Practical Education

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S.H. Parker, 1855 - 472 ページ

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274 ページ - Whose iron scourge, and torturing hour, The bad affright, afflict the best ! Bound in thy adamantine chain, The proud are taught to taste of pain, And purple tyrants vainly groan With pangs unfelt before, unpitied, and alone.
409 ページ - The fluttering fan be Zephyretta's care ; The drops to thee, Brillante, we consign ; And, Momentilla, let the watch be thine ; Do thou, Crispissa, tend her favourite Lock ; Ariel himself shall be the guard of Shock. " To fifty chosen sylphs, of special note, We trust th...
477 ページ - Unlike my subject now shall be my song, It shall be witty, and it shan't be long.
414 ページ - Electrical fluid agrees with lightning in these particulars: 1. Giving light. 2. Color of the light. 3. Crooked direction. 4. Swift motion. 5. Being conducted by metals. 6. Crack or noise in exploding. 7. Subsisting in water or ice. 8. Rending bodies it passes through. 9. Destroying animals. 10. Melting metals.
275 ページ - And bade to form her infant mind. Stern, rugged nurse ! thy rigid lore With patience many a year she bore ; What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know, And from her own she learn'd to melt at others...
441 ページ - The village matron, round the blazing hearth, Suspends the infant audience with her tales, Breathing astonishment! of witching rhymes, And evil spirits; of the death-bed call Of him who robb'd the widow, and devour'd...
41 ページ - O in the exclamation Oh! is happily called by its alphabetical name, but in to we can hardly know it again, and in morning and wonder it has a third and a fourth additional sound. The amphibious letter, y, which is either a vowel or a consonant, has one sound in one character, and two sounds in the other ; as a consonant, it is pronounced as in yesterday ; in try, it is sounded as i; in any and in the termination of many other words, it is sounded like e.
449 ページ - On the bare earth exposed he lies With not a friend to close his eyes. — With downcast looks the joyless victor sate, Revolving in his altered soul The various turns of Chance below ; And now and then a .sigh he stole, And tears began to flow.
447 ページ - Are we not here now, — and gone in a moment?" — There was nothing in the sentence ; — 'twas one of your self-evident truths we have the advantage of hearing every day ; and if Trim had not trusted more to his hat than his head, — he had made nothing at all of it " Are we not here now," continued the Corporal, " and are we not" dropping his hat plump upon the ground, — and pausing, before he pronounced the word) —
95 ページ - For as knowledges are now delivered, there is a kind of contract of error between the deliverer and the receiver. For he that delivereth knowledge desireth to deliver it in such form as may be best believed, and not as may be best examined; and he that receiveth knowledge desireth rather present satisfaction than expectant inquiry; and so rather not to doubt, than not to err: glory making the author not to lay open his weakness, and sloth making the disciple not to know his...

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