The Mount Vernon Reader: A Course of Reading Lessons Selected with Reference to Their Moral Influence on the Hearts and Lives of the Young, Designed for Middle ClassesJohn Allen & Company, 1835 - 252 ページ |
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afraid ancholy asked Bible boys brother called Casabianca cheerful chestnut child Clara conscience countenance DELIRIUM TREMENS desk disobedient door duty Ellen father fear feelings felt fire forgive friends Gamaliel George George Jones George Washington give grave guilty hand happy heard heart Helen Henrietta Henry hour Jack Wilder James Juliet kind knew laugh LESSON little John looked Lucy master MILLDAM morning mother mother's smile never night nuts pain parents passed perhaps play pleasant punishment quiet racters recess replied Sabbath school Samuel scholars school-house seat seemed sick sister sleep smile sometimes soon sorrow soul spirit stone stood suppose talk tardy teacher tears tell temptation thing thought tion to-day told took tree trouble voice walk WESTMINSTER ABBEY wild girl William Baker wish Woden wrong
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136 ページ - Boast not thyself of to-morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.
88 ページ - But he did one thing that was hardly fair — He peeped in the cupboard, and finding there That all had forgotten for him to prepare. "Now, just to set them a-thinking, I'll bite this basket of fruit...
87 ページ - A coat of mail that need not fear The downward point of many a spear That he hung on its margin far and near Where a rock could rear its head. He went to the windows of those who slept, And over each pane like a fairy crept. Wherever he breathed, wherever he...
140 ページ - THE boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but him had fled; The flame that lit the battle's wreck Shone round him o'er the dead. Yet beautiful and bright he stood, As born to rule the storm — A creature of heroic blood, A proud, though childlike form.
140 ページ - Speak, Father!" once again he cried, "If I may yet be gone!" —And but the booming shots replied, And fast the flames rolled on.
141 ページ - 'but the booming shots replied, And fast the flames rolled on. Upon his brow he felt their breath, And in his waving hair ; And look'd from that lone post of death In still yet brave despair. And shouted but once more aloud, " My father, must I stay ?" While o'er him fast through sail and shroud The wreathing fires made way.
44 ページ - I HEARD a voice from heaven, saying unto me, Write, From henceforth blessed are the dead who die in the Lord : even so saith the Spirit ; for they rest from their labours.
44 ページ - MAN that is born of woman, hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He cometh up, and is cut down like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.
87 ページ - Now I shall be out of sight ; So through the valley and over the height In silence I'll take my way ; I will not go like that blustering train, The wind and the snow, the hail and the rain, Who make so much bustle and noise in vain : But I'll be as busy as they.
44 ページ - FORASMUCH as it hath pleased Almighty God of his great mercy to take unto himself the soul of our dear brother here departed, we therefore commit his body to the ground, earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust...