Town's Third Reader: Containing a Selection of Lessons, Exclusively from American AuthorsH. & E. Phinney, 1848 - 288 ページ |
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... course was finished . The law which has hitherto visibly governed his career , must be reversed ; the world's western limit has been reach- ed , and either his setting is at hand , or he must roll backward through his orbit . But it is ...
... course was finished . The law which has hitherto visibly governed his career , must be reversed ; the world's western limit has been reach- ed , and either his setting is at hand , or he must roll backward through his orbit . But it is ...
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... present occupation , than did the instruments by which it was effected , differ from those by which the con- quest of America is in the course of accomplishment . The Roman state retained , in appearance , the same 26 TOWN S.
... present occupation , than did the instruments by which it was effected , differ from those by which the con- quest of America is in the course of accomplishment . The Roman state retained , in appearance , the same 26 TOWN S.
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... her fountains , but you will hear no murmur- they are as the water courses of the desert . There too , are her gardens , but the barrenness of long antiquity is theirs . You may stand in her amphitheatre , and you shall 3 THIRD READER . 33.
... her fountains , but you will hear no murmur- they are as the water courses of the desert . There too , are her gardens , but the barrenness of long antiquity is theirs . You may stand in her amphitheatre , and you shall 3 THIRD READER . 33.
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... courses . But the earth by its quakings , the volcano by its fires , the ocean by its mountain waves , and the floods of Niagara by their matchless power and ceaseless thunderings , proclaim to the eye , and to the ear , and to the ...
... courses . But the earth by its quakings , the volcano by its fires , the ocean by its mountain waves , and the floods of Niagara by their matchless power and ceaseless thunderings , proclaim to the eye , and to the ear , and to the ...
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... the change and casualty of life , he stood a model and ex- emplar to the human race . In the purity of his mo- tives , in the nobleness of his designs , and in the extent and success of his course , he stands without a THIRD READER . 51.
... the change and casualty of life , he stood a model and ex- emplar to the human race . In the purity of his mo- tives , in the nobleness of his designs , and in the extent and success of his course , he stands without a THIRD READER . 51.
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213 ページ - 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.
16 ページ - 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!
15 ページ - Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these...
222 ページ - 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.
13 ページ - 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.
228 ページ - Affected passion, intense expression, the pomp of declamation, all may aspire after it — they cannot reach it.
222 ページ - 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.
250 ページ - 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.
147 ページ - 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.
148 ページ - 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...