Evenings at Home, Or, The Juvenile Budget Opened: Consisting of a Variety of Miscellaneous Pieces for the Instruction and Amusement of Young PersonsBaldwin, Cradock, and Joy, and R. Hunter, successor to J. Johnson, 1819 - Children |
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... set out for some remote country , where they en- joy summer weather all the year round . My neighbour Cuckoo tells me he is just going ; and even little Nightingale will soon follow DISCONTENTED SQUIRREL . 45 Discontented Squirrel 4 5.
... set out for some remote country , where they en- joy summer weather all the year round . My neighbour Cuckoo tells me he is just going ; and even little Nightingale will soon follow DISCONTENTED SQUIRREL . 45 Discontented Squirrel 4 5.
Page 46
... soon follow . To be sure , I have not wings like them , but I have legs nimble enough ; and if one does not use them , one might as well be a mole or a dormouse . I dare say I could easily reach to that blue ridge which I see from the ...
... soon follow . To be sure , I have not wings like them , but I have legs nimble enough ; and if one does not use them , one might as well be a mole or a dormouse . I dare say I could easily reach to that blue ridge which I see from the ...
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... soon , for I have often heard you say that children cannot be set too early about what is necessary for them to do . M. That's very true , but all things are not equally necessary to every one ; but some that are very fit for one , are ...
... soon , for I have often heard you say that children cannot be set too early about what is necessary for them to do . M. That's very true , but all things are not equally necessary to every one ; but some that are very fit for one , are ...
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... soon as you are able ? K. O yes , mamma , I should be very glad to do that . M. Well , consider , what talents will be necessary for that purpose ; will not a good hand at your needle be one of the very first qualities ? K. I believe it ...
... soon as you are able ? K. O yes , mamma , I should be very glad to do that . M. Well , consider , what talents will be necessary for that purpose ; will not a good hand at your needle be one of the very first qualities ? K. I believe it ...
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... soon come to be ruined before he knew that his affairs : were going wrong . K. But do women always keep ac- counts ? I thought that was generally the business of the men . M. It is their business to keep the accounts belonging 96 THIRD ...
... soon come to be ruined before he knew that his affairs : were going wrong . K. But do women always keep ac- counts ? I thought that was generally the business of the men . M. It is their business to keep the accounts belonging 96 THIRD ...
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Page 152 - And what is a conqueror ? Have not you, too, gone about the earth like an evil genius, blasting the fair fruits of peace and industry ; plundering, ravaging, killing, without law, without justice, merely to gratify an insatiable lust for dominion...
Page 150 - I don't mind it much, for my mammy gives me a pie now and then, and that is as good. Mr. L. Would you not like a knife, to cut sticks ? B. I have one, here it is.
Page 31 - pray what are coals but stones ; and is not butter, grease ; and corn, seeds ; and leather, skins ; and silk, the web of a kind of caterpillar ; and may we not as well call a cat an animal of the tiger kind, as a tiger an animal of the cat kind...
Page 152 - And does not Fame speak of me too ? Was there ever a bolder captain of a more valiant band ? Was there ever — but I scorn to boast.
Page 153 - If I have burned a few hamlets, you have desolated the most flourishing kingdoms and cities of the earth. What is then the difference, but that...
Page 150 - Hast thou not set at defiance my authority ; violated the public peace ; and passed thy life in injuring the persons and properties of thy fellowsubjects ? ROBBER.
Page 149 - No, sir ; but our Tom makes footballs, to kick in the cold weather, and we set traps for birds ; and then I have a...
Page 73 - His spear, — to equal which, the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand...
Page 161 - I have no allurements to tempt you with, like those of my gay rival. Instead of spending all your time in amusements, if you enter yourself of my train, you must rise early, and pass the long day in a variety of employments, some of them difficult, some laborious, and all requiring some exertion of body or mind.
Page 153 - But if I have taken like a king, I have given like a king. If I have subverted empires, I have founded greater.