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... presents the thoughts and language of daily life ; Part Second spe- cially treats of words alike in pronunciation , but unlike in spelling ; Part Third deals with the technical expressions of elementary science and with the language of ...
... presents the thoughts and language of daily life ; Part Second spe- cially treats of words alike in pronunciation , but unlike in spelling ; Part Third deals with the technical expressions of elementary science and with the language of ...
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... present in season . LESSON LX . Thirty days hath September , April , June , and November ; February twenty - eight alone ; All the rest have thirty - one . On leap - years , February has twenty - nine days . April showers bring forth ...
... present in season . LESSON LX . Thirty days hath September , April , June , and November ; February twenty - eight alone ; All the rest have thirty - one . On leap - years , February has twenty - nine days . April showers bring forth ...
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... present bills to all alike . The shore was strewn with fragments of the cargo . A rude cabin was speedily erected and occupied . LESSON XCVIII . The daughter was devoted to her parents ; Her box held needles , thread , and scissors ...
... present bills to all alike . The shore was strewn with fragments of the cargo . A rude cabin was speedily erected and occupied . LESSON XCVIII . The daughter was devoted to her parents ; Her box held needles , thread , and scissors ...
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... presents them to view ! " 49 " Oft on the trampling band , from crown Of some tall cliff , the deer looked down . " 50 66 LESSON XXV . Up our long river - valley for days have not ceased , The wail and the shriek of the bitter northeast ...
... presents them to view ! " 49 " Oft on the trampling band , from crown Of some tall cliff , the deer looked down . " 50 66 LESSON XXV . Up our long river - valley for days have not ceased , The wail and the shriek of the bitter northeast ...
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... present , and future . In regard to form , verbs are regular and irregular . Only transitive verbs are inflected by voice . In the active voice the actor is subject of the verb . In the passive voice the receiver is subject of the verb ...
... present , and future . In regard to form , verbs are regular and irregular . Only transitive verbs are inflected by voice . In the active voice the actor is subject of the verb . In the passive voice the receiver is subject of the verb ...
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Page 155 - ... whose passions are trained to come to heel by a vigorous will, the servant of a tender conscience; who has learned to love all beauty, whether of Nature or of art, to hate all vileness, and to respect others as himself.
Page 150 - I CHATTER over stony ways, In little sharps and trebles, I bubble into eddying bays, I babble on the pebbles. With many a curve my banks I fret By many a field and fallow, And many a fairy foreland set With willow-weed and mallow.
Page 130 - The world recedes; it disappears! Heaven opens on my eyes! my ears With sounds seraphic ring: Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O Grave! where is thy victory? O Death! where is thy sting?
Page 130 - VITAL spark of heavenly flame ! Quit, oh, quit this mortal frame ! Trembling, hoping, lingering, flying : Oh, the pain, the bliss of dying ! Cease, fond nature ! cease thy strife, And let me languish into life ! Hark, they whisper ; angels say,
Page 137 - Though justice be thy plea, consider this, That in the course of justice none of us Should see salvation : we do pray for mercy, And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy.
Page 135 - Meanwhile, impatient to mount and ride, Booted and spurred, with a heavy stride On the opposite shore walked Paul Revere.
Page 142 - ... night ; swallows and martins skimmed twittering about the eaves ; and rows of pigeons, some with one eye turned up, as if watching the weather, some with their heads under their wings, or buried in their bosoms, and others swelling, and cooing, and bowing about their dames, were enjoying the sunshine on the roof.
Page 127 - BREATHES there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land ! Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned, From wandering on a foreign strand...
Page 125 - The sober herd that lowed to meet their young, The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool, The playful children just let loose from school...
Page 148 - Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.