The Practical Teacher; with which is Incorporated the Practical Teacher's Art Monthly, Volume 2Joseph Hughes T. Nelson, 1883 - Education |
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... falls dead on its face , almost without a struggle . The hinder limbs , too , are powerful in their way , the grasp of the foot , in particular , being very great . But when called upon to sustain the weight of the animal upon level ...
... falls dead on its face , almost without a struggle . The hinder limbs , too , are powerful in their way , the grasp of the foot , in particular , being very great . But when called upon to sustain the weight of the animal upon level ...
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... fall of rain over Great Britain is much greater on the West than on the East coast , the average number of rainy days on the east being 165 and on the west 208. This great difference of climate between the east and west sides arises ...
... fall of rain over Great Britain is much greater on the West than on the East coast , the average number of rainy days on the east being 165 and on the west 208. This great difference of climate between the east and west sides arises ...
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... falls into the Bay of Biscay . In this part of its course it receives the Cher , Indre , and Vienne of the left , and the united Mayenne , Sarthe , and Loir on the right These are its principal feeders , but the branches received by the ...
... falls into the Bay of Biscay . In this part of its course it receives the Cher , Indre , and Vienne of the left , and the united Mayenne , Sarthe , and Loir on the right These are its principal feeders , but the branches received by the ...
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... falling man too far ' Tis virtue Kind of Sentence . Subject . Predicate . Object . Exten- sion . ( thou ) my lord press not a falling man too far ( deg . ) b ) Subord of it is virtue reason to ( a ) ( c ) His faults lie open to ...
... falling man too far ' Tis virtue Kind of Sentence . Subject . Predicate . Object . Exten- sion . ( thou ) my lord press not a falling man too far ( deg . ) b ) Subord of it is virtue reason to ( a ) ( c ) His faults lie open to ...
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... falling in the moment of victory . Five days after , Quebec capitulated , and as this fortress was the key to Canada ... fall upon two parallel straight lines , it makes the alternate angles equal to one another ; and the exterior angle ...
... falling in the moment of victory . Five days after , Quebec capitulated , and as this fortress was the key to Canada ... fall upon two parallel straight lines , it makes the alternate angles equal to one another ; and the exterior angle ...
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Page 184 - Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile, Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court? Here feel we but the penalty of Adam, — The seasons...
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Page 29 - Oh, from out the sounding cells What a gush of euphony voluminously wells ! How it swells ! How it dwells On the Future ! how it tells Of the rapture that impels To the swinging and the ringing Of the bells, bells, bells, Of the bells, bells, bells, bells— To the rhyming and the chiming of the bells...
Page 241 - Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as it hath been of yore; — Turn wheresoe'er I may, By night or day, The things which I have seen I now can see no more.
Page 399 - Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which, like the toad.' ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head ; And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in, stones, and good in every thing.
Page 52 - Where some, like magistrates, correct at home ; Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad; Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings, Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds ; Which pillage they with merry march bring...
Page 29 - Golden bells ! What a world of happiness their harmony foretells! Through the balmy air of night How they ring out their delight ! From the molten-golden notes, And all in tune, What a liquid ditty floats To the turtle-dove that listens, while she gloats On the moon!
Page 502 - Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides. Come, and trip it as you go, On the light fantastic toe ; And in thy right hand lead with thee The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty; And if I give thee honour due, Mirth, admit me of thy crew, To live with her and live with thee, In unreproved pleasures free...
Page 500 - And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale. Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures, Whilst the landscape round it measures...
Page 282 - Then, when the dusk of evening had come on, and not a sound disturbed the sacred stillness of the place — when the bright moon poured in her light on tomb and monument, on pillar, wall, and arch, and most of all (it seemed to them) upon her quiet grave...