A Sequel to the Gradual ReaderD. Burgess & Company, 1853 |
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Pagina 16
... 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 ...
Pagina 39
... 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 ...
Pagina 50
... 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 ...
Pagina 51
... 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. It 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. It is not by starts of ...
Pagina 65
... 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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Pagina 34 - O ! who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast?
Pagina 140 - Yon cottager who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store, Content though mean, and cheerful, if not gay, Shuffling her threads about the live-long day, Just earns a scanty pittance, and at night Lies down secure, her heart and pocket light ; She for her humble sphere by nature fit, Has little understanding, and no wit, Receives no praise, but (though her lot be such, Toilsome and indigent) she renders much ; Just knows, and knows no more, her bible true, A truth the brilliant...
Pagina 34 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
Pagina 217 - ... being the grand reformer of the age. From my spout, and such spouts as mine, must flow the stream that shall cleanse our earth of the vast portion of its crime and anguish, which has gushed from the fiery fountains of the still.
Pagina 214 - 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. I am at the head of the fire department, and one of the physicians to the board of health.
Pagina 218 - 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.
Pagina 182 - 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 148 - 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...
Pagina 70 - 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.