stole sums sure tell there's things thought Tim Larkins to-morrow to-whit told town tuberous root Turkey turn for house-work Whale William the Norman Williams Willie woman wonder word
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Página 92 - 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? "Ah, you are so great, and I am so small, I...
Página 91 - January brings the snow, Makes our feet and fingers glow. February brings the rain, Thaws the frozen lake again. March brings breezes loud and shrill, Stirs the dancing daffodil. April brings the primrose sweet, Scatters daisies at our feet. May brings flocks of pretty lambs Skipping by their fleecy dams. June brings tulips, lilies, roses, Fills the children's hands with posies. Hot July brings cooling showers, Apricots and gillyflowers. August brings the sheaves of corn, Then the harvest home is...
Página 46 - To-whit! to-whit! to-whee! Will you listen to me? Who stole four eggs I laid, And the nice nest I made"?" " Not I," said the the cow, " Moo-oo! Such a thing I'd never do. I gave you a wisp of hay, But didn't take your nest away. Not I,
Página 48 - I think I never heard Of anything so mean." "It is very cruel, too," Said little Alice Neal; "I wonder if he knew How sad the bird would feel?
Página 47 - oh, no! I wouldn't treat a poor bird so. I gave wool the nest to line, But the nest was none of mine. Baa ! Baa !" said the sheep ; " oh, no I wouldn't treat a poor bird so.
Página 118 - The children of Holland take pleasure in making, What the children of England take pleasure in breaking;" I believe their bijouterie and nouveautes are chiefly manufactured for the foreign markets.
Página 103 - WALES is a pretty little country, like England's baby brother. It was conquered long ago by a king of England, who promised the people that they should have a prince to govern them who could not speak a word of English. He then told them his own son, a baby, who could not speak any language at all, should be their prince. Since that time the eldest son of the King of England has been called the Prince of Wales. Wales is very mountainous, and numbers of little sheep graze on the green hills. Welsh...
Página 149 - Africa is bounded on the north by the Mediterranean Sea ; on the west, by the Atlantic Ocean ; on the east, by the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean...
Página 91 - Apricots and gillyflowers. August brings the sheaves of corn, Then the harvest home is borne. Warm September brings the fruit, Sportsmen then begin to shoot.
Página 72 - Dip for it, grope for it — Tis such a loss! Jane finds a drop of dew, Fan finds a stone; I find the thimble, Which is mother's own! Run with it, fly with it — Don't let it fall; All did their best for it — Mother thanks all. Just as we give it her, — Think what a shame! — Ned says he's sure That it isn't the same!