Friend of Youth: Or, New Selection of Lessons, in Prose and Verse, for Schools and Families, to Imbue the Young with Sentiments of Piety, Humanity, and Universal Benevolence

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Cummings, Hilliard, 1823 - 276 Seiten
 

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Cruelty to Animals Pope
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Poetry Ovid translated by Dryden
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Opposition between War and the Gospel Parish
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Poetry Herald of Peace
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Principles of Honor Addison
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Divine Compassion illustrated by Parables
28
Greenlanders Proof of a God
30
Loo Choo Islanders
31
Poetry Gillard
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Character of Numa Pompilius
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Poetry Herald of Peace
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Ode to God Derzhavin
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The Whale Goldsmith
45
Smallest of known Animals Vieth
47
A Battle Quincy
48
Poetry Porteus
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Fascinating Power of Serpents Barton
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Importance of Christian Education
54
Poetry Dwight
56
Influence of Education in Respect to the Love of God
59
Love to Mankind an important Branch of Education
60
Influence of Education and Habit on Horses and Dogs Percy
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Poetry Cowper
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Effects and Influence of War Channing Poetry Polemantios
64
Motion of Plants
68
Varieties of the Human Race Goldsmith
69
Rights and Duties of Rulers Blakslee Poetry Lomonosov
71
Pride not made for Man Addison Poetry Cowper
73
Remarks on Patriotism Gallison
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The Elephant Harris Poetry Oppian Thompson
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Encouragement to use Means for preventing War Moore
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Citizens of New England bound to support Liberty and correct Abuses
86
Webster
88
Humanity to Captives improved
89
Extracts from Russian Poetry
91
Volcano rising from the Bottom of the Ocean Clarke
94
Address to God in View of his Works
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Fenelon
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Heights of Remarkable Mountains
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On the Death of a Friend Johnson
99
Poetry Catskill Recorder 99 48 Kentucky Cavern Clarke
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Celebration of Victories
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Ice Islands and Ice Bergs Clarke
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Noble Monument Poetry Montgomery
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Elizabeth Fry Percy 53 Wiers Cave Calvin Jones 54 Best Way to bear Calumny Addison 55 State of Society in the fifteenth Century Tytler 101 104 1...
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Poetry Aiken
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The Stork Harris
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The Ostrich Harris and Goldsmith 59 Letter from Pliny to Paternus
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Remarkable Trees
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Docility of Animals Smellie
131
Salt Mines in Cracow Clarke 64 Coal Mines
137
No Page 71 Poetic Addresses to Animals Fawcett Smith Burns
150
Telemachus
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Poetry Elegant Extracts
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Clarke
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Scene at Beresina Labaume
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The Safety Lamp
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Calumny a heinous Crime
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A Winter Evening in Iceland Brit Mag
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Trophies of Victory
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Specimens of Indian Eloquence Heckewelder and Boudinot
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Example of the Power of Custom
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Varieties of Verse
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Dangerous Influence of Party Passions
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Poetry Vermont Intelligencer
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Volcanoes in the Island of Java Clarke
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Natural and Martial Volcanoes compared
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The Wild Girl
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Amiable Traits in the Character of the Indians Heckewelder
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The benevolent John Howard
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Effects of Christianity on an Indian Chief Heckewelder
206
Mistakes of Men of humane Feelings Percy
208
Remarkable Works of Art Percy
209
Fire of Baku Pleasing Preceptor
211
Monitions on the Flight of Time Johnson
212
Pitch Lake and Mud Lake Clarke
214
Leviathan or Crocodile Goldsmith
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Archbishop Sharpe and the Robber Percy
216
Golden Verses of Pythagoras Fitzgerald
218
Sleep Johnson
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108 The Boa Constrictor Clarke
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Means for Diminishing the Crimes and Miseries of Man
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The Vultures Farewell to her Children Johnson
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Remarkable Reformation of a Prince
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Dialogue Romulus and Numa Fenelon
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Contents No Page 113 The Mirage Clarke
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The Man of Ross Pope
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Progress of Public Opinion
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The Shepherds Way to Wisdom Gay
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Clement and his Son Zima
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Plinys Eulogy of the Earth
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On Gaming Cotton
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Curiosities of Chili Molina
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The Village Preacher Goldsmith
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False Sentiments on National Honor Channing 128
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Switzerland
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The Discontented Pendulum Youths Mag
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131
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An Economical Project Franklin
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Migration of Fishes Goldsmith
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Blessings of Instruction Bowring
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Themes by a boy eleven years old
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Whirlpool Goldsmith 69 Abolition of Female Infanticide 70 Remarkable Rivers Poetry Vincent 138
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On the Imployment of Time Massillon
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Earthquakes Sketches of the Earth c
271
Farewell to the Young
272
Pronouncing Vocabulary
275

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Seite 18 - blessed them, saying, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth. " And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth after his kind
Seite 245 - children followed with endearing wile, And plucked his gown to share the good man's smile. His ready smile a parent's warmth exprest, Their welfare pleased him, and their care distrest; To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in heaven.
Seite 99 - Eternal Source of every joy ! Well may thy praise our lips employ, While in thy temple, we appear, Whose goodness crowns the circling year. Wide as the wheels of nature roll, Thy hand supports and guides the whole ; By thee the sun is taught to rise, And darkness when to veil the skies.
Seite 245 - Beside the bed where parting life was laid, And sorrow, guilt, and pain, by turns dismayed, The reverend champion stood. At his control, Despair and anguish fled the struggling soul; Comfort came down the trembling wretch to raise, And his last falt'ring accents whispered praise.
Seite 19 - Noah and his sons—" And I, behold I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you :— " And with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you ; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth.
Seite 245 - distrest; To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in heaven. Beside the bed where parting life was laid, And sorrow, guilt, and pain, by turns dismayed, The reverend champion stood. At his control, Despair and anguish fled the struggling soul; Comfort came down the trembling wretch to raise, And his last
Seite 258 - There are in society wise and good men to advise and admonish us. All these advantages are lost in Solitude. O Solitude where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face ! I think the love of society natural to the human race. There may have been some exceptions; but they are in general considered as monsters, rather than men.
Seite 249 - those ills, that round his mansion rise, Enhance the bliss his scanty fund supplies. Dear is that shed to which his soul conforms, And dear that hill, which lifts him to the storms.. And as a child, when scaring sounds molest, Clings close and closer to the mother's breast, So the
Seite 101 - pleased at first the towering Alps we try, Mount o'er the vales, and seem to tread the sky; Th' eternal snows appear already past, And the first clouds and mountains seem the last; But, those attain'd, we tremble to survey The growing labors of the lengthened way, Th' increasing prospect tires our wandering eyes, Hills peep o'er
Seite 27 - who can paint Like Nature ? Can imagination boast, Amid its gay creation, hues like hers ? Or can it mix them with that matchless skill, And lose them in each other, as appears In every bud that blows? If fancy then Unequal fails beneath the pleasing task; Ah what shall language do 1

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