Reading Book for the Use of Female Schoolsdirection of the Commissioners of National Education, 1839 - 408 pages |
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... Character On Fishes Great value of Water in Hot Climates On Equality Early Frugality Early Training of Children Nests of Birds The Moving Plant The Nutmeg Tree and Fruit Artificial Migration of Bees Knowledge always Useful The Food of ...
... Character On Fishes Great value of Water in Hot Climates On Equality Early Frugality Early Training of Children Nests of Birds The Moving Plant The Nutmeg Tree and Fruit Artificial Migration of Bees Knowledge always Useful The Food of ...
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... characters . A very re- ceding , or sloping forehead , has been and is still consi- dered a beauty by many of the African tribes , and this they give their children , by making them wear a flat compressing instrument , which has often ...
... characters . A very re- ceding , or sloping forehead , has been and is still consi- dered a beauty by many of the African tribes , and this they give their children , by making them wear a flat compressing instrument , which has often ...
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... adore ! Doth it not speak to every sense , The marvels of Omnipotence ? Seest thou not there the Almighty name , Inscribed in characters of flame ? Count o'er those lamps of quenchless light , That sparkle READING BOOK . 13 The Stars.
... adore ! Doth it not speak to every sense , The marvels of Omnipotence ? Seest thou not there the Almighty name , Inscribed in characters of flame ? Count o'er those lamps of quenchless light , That sparkle READING BOOK . 13 The Stars.
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... characters ; yet I believe it has more influence than can easily be calculated . An infant is , for a while , totally ignorant of the use of the senses with which he is endowed . He is obliged to serve an apprenticeship to the five ...
... characters ; yet I believe it has more influence than can easily be calculated . An infant is , for a while , totally ignorant of the use of the senses with which he is endowed . He is obliged to serve an apprenticeship to the five ...
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... character . We cannot , then , arrest the causes which our lives have set in progress , and they will go on elevating immortals to virtue and to heaven , or urging them onward in passion , and in sin , and woe.- -Abbott . THE LILIES OF ...
... character . We cannot , then , arrest the causes which our lives have set in progress , and they will go on elevating immortals to virtue and to heaven , or urging them onward in passion , and in sin , and woe.- -Abbott . THE LILIES OF ...
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Page 78 - Falsely luxurious ! will not man awake ; And, springing from the bed of sloth, enjoy The cool, the fragrant, and the silent hour, To meditation due, and sacred song...
Page 138 - How much more than is necessary do we spend in sleep, forgetting that The sleeping Fox catches no Poultry, and that There will be sleeping enough in the Grave, as Poor Richard says.
Page 209 - Shoots into port at some well-havened isle, Where spices breathe and brighter seasons smile, There sits quiescent on the floods, that show Her beauteous form reflected clear below, While airs impregnated with incense play Around her, fanning light her streamers gay, So thou, with sails how swift, hast reached the shore 'Where tempests never beat nor billows roar,' And thy loved consort on the dangerous tide Of life long since has anchored by thy side.
Page 283 - And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the LORD : and he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.
Page 210 - My boast is not, that I deduce my birth From loins enthroned and rulers of the earth ; But higher far my proud pretensions rise — The son of parents passed into the skies ! And now, farewell.
Page 297 - How soft the music of those village bells, Falling at intervals upon the ear In cadence sweet, now dying all away, Now pealing loud again, and louder still, Clear and sonorous, as the gale comes on! With easy force it opens all the cells Where memory slept. Wherever I have heard A kindred melody, the scene recurs, And with it all its pleasures and its pains.
Page 156 - The other teaches me, that every grain of sand may harbour within it the tribes and the families of a busy population. The one told me of the insignificance of the world I tread upon. The other redeems it from all its insignificance ; for it tells me that in the leaves of every forest, and in the flowers of every garden, and in the waters of every rivulet, there are worlds teeming with life, and numberless as are the glories of the firmament.
Page 297 - THERE is in souls a sympathy with sounds, And as the mind is pitched the ear is pleased With melting airs or martial, brisk or grave, Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touched within us, and the heart replies.
Page 138 - He that riseth late must trot all Day, and shall scarce overtake his Business at Night; while Laziness travels so slowly, that Poverty soon overtakes him...
Page 115 - The SUN is but a spark of fire, A transient meteor in the sky ; The SOUL, immortal as its Sire, SHALL NEVER DIE.