The American Manual: Or New English Reader: Consisting of Exercises in Reading and Speaking, Both in Prose and Poetry; Selected from the Best Writers. To which are Added, a Succinct History of the Colonies, from the Discovery of North America to the Close of the War of the Revolution; the Declaration of Independence, and the Constitution of the United States. For the Use of SchoolsS.H. Henry & Company, 1833 - 295 ページ |
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... mighty monarch saw her , and was struck with her beauty . He returned the next day ; called for the beautiful slave ; asked her several questions ; and found the charms of her mind superior even to those of her person . 13. He had been ...
... mighty monarch saw her , and was struck with her beauty . He returned the next day ; called for the beautiful slave ; asked her several questions ; and found the charms of her mind superior even to those of her person . 13. He had been ...
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... mighty machine of Eternal Wisdom , -- the workmanship of Him , " in whom every tning lives , and moves , and has its being . " 3. Under an aspect of this kind , it is impossible to pursue knowledge without mingling with it the most ...
... mighty machine of Eternal Wisdom , -- the workmanship of Him , " in whom every tning lives , and moves , and has its being . " 3. Under an aspect of this kind , it is impossible to pursue knowledge without mingling with it the most ...
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... mighty and all powerful Hand , before which we must tremble and adore . 2. Neither the causes nor the issues of the events which we behold , is it in our power to trace ; neither how we came into this world , nor whither we go when we ...
... mighty and all powerful Hand , before which we must tremble and adore . 2. Neither the causes nor the issues of the events which we behold , is it in our power to trace ; neither how we came into this world , nor whither we go when we ...
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... mighty scene . All appears enchantment ; and it is with difficulty we can believe we are still on earth . — The sonses , unaccustomed to the sublimity of such a scene , are bewildered and confounded ; and it is not till after some time ...
... mighty scene . All appears enchantment ; and it is with difficulty we can believe we are still on earth . — The sonses , unaccustomed to the sublimity of such a scene , are bewildered and confounded ; and it is not till after some time ...
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... mighty continental nation , -must be vain , must be fatal . We shall be forced , ultimately , to retract ; let us retract while we can , not when we must . I say we must necessarily undo these violent and oppressive acts . They MUST be ...
... mighty continental nation , -must be vain , must be fatal . We shall be forced , ultimately , to retract ; let us retract while we can , not when we must . I say we must necessarily undo these violent and oppressive acts . They MUST be ...
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202 ページ - The priest-like father reads the sacred page, How Abram was the friend of God on high ; Or, Moses bade eternal warfare wage With Amalek's ungracious progeny ; Or how the royal bard did groaning lie Beneath the stroke of Heaven's avenging ire ; Or Job's pathetic plaint and wailing cry ; Or rapt Isaiah's wild, seraphic fire ; Or other holy seers that tune the sacred lyre. Perhaps...
269 ページ - To establish post offices and post roads; To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries; To constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court; To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and...
201 ページ - They chant their artless notes in simple guise; They tune their hearts, by far the noblest aim : Perhaps ' Dundee's ' wild warbling measures rise, Or plaintive *• Martyrs...
198 ページ - And there was mounting in hot haste: the steed, The mustering squadron, and the clattering car, Went pouring forward with impetuous speed, And swiftly forming in the ranks of war...
169 ページ - The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool, The playful children just let loose from school. The watchdog's voice that bayed the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind ; — These all in sweet confusion sought the shade, And filled each pause the nightingale had made.
262 ページ - He has refused, for a long time after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise; the State remaining, in the meantime, exposed to all the danger of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
109 ページ - There is no longer any room for hope. If we wish to be free — if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending — if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained, we must fight! I repeat it, sir, we must fight! An appeal to arms and to the God of Hosts is all that is left us!
197 ページ - twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street: On with the dance! let joy be unconfined: No sleep till morn when youth and pleasure meet, To chase the glowing hours with flying feet.
197 ページ - Ah ! then and there was hurrying to and fro, And gathering tears, and tremblings of distress, And cheeks all pale, which but an hour ago Blushed at the praise of their own loveliness: And there were sudden partings, such as press The life from out young hearts; and choking sighs. Which ne'er might be repeated...
223 ページ - Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere, Heaven did a recompense as largely send: He gave to Misery all he had, a tear, He gained from Heaven ('twas all he wished) a friend.