Reading exercises, for schools, by David Blair |
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... never to speak a single word while you are angry . Never indulge revenge to your own hurt . The sharpest revenge is to despise the affront ; it will then return on him who has given the offence , and torment him with the sting of re ...
... never to speak a single word while you are angry . Never indulge revenge to your own hurt . The sharpest revenge is to despise the affront ; it will then return on him who has given the offence , and torment him with the sting of re ...
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... never forget my advice about the farm and the vineyard . ” Soon after the old man was in his grave , his sons set about searching for his treasure , which they supposed to have been hidden in the ground : " When it is found , " said ...
... never forget my advice about the farm and the vineyard . ” Soon after the old man was in his grave , his sons set about searching for his treasure , which they supposed to have been hidden in the ground : " When it is found , " said ...
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... Never mind it , children , " said the old one ; " for if that be all , you may take my word for it , that his brethren and kinsmen will not be so forward to assist C him as he seems willing to believe . But mark BLAIR'S READING ...
... Never mind it , children , " said the old one ; " for if that be all , you may take my word for it , that his brethren and kinsmen will not be so forward to assist C him as he seems willing to believe . But mark BLAIR'S READING ...
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... It has , indeed , so little desire to change its place , that it never thinks of going in quest of food till forced by severe calls of hunger . It lives upon the leaves , fruit , and flowers of trees 26 BLAIR'S READING EXERCISES .
... It has , indeed , so little desire to change its place , that it never thinks of going in quest of food till forced by severe calls of hunger . It lives upon the leaves , fruit , and flowers of trees 26 BLAIR'S READING EXERCISES .
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... never did any harm in all its life ; and to take it from its young ones who were in the nest , waiting for it to come back and feed them ! The poor little birds could not think why their dear mother staid so long from them , and kept ...
... never did any harm in all its life ; and to take it from its young ones who were in the nest , waiting for it to come back and feed them ! The poor little birds could not think why their dear mother staid so long from them , and kept ...
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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...