Reading lessons, ed. by E. Hughes, Book 2Edward Hughes 1855 |
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... The Hebrew The Latin . • Difference of Alphabets The Greek Considerations suggested by the Observation of our own Mother - tongue Stages of Language Causes of Change • . NATURAL HISTORY : -Robert Patterson . On the Uses of.
... The Hebrew The Latin . • Difference of Alphabets The Greek Considerations suggested by the Observation of our own Mother - tongue Stages of Language Causes of Change • . NATURAL HISTORY : -Robert Patterson . On the Uses of.
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... cause for believing in the real existence of what we see , unless we exercise our reason to question the images that appear before us . He who knew what was in man allowed for this infirmity of our nature , when he told Thomas to ...
... cause for believing in the real existence of what we see , unless we exercise our reason to question the images that appear before us . He who knew what was in man allowed for this infirmity of our nature , when he told Thomas to ...
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... cause , as when without seeing them we say we are listening to the birds , or smell roast beef . That the thrilling ... caused by roast beef , are conclusions of reasoning from a comparison of previous sounds and smells , with the ...
... cause , as when without seeing them we say we are listening to the birds , or smell roast beef . That the thrilling ... caused by roast beef , are conclusions of reasoning from a comparison of previous sounds and smells , with the ...
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... causes the defect of vision called squint . The external case of the eyeball , called the sclerotic coat ( w w ) , is strong , tough , and fibrous for the protection of the delicate interior structure . which is white and impervious to ...
... causes the defect of vision called squint . The external case of the eyeball , called the sclerotic coat ( w w ) , is strong , tough , and fibrous for the protection of the delicate interior structure . which is white and impervious to ...
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... cause of this difference in feeling we must refer to the article on Heat . It is sufficient here to mention it as a delusion of the organ of touch . 9. HEARING . The organ of this sense ( fig . 3 ) , like that of sight , is double ...
... cause of this difference in feeling we must refer to the article on Heat . It is sufficient here to mention it as a delusion of the organ of touch . 9. HEARING . The organ of this sense ( fig . 3 ) , like that of sight , is double ...
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Page 423 - The spirits of your fathers Shall start from every wave ! For the deck it was their field of fame, And ocean was their grave ; Where Blake and mighty Nelson fell, Your manly hearts shall glow, As ye sweep through the deep, While the stormy winds do blow ; And the battle rages loud and long, And the stormy winds do blow.
Page 18 - And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian airs Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony; That Orpheus...
Page 17 - To hear the lark begin his flight And singing startle the dull night From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise...
Page 131 - What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle, Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile ? In vain with lavish kindness The gifts of God are strewn; The heathen in his blindness Bows down to wood and stone. Shall we whose souls are lighted With wisdom from on high, Shall we to men benighted The lamp of life deny?
Page 361 - The spacious firmament on high, With all the blue ethereal sky, And spangled heavens, a shining frame, Their great original proclaim: Th' unwearied sun, from day to day, Does his Creator's power display, And publishes to every land The work of an almighty hand. Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth...
Page 431 - Prayer is the simplest form of speech That infant lips can try ; Prayer the sublimest strains that reach The Majesty on high. Prayer is the Christian's vital breath, The Christian's native air, His watchword at the gates of death — • He enters heaven by prayer. Prayer is the contrite sinner's voice, Returning from his ways ; While angels in their songs rejoice, And cry,
Page 9 - Tunes her nocturnal note: thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine...
Page 131 - From Greenland's icy mountains, From India's coral strand ; Where Afric's sunny fountains .Roll down their golden sand ; From many an ancient river, From many a palmy plain, They call us to deliver Their land from error's chain.
Page 87 - And oft thy voice in dreadful thunder speaks, And oft at dawn, deep noon, or falling eve, By brooks and groves in hollow-whispering gales.
Page 361 - And nightly to the list'ning earth Repeats the story of her birth : Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.