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... geography and local history , narration and description may be combined by mak- ing them write imaginary excursions , travels , & c . , either in the form of Essays , Letters , or Journals . be shown by taking the other side of the ...
... geography and local history , narration and description may be combined by mak- ing them write imaginary excursions , travels , & c . , either in the form of Essays , Letters , or Journals . be shown by taking the other side of the ...
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... GEOGRAPHY , Wi App umtaming an Outline of Ancient Geoza ! Fulling of Sacred Congranny . Problems on the Use 1 . f the Glos For the Use c : Se Second Edition . 18mo . 1 time for the Cinstruction of Mans . Wish illustrative Funes ...
... GEOGRAPHY , Wi App umtaming an Outline of Ancient Geoza ! Fulling of Sacred Congranny . Problems on the Use 1 . f the Glos For the Use c : Se Second Edition . 18mo . 1 time for the Cinstruction of Mans . Wish illustrative Funes ...
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... Geography , an Outline of Sacred Geography , Problems on the Use of the Globes , and Directions for the Construction of Maps . For the Use of Schools . With illustrative Plates . Second Edition . 18mo . 1s . bound in cloth . In the ...
... Geography , an Outline of Sacred Geography , Problems on the Use of the Globes , and Directions for the Construction of Maps . For the Use of Schools . With illustrative Plates . Second Edition . 18mo . 1s . bound in cloth . In the ...
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... Geography , we hesitate not to state that it claims , in an eminent degree , our unqualified approbation . It is excellently adapted for younger classes , or as an introduction to more elaborate text - books , and evinces , on the part ...
... Geography , we hesitate not to state that it claims , in an eminent degree , our unqualified approbation . It is excellently adapted for younger classes , or as an introduction to more elaborate text - books , and evinces , on the part ...
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... geography . The Outline , both of Ancient and Sacred Geography , we regard as a most valuable addition , par- ticularly as these are seldom taught in school . Sacred Geography is , indeed , almost never taught , though unspeakably ...
... geography . The Outline , both of Ancient and Sacred Geography , we regard as a most valuable addition , par- ticularly as these are seldom taught in school . Sacred Geography is , indeed , almost never taught , though unspeakably ...
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adjective admirably adverbs Ancient approbation article is placed beautiful cheapness Cincinnatus clauses commas consonant Coriolanus Correct such errors Courier duty eating and drinking elementary enemies evil EXAMPLE EXERCISES favour following passages following sentences friendship give Grammar habit happiness honour ideas indefinite article infinite jest infinitive mood ingra Julius Cæsar king knowledge labour language live mankind manual maps ment Metaphors mind MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS nature ness never noun objects observed passions peace person perspicuity piety pleasure possessed preceded Prepositions pronoun proposition Pupils quadrupeds racter Reid's relative pronoun religion remarkable rhetorically arranged rich Roman Sacred Geography schools Scripture SECTION sentence consists silent e stings of conscience STRUCTURE OF SENTENCES style Teacher temperance in eating tempest tences thee thing thou tion Tis green truth verb virtue virtuous wall of China wise words and phrases write young youth
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Page 108 - Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her? The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it.
Page 22 - All our conduct towards men should be influenced by this important precept " Do unto others as you would that others should do unto you.
Page 112 - Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio; a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath borne me on his back a thousand times. And now how abhorred in my imagination it is! My gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft.
Page 51 - A brute arrives at a point of perfection that he can never pass : in a few years he has all the endowments he is capable of; and were he to live ten thousand more, would be the same thing he is at present.
Page 66 - Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss ; A fool might once himself alone expose, Now one in verse makes many more in prose.
Page 113 - And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth : so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered.
Page 34 - I will put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou earnest.
Page 72 - mongst other matter, Of the Chameleon's form and nature. ' A stranger animal,' cries one, ' Sure never lived beneath the sun : A lizard's body lean and long, A fish's head, a serpent's tongue, Its foot with triple claw disjoined ; And what a length of tail behind ! How slow its pace ! and then its hue — Who ever saw so fine a blue?"
Page 11 - The Lord of all, himself through all diffused, Sustains, and is the life of all that lives. Nature is but a name for an effect, Whose cause is God.
Page 112 - I cannot but imagine the virtuous heroes, legislators, and patriots, of every age and country, are bending from their elevated seats to witness this contest, as if they were incapable, till it be brought to a favourable issue, of enjoying their eternal repose. Enjoy that repose, illustrious immortals...