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... . When he found himself dying , he said , " How foolish I was to pre- fer show to service ! I trusted to my horns , which have proved my ruin ; and thought nothing of. scour - ed thick - et. BLAIR'S READING EXERCISES . 21.
... . When he found himself dying , he said , " How foolish I was to pre- fer show to service ! I trusted to my horns , which have proved my ruin ; and thought nothing of. scour - ed thick - et. BLAIR'S READING EXERCISES . 21.
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... died with cold , like the others . Thus there was an end to five nice young birds , which all died in so painful a way , because a wanton , cruel and wicked boy shot their mother . poor THE LION AND THE ASS . groan - ing foam - ing dy ...
... died with cold , like the others . Thus there was an end to five nice young birds , which all died in so painful a way , because a wanton , cruel and wicked boy shot their mother . poor THE LION AND THE ASS . groan - ing foam - ing dy ...
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... dying Lion , " I thought it hard to be in- sulted , in my last moments , even by the brave : but to be thus spurned at by thee , who art the meanest of beasts - this , alas ! is worse than death ! " THE DANGER OF ABUNDANCE . mer - chant ...
... dying Lion , " I thought it hard to be in- sulted , in my last moments , even by the brave : but to be thus spurned at by thee , who art the meanest of beasts - this , alas ! is worse than death ! " THE DANGER OF ABUNDANCE . mer - chant ...
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... died , left two sons , the one named Roger , the other Humphrey . By his death they were put in possession of farms sufficient to afford them a decent compe- tency , and nothing was wanted to make them both happy . Amongst the ...
... died , left two sons , the one named Roger , the other Humphrey . By his death they were put in possession of farms sufficient to afford them a decent compe- tency , and nothing was wanted to make them both happy . Amongst the ...
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... died , and blighted was my corn . My daughter , once the comfort of my age , Lur'd by a villain from her native home , Is cast abandon'd on the world's wide stage , And doom'd in scanty poverty to roam . My tender wife , sweet soother ...
... died , and blighted was my corn . My daughter , once the comfort of my age , Lur'd by a villain from her native home , Is cast abandon'd on the world's wide stage , And doom'd in scanty poverty to roam . My tender wife , sweet soother ...
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Page 147 - Then Joseph could not refrain himself before all them that stood by him ; and he cried, Cause every man to go out from me.
Page 77 - And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more ; and, behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to me.
Page 150 - And Joseph went up to bury his father : and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt...
Page 131 - And Jacob their father said unto them, Me have ye bereaved of my children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away: all these things are against me.
Page 106 - The keeper of the prison looked not to any thing that was under his hand ; because the Lord was with him, and that which he did, the Lord made it to prosper.
Page 130 - And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.
Page 79 - It is my son's coat; an evil beast hath devoured him. Joseph is without doubt rent in pieces.
Page 131 - And he said unto his brethren, My money is restored ; and, lo, it is even in my sack : and their heart failed them, and they were afraid, saying one to another, What is this that God hath done unto us?
Page 146 - And we said unto my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one ; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him.
Page 117 - Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt: and there shall arise after them seven years of famine...