The Fourth Reader, Or, Exercises in Reading and Speaking: Designed for the Higher Classes in Our Public and Private SchoolsSanborn & Carter, 1847 - 408 Seiten |
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... appear sta'tion endear ' ab'sent defeat ac'tion repeat ' invita'tion admoni'tion constitu'tion everlast'ing NOTE 1. Besides the primary , a half or secondary accent is given upon words when they consist of several syllables . It may be ...
... appear sta'tion endear ' ab'sent defeat ac'tion repeat ' invita'tion admoni'tion constitu'tion everlast'ing NOTE 1. Besides the primary , a half or secondary accent is given upon words when they consist of several syllables . It may be ...
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... appears to result more from the antithetic relation of the words to each other than from any very prominent importance attached to their meaning . RULE 4. Two or more words opposed to each other in meaning are emphatic by contrast ...
... appears to result more from the antithetic relation of the words to each other than from any very prominent importance attached to their meaning . RULE 4. Two or more words opposed to each other in meaning are emphatic by contrast ...
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... appear in the same society ? Knowledge . What raised Franklin from the hunble station of a printer's boy to the first honors of the country ? Knowl edge . What took Sherman from his shoemaker's bench , TOWN'S FOURTH READER . 43 Siege of ...
... appear in the same society ? Knowledge . What raised Franklin from the hunble station of a printer's boy to the first honors of the country ? Knowl edge . What took Sherman from his shoemaker's bench , TOWN'S FOURTH READER . 43 Siege of ...
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... appear ! Thy awe - imposing võice is heard ; we hear it ! The Almighty's fearful voice ; attend ! It breaks The silence , and in solemn warning speaks . Now all is hushed and still as deàth- How reverend is the face of this tall pīle ...
... appear ! Thy awe - imposing võice is heard ; we hear it ! The Almighty's fearful voice ; attend ! It breaks The silence , and in solemn warning speaks . Now all is hushed and still as deàth- How reverend is the face of this tall pīle ...
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... appear , they are to turn their bows toward Spain . But even this scarcely afforded hope . Before they could reach the nearest Fort , their provisions might be exhausted , or the relentless tempest might send their shattered barks to ...
... appear , they are to turn their bows toward Spain . But even this scarcely afforded hope . Before they could reach the nearest Fort , their provisions might be exhausted , or the relentless tempest might send their shattered barks to ...
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Seite 373 - Nor in the embrace of ocean shall exist Thy image. Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim Thy growth, to be resolved to earth again...
Seite 45 - There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats ; For I am armed so strong in honesty That they pass by me as the idle wind, Which I respect not.
Seite 401 - I ask gentlemen, sir, What means this martial array, if its purpose be not to force us to submission? Can gentlemen assign any other possible motive for it? Has Great Britain any enemy, in this quarter of the world, to call for all this accumulation of navies and armies?
Seite 48 - He hath disgraced me, and hindered me of half a million; laughed at my losses, mocked at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated my enemies; and what's his reason .' I am a jew : Hath not a jew eyes...
Seite 373 - 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. When thoughts Of the last bitter hour come like a blight Over thy spirit, and sad images Of the stern agony, and shroud, and pall, And breathless darkness, and the narrow house...
Seite 374 - Or lose thyself in the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound Save his own dashings — yet the dead are there; And millions in those solitudes, since first The flight of years began, have laid them down In their last sleep — the dead there reign alone.
Seite 385 - If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union, or to change its republican form, let them stand, undisturbed, as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated, where reason is left free to combat it.
Seite 373 - The hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun, - the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between; The venerable woods - rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste, Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man.
Seite 385 - And let us reflect, that, having banished from our land that religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled and suffered, we have yet gained little, if we countenance a political intolerance as despotic, as wicked, and capable of as bitter and bloody persecutions. During the throes and convulsions of the ancient world ; during the agonizing spasms of infuriated man, seeking, through blood and slaughter, his long-lost liberty...
Seite 74 - Muse, that on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That shepherd...