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Page 106 - Some high or humble enterprise of good Contemplate, till it shall possess thy mind, Become thy study, pastime, rest, and food, And kindle in thy heart a flame refined. Pray Heaven for firmness thy whole soul to bind To this thy purpose — to begin, pursue, With thoughts all fixed, and feelings purely kind ; Strength to complete, and with delight review, And grace to give the praise where all is ever due.
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Page 105 - The morn has but just looked out, and smiled, When he starts from his humble grassy nest, And is up and away with the dew on his breast, And a hymn in his heart, to yon pure bright sphere, To warble it out in his Maker's ear. Ever, my child ! be thy morn's first lays Tuned, like the lark's, to thy Maker's praise. What is that, mother...
Page 84 - Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire ; Hands that the rod of empire might have swayed, Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre...
Page 106 - WOULDST thou from sorrow find a sweet relief? Or is thy heart oppressed with woes untold ? Balm wouldst thou gather for corroding grief ? Pour "blessings round thee like a shower of gold. — 'Tis when the rose is...
Page 152 - PUNCTUATION. PUNCTUATION is the art of dividing a written composition into sentences, or parts of sentences, by points or stops, for the purpose of marking the different pauses, which the sense and an accurate pronunciation require.
Page 106 - Wake, thou that sleepest in enchanted bowers, Lest these lost years should haunt thee on the night When death is waiting for thy numbered hours To take their swift and everlasting flight ; Wake, ere the earth-born charm unnerve thee quite, And be thy thoughts to work divine addressed; Do something — do it soon — with all thy might ; An angel's wing would droop if long at rest, And God himself, inactive, were no longer blessed.
Page 22 - IV and y are consonants when they begin a word or syllable ; but in every other situation they are vowels.
Page 59 - To do to others as I would That they should do to me, Will make me honest, kind, and good, As children ought to be.
Page 105 - WHAT IS THAT, MOTHER?" WHAT is that, Mother? — The lark, my child ! — The morn has but just look'd out, and smiled, When he starts from his humble grassy nest, And is up and away, with the dew on his breast, And a hymn in his heart, to yon pure, bright sphere, To warble it out in his Maker's ear. Ever, my child, be thy morn's first lays Tuned, like the lark's, to thy Maker's praise. What...
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| Title | Town's Spelling and Defining Book: Containing Rules for Designating the Accented Syllable in Most Words in the Language: Being an Introduction to Town's Analysis |
| Author | Salem Town |
| Publisher | Sanborn & Carter, 1854 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 2 Apr 2007 |
| Length | 167 pages |
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