The Illustrated London Reading BookPrinted and published at the office of The Illustrated London News, 1851 - English language - 264 pages |
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... learning ever pub- lished . ( 144 Pages ) A few copies are Coloured , Price Is . extra . Price 2*. , containing 120 beautiful Engravingt , THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON INSTRUCTOR . Being a COMPANION to the READING BOOK : Designed for a more ...
... learning ever pub- lished . ( 144 Pages ) A few copies are Coloured , Price Is . extra . Price 2*. , containing 120 beautiful Engravingt , THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON INSTRUCTOR . Being a COMPANION to the READING BOOK : Designed for a more ...
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... learning , and it was not with- out letting fall a few ominous tears that I took the first step . Several companions of my own age accom- panied me in the outset , and we travelled pleasantly together a good part of the way . We had no ...
... learning , and it was not with- out letting fall a few ominous tears that I took the first step . Several companions of my own age accom- panied me in the outset , and we travelled pleasantly together a good part of the way . We had no ...
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... Learning , yet we have found on the way more than enough to make us thankful to the kindness of the friends who first set us on the path , and to induce us to go forward courageously and rejoicingly to the end of the journey . Jane ...
... Learning , yet we have found on the way more than enough to make us thankful to the kindness of the friends who first set us on the path , and to induce us to go forward courageously and rejoicingly to the end of the journey . Jane ...
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... learning , And truly wisdom is discerning . Besides , on Pallas ' helm we sit , The type and ornament of wit : But now , alas ! we're quite neglected , And a pert Sparrow's more respected . " A Sparrow , who was lodged beside , O ...
... learning , And truly wisdom is discerning . Besides , on Pallas ' helm we sit , The type and ornament of wit : But now , alas ! we're quite neglected , And a pert Sparrow's more respected . " A Sparrow , who was lodged beside , O ...
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... learning its natural note . ! INDUSTRY AND APPLICATION . Diligence , industry , and proper improvement of time are material duties of the young . To no purpose are they endowed with the best abilities , if they want activity for ...
... learning its natural note . ! INDUSTRY AND APPLICATION . Diligence , industry , and proper improvement of time are material duties of the young . To no purpose are they endowed with the best abilities , if they want activity for ...
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Page 145 - Now strike the golden lyre again : A louder yet, and yet a louder strain ! Break his bands of sleep asunder And rouse him like a rattling peal of thunder. Hark, hark ! the horrid sound Has raised up his head : As awaked from the dead And amazed he stares around. Revenge, revenge...
Page 205 - No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode, (There they alike in trembling hope repose,) The bosom of his Father and his God.
Page 186 - ... for expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one: but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned.
Page 186 - Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them: for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them and above them, won by observation.
Page 190 - See through this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick, and bursting into birth! Above, how high progressive life may go ! Around, how wide ! how deep extend below ! Vast chain of being! which from God began; Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach; from infinite to thee; From thee to nothing...
Page 172 - By the festal cities' blaze, Whilst the wine-cup shines in light ; And yet amidst that joy and uproar Let us think of them that sleep, Full many a fathom deep, By thy wild and stormy steep, Elsinore...
Page 109 - You have the Pyrrhic dance as yet ; Where is the Pyrrhic phalanx gone? Of two such lessons, why forget The nobler and the manlier one?
Page 228 - She'd come again, and with a greedy ear Devour up my discourse: which I, observing, Took once a pliant hour, and found good means To draw from her a prayer of earnest heart That. I would all my pilgrimage dilate...
Page 186 - Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. Some books also may be read by deputy...
Page 203 - Th' applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes...