Introduction to the Eclectic Reader: A Selection of Familiar Lessons, Designed for Common Schools |
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... persons from ten to fifteen years of age is not marked by arithmetical figures , and why should their reading lessons be ? If children are interested in what they are doing , they will not need any artificial bounds and metes : if they ...
... persons from ten to fifteen years of age is not marked by arithmetical figures , and why should their reading lessons be ? If children are interested in what they are doing , they will not need any artificial bounds and metes : if they ...
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... persons of all nations , and all conditions . High and low , rich and poor , bond and free , black and white , are our brethren and neighbors in the sense in which Christ intended to use the word in his precept . In regard to property ...
... persons of all nations , and all conditions . High and low , rich and poor , bond and free , black and white , are our brethren and neighbors in the sense in which Christ intended to use the word in his precept . In regard to property ...
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... person who climbs over a fence , or enters by a gate , into another's en- closure , without permission , is a trespasser ; and if he takes fruit secretly , he is a thief . It makes no difference that a pear , or an apple , or a melon ...
... person who climbs over a fence , or enters by a gate , into another's en- closure , without permission , is a trespasser ; and if he takes fruit secretly , he is a thief . It makes no difference that a pear , or an apple , or a melon ...
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... person came to his death by violence ; but no traces could be discovered of his murderers . It was only recollected that one evening , in the course of the previous winter , a traveller had stopped at an inn in the village of West ...
... person came to his death by violence ; but no traces could be discovered of his murderers . It was only recollected that one evening , in the course of the previous winter , a traveller had stopped at an inn in the village of West ...
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... persons , with fifty - three churches , separated from the Catholics ; but , in consequence of the corrupt doctrines and licentious manners of their associates , they have fallen from their former state , and very few traces of the high ...
... persons , with fifty - three churches , separated from the Catholics ; but , in consequence of the corrupt doctrines and licentious manners of their associates , they have fallen from their former state , and very few traces of the high ...
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Popular passages
Page 121 - You haste away so soon; As yet the early-rising Sun Has not attain'd his noon. Stay, stay Until the hasting day Has run But to the even-song; And, having pray'd together, we Will go with you along. We have short time to stay, as you, We have as short a Spring ; As quick a growth to meet decay As you, or any thing.
Page 29 - Where are the flowers, the fair young flowers, that lately sprang and stood In brighter light and softer airs, a beauteous sisterhood? Alas ! they all are in their graves, the gentle race of flowers Are lying in their lowly beds, with the fair and good of ours. The rain is falling where they lie, but the cold November rain Calls not from out the gloomy earth the lovely ones again.
Page 111 - O'er each fair sleeping brow, She had each folded flower in sight— Where are those dreamers now? One midst the forests of the West, By a dark stream, is laid ; The Indian knows his place of rest Far in the cedar shade.
Page 112 - Not as the conqueror comes, They, the true-hearted, came; Not with the roll of the stirring drums, And the trumpet that sings of fame; Not as the flying come, In silence and in fear;— They shook the depths of the desert gloom With their hymns of lofty cheer.
Page 84 - My native country, thee, Land of the noble free, Thy name I love; I love thy rocks and rills, Thy woods and templed hills ; My heart with rapture thrills Like that above.
Page 115 - ... behold the City shone like the Sun; the Streets also were paved with Gold, and in them walked many men, with Crowns on their heads, Palms in their hands, and golden Harps to sing praises withal. There were also of them that had wings, and they answered one another without intermission, saying, Holy, Holy, Holy, is the Lord.
Page 121 - Fair daffodils, we weep to see You haste away so soon; As yet the early-rising sun Has not attained his noon. Stay, stay, Until the hasting day Has run But to the even-song; And, having prayed together, we Will go with you along.
Page 148 - He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle: and herb for the service of man; That he may bring forth food out of the earth...
Page 113 - What sought they thus afar ? Bright jewels of the mine ? The wealth of seas? the spoils of war? — They sought a faith's pure shrine...
Page 84 - Let music swell the breeze, And ring from all the trees Sweet freedom's song; Let mortal tongues awake ; Let all that breathe partake ; Let rocks their silence break, — The sound prolong. Our fathers...