Town's Third Reader: Containing a Selection of Lessons, Exclusively from American AuthorsH. & E. Phinney, 1848 - 288 páginas |
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... whole territory was an unproductive waste . Throughout its wide extent the arts had not erected a monument . Its only inhabitants were a few scattered tribes of feeble barbarians , desti- tute of commerce and of political connection ...
... whole territory was an unproductive waste . Throughout its wide extent the arts had not erected a monument . Its only inhabitants were a few scattered tribes of feeble barbarians , desti- tute of commerce and of political connection ...
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... whole coast of the Atlantic , while the westernmost states of Europe are rejoicing in its beams . Here , it would seem , the sun's course was finished . The law which has hitherto visibly governed his career , must be reversed ; the ...
... whole coast of the Atlantic , while the westernmost states of Europe are rejoicing in its beams . Here , it would seem , the sun's course was finished . The law which has hitherto visibly governed his career , must be reversed ; the ...
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... whole civilized world . It was a Vast , but a hollow shell ; outwardly imposing , but in- wardly rotten to the core , and with the first stroke of the sword of Alaric , it crumbled into dust . The Goth was but the embodiment of the doom ...
... whole civilized world . It was a Vast , but a hollow shell ; outwardly imposing , but in- wardly rotten to the core , and with the first stroke of the sword of Alaric , it crumbled into dust . The Goth was but the embodiment of the doom ...
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... whole range of time , in the wide variety of human affairs , there has been no era so felicitous for his exist- ence as that in which he was born and lived ; at no other point , could equal virtue have met with equal success - no other ...
... whole range of time , in the wide variety of human affairs , there has been no era so felicitous for his exist- ence as that in which he was born and lived ; at no other point , could equal virtue have met with equal success - no other ...
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... whole of one ; but the other is elegant , as well as great . LESSON XV . UNWRITTEN MUSIC . THERE is unwritten music . The world is full of it . I hear it every hour that I wake , and my waking sense is surpassed sometimes by my sleeping ...
... whole of one ; but the other is elegant , as well as great . LESSON XV . UNWRITTEN MUSIC . THERE is unwritten music . The world is full of it . I hear it every hour that I wake , and my waking sense is surpassed sometimes by my sleeping ...
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Página 213 - To him who in the love of nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware.
Página 16 - Motionless torrents! silent cataracts! Who made you glorious as the gates of Heaven Beneath the keen full moon ? Who bade the sun Clothe you with rainbows? Who, with living flowers Of loveliest blue, spread garlands at your feet? God! Let the torrents, like a shout of nations, Answer! and let the ice-plains echo, God!
Página 15 - Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these...
Página 222 - Let our object be, our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country. And, by the blessing of God, may that country itself become a vast and splendid monument, not of oppression and terror, but of wisdom, of peace, and of liberty, upon which the world may gazo with admiration, forever I VOL.
Página 13 - But Paul said unto them, They have beaten us openly uncondemned, being Romans, and have cast us into prison ; and now do they thrust us out privily? nay verily; but let them come themselves and fetch us out.
Página 228 - Affected passion, intense expression, the pomp of declamation, all may aspire after it — they cannot reach it.
Página 222 - Our proper business is improvement. Let our age be the age of improvement. In a day of peace, let us advance the arts of peace and the works of peace. Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.
Página 250 - Happy in the confirmation of our independence and sovereignty, and pleased with the opportunity afforded the United States of becoming a respectable nation, I resign with satisfaction the appointment I accepted with diffidence, — a diffidence in my abilities to accomplish so arduous a task ; which, however, was superseded by a confidence in the rectitude of our cause, the support of the supreme power of the Union, and the patronage of heaven.
Página 147 - Oh, the grave! The grave! It buries every error — covers every defect — extinguishes every resentment! From its peaceful bosom spring none but fond regrets and tender recollections. Who can look down upon the grave even of an enemy and not feel a compunctious throb that he should ever have warred with the poor handful of earth that lies moldering before him.
Página 148 - If thou art a child, and hast ever added a sorrow to the soul, or a furrow to the silvered brow of an affectionate parent; if thou art a husband, and hast ever caused the fond bosom that ventured its whole happiness in thy arms to doubt one moment of thy kindness or thy truth...