Cobb's Sequel to the Juvenile Readers: Comprising a Selection of Lessons in Prose and Poetry, from Highly Esteemed American and English Writers ...Henry W. Ritter, 1832 - 215 Seiten |
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... publick imposture : guard it , because , when it sinks , there sinks with it , in one common grave , the liberty of the subject , and the security of the crown . - CURRAN . Wisdom . is humble , said the voice of God 30 COBB'S SEQUEL .
... publick imposture : guard it , because , when it sinks , there sinks with it , in one common grave , the liberty of the subject , and the security of the crown . - CURRAN . Wisdom . is humble , said the voice of God 30 COBB'S SEQUEL .
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... grave . Tell your invaders this ; and tell them too , we seek no change ; and least of all , such change as they would bring us . - SHERIDAN . 1 LESSON XXIII . Genius . 1. THERE is a certain charm about superiority of intellect , that ...
... grave . Tell your invaders this ; and tell them too , we seek no change ; and least of all , such change as they would bring us . - SHERIDAN . 1 LESSON XXIII . Genius . 1. THERE is a certain charm about superiority of intellect , that ...
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... grave . 2. On such a vernal day as this did we , who had visited the Elder on his death - bed , walk together to his house in the Ha- zel - glen , to accompany his body to the place of burial . On the night he died , it seemed to be the ...
... grave . 2. On such a vernal day as this did we , who had visited the Elder on his death - bed , walk together to his house in the Ha- zel - glen , to accompany his body to the place of burial . On the night he died , it seemed to be the ...
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... graves . 9. We proceeded along the edges of the hills , and along the meadow - fields , crossed the old wooden bridge over the burn , now widening in its course to the plain ; and in an hour of pen- sive silence , or pleasant talk , we ...
... graves . 9. We proceeded along the edges of the hills , and along the meadow - fields , crossed the old wooden bridge over the burn , now widening in its course to the plain ; and in an hour of pen- sive silence , or pleasant talk , we ...
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... grave but the son and his little boy , the pastor and myself . As yet nothing was said , and in that pause I looked around me , over the sweet burial ground . 10. Each tombstone and grave , over which I had often walked in boyhood ...
... grave but the son and his little boy , the pastor and myself . As yet nothing was said , and in that pause I looked around me , over the sweet burial ground . 10. Each tombstone and grave , over which I had often walked in boyhood ...
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Seite 208 - 21. For abolishing the free system of English laws in a neighbouring province, establishing therein an arbitrary government, and enlarging its boundaries, so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these colonies : 22. For taking away our charters, abolishing our
Seite 22 - The Goodness of Providence. 1. The Lord my pasture shall prepare, And feed me with a shepherd's care; His presence shall my wants supply, And guard me with a watchful eye; My noon-day walks he shall attend, And all my midnight hours defend. To fertile
Seite 122 - young; The noisy geese, that gabbled o'er the pool; The playful children, just let loose from school; The watch-dog's voice, that bayed the whisp'ring wind; And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind: These all, in soft confusion, sought the shade, And filled each pause the nightingale had made.
Seite 57 - breath : 3. Who hath his life from rumours freed; Whose conscience is his strong retreat: Whose state can neither flatterers feed, Nor ruin make oppressors great: 4. Who envies none whom chance doth raise, Or vice: who never understood How deepest wounds are given with praise; Nor rules of state, but rules of good:
Seite 57 - 6. Who God doth late and early pray, More of his grace than gifts to lend; And entertains the harmless day With a well-chosen book or friend. 6. This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands; And, having nothing, yet hath all. Sir Henry
Seite 203 - lies; All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes; Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell, Aspiring to be angels, men rebel: And who but wishes to invert the laws Of order, sins against the eternal
Seite 202 - being here below ? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason would he skip and play ? Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood. 2. Oh, blindness to the future! kindly
Seite 202 - 1. Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state; From brutes what men, from men what spirits know Or who could sutler being here below ? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason would he skip and play ? Pleased to the last, he crops the
Seite 158 - Bright jewels of the mine? The wealth of seas ? the spoils of War? They sought a faith's pure shrine. 10. Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod! * They have left unstained what there they found, Freedom to