The National Preceptor: Or, Selections in Prose and Poetry: Consisting of Narrative, Descriptive, Argumentative, Didactic, Pathetic, and Humorous Pieces; Together with Dialogues, Addresses, Orations, Speeches. &c. Calculated to Improve the Scholar in Reading and Speaking; and to Impress the Minds of Youth with Sentiments of Piety and Virtue. Designed for the Use of Schools and Academies |
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... fire . 22. In horrible suspense he remained until night , when , hearing no more of the Indians , he dived under the raft , and swam silently down the river , to a considerable distance , where he landed , and travelled all night ...
... fire . 22. In horrible suspense he remained until night , when , hearing no more of the Indians , he dived under the raft , and swam silently down the river , to a considerable distance , where he landed , and travelled all night ...
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... fire , they returned it with good interest ; and soon strewed the green with the dead and wounded . Such fierce discharges of musketry produced the effect that might have been expected in a land of freemen , who saw their gal- lant ...
... fire , they returned it with good interest ; and soon strewed the green with the dead and wounded . Such fierce discharges of musketry produced the effect that might have been expected in a land of freemen , who saw their gal- lant ...
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... fire . The labor had been conducted with such silence , that the English had no suspicion of what was passing . It was about four in the morning , when the cap- tain of a ship of war first perceived it , and began to play his artillery ...
... fire . The labor had been conducted with such silence , that the English had no suspicion of what was passing . It was about four in the morning , when the cap- tain of a ship of war first perceived it , and began to play his artillery ...
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... fire of a battery planted upon an eminence named Cop's Hill , which , situated within the town , forms a species of tower in front of Breed's Hill . all this was without effect . But 5. The Americans continued to work the whole day ...
... fire of a battery planted upon an eminence named Cop's Hill , which , situated within the town , forms a species of tower in front of Breed's Hill . all this was without effect . But 5. The Americans continued to work the whole day ...
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... fire to Charlestown , when evacuated by the ene- my , in order that the corps , destined to assail the redout , thus protected by the flame and smoke , might be less exposed to the fire of the provincials . 11. The dispositions having ...
... fire to Charlestown , when evacuated by the ene- my , in order that the corps , destined to assail the redout , thus protected by the flame and smoke , might be less exposed to the fire of the provincials . 11. The dispositions having ...
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Page 158 - Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere, Heaven did a recompense as largely send: He gave to Misery all he had, a tear, He gained from Heaven ('twas all he wished) a friend.
Page 185 - By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet nor in shroud we wound him; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow; But we steadfastly gazed on the face of the dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow.
Page 297 - The wide, the unbounded prospect, lies before me; But shadows, clouds, and darkness rest upon it. Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all nature cries aloud Through all her works) he must delight in virtue; And that which he delights in must be happy.
Page 295 - 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, Whereof by parcels...
Page 300 - There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep Sea, and music in its roar: I love not Man the less, but Nature more...
Page 313 - 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.
Page 279 - Ask yourselves how this gracious reception of our petition comports with those warlike preparations which cover our waters and darken our land. Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation? Have we shown ourselves so unwilling to be reconciled that force must be called in to win back our love ? Let us not deceive ourselves, sir.
Page 156 - The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of luxury and pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame.
Page 294 - I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts : I am no orator, as Brutus is ; But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man, That love my friend; and that they know full well That gave me public leave to speak of him. For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech, To stir men's blood : I only speak right on...
Page 283 - No matter where. Of comfort no man speak: Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper, and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth; Let's choose executors and talk of wills : And yet not so — for what can we bequeath Save our deposed bodies to the ground? Our lands, our lives, and all are Bolingbroke's, And nothing can we call our own but death, And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones.