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 by the Compilations of Murray, Scott, Enfield, Mylius, Thompson, Ewing and OthersRichardson, Lord, and Holbrook, 1831 - 276 páginas |
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... darkness ; when the Almighty was yet with me ; when my children were about me ; when I washed my steps with butter , and the rock poured out rivers of oil . " When the ear heard me , then it blessed me ; and when the eye saw me , it ...
... darkness ; when the Almighty was yet with me ; when my children were about me ; when I washed my steps with butter , and the rock poured out rivers of oil . " When the ear heard me , then it blessed me ; and when the eye saw me , it ...
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... dark terrestrial ball ! What though nor real voice , nor sound , Amid their radiant orbs be found ! In reason's ear they all rejoice , And utter forth a glorious voice , For ever singing , as they shine , " The Hand that made us is ...
... dark terrestrial ball ! What though nor real voice , nor sound , Amid their radiant orbs be found ! In reason's ear they all rejoice , And utter forth a glorious voice , For ever singing , as they shine , " The Hand that made us is ...
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... darkness . A drunkard cannot inherit the king- dom of heaven . I am aware that many are ready to start back with incre- dulity ... dark ? If pure affections , penitent humility , and devout habits , be essential to its bliss , has he not ...
... darkness . A drunkard cannot inherit the king- dom of heaven . I am aware that many are ready to start back with incre- dulity ... dark ? If pure affections , penitent humility , and devout habits , be essential to its bliss , has he not ...
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... dark curtain , which separates time and eternity , and be- lieves in the immortality of the soul , and the resurrection of the body , not only of all mankind , but of all animated nature , and a state of future existence , of endless ...
... dark curtain , which separates time and eternity , and be- lieves in the immortality of the soul , and the resurrection of the body , not only of all mankind , but of all animated nature , and a state of future existence , of endless ...
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... dark and appalling ! - Foe grappled with foe , till the life - blood burst From their agonized bosoms in falling . Gloom , silence , and solitude , rest on the spot , Where the hopes of the red man perished ; But the fame of the hero ...
... dark and appalling ! - Foe grappled with foe , till the life - blood burst From their agonized bosoms in falling . Gloom , silence , and solitude , rest on the spot , Where the hopes of the red man perished ; But the fame of the hero ...
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Página 263 - On its annual return they will shed tears, copious, gushing tears, not of subjection and slavery, not of agony and distress, but of exultation, of gratitude, and of joy. Sir, before God^ I believe the hour is come. My judgment approves this measure, and my whole heart is in it. All that I have, and all that I am, and all that I hope, in this life, I am now ready here to stake upon it ; and I leave off, as I begun, that live or die, survive or perish, I am for the Declaration.
Página 192 - By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around
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 85 - Wept o'er his wounds, or, tales of sorrow done. Shouldered his crutch, and showed how fields were won. Pleased with his guests, the good man learned to glow, And quite forgot their vices in their woe ; Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began.
Página 68 - There were indeed some persons, but their number was very small, that continued a kind of hobbling march on the broken arches, but fell through one after another, being quite tired and spent with so long a walk.
Página 220 - We have petitioned ; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and parliament. Our petitions have been slighted ; our remonstrances have produced additional violence and insult; our supplications have been disregarded; and we have been spurned with contempt from the foot of the throne.
Página 196 - This is a misery much to be lamented, for though they were burning and shining lights in their times, yet they penetrated not into the whole counsel of God, but were they now living, would be as willing to embrace further light as that which they first received.
Página 67 - The valley that thou seest, said he, is the vale 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 end, and again loses itself in a thick mist at the other? What thou seest, said he, is that portion of eternity which is called time, measured out by the sun, and reaching from the beginning of the world to its consummation. Examine now...
Página 261 - Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and my heart to this vote.
Página 144 - 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?