The Historical Reader: Designed for Use of Schools and Families. On a New PlanHoratio Hill & Company; Hill & Barton, printers, 1830 - 372 pages |
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... head , And point me to the silent tomb ; Then may religion's hallow'd flame Shed on my mind its mildest ray , And bid it seek , in purer frame , One bright eternity of day . THE RIVER NILE . 1. THE Overflowing of the Nile procures every ...
... head , And point me to the silent tomb ; Then may religion's hallow'd flame Shed on my mind its mildest ray , And bid it seek , in purer frame , One bright eternity of day . THE RIVER NILE . 1. THE Overflowing of the Nile procures every ...
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... head from whence , since time begun , The long succession of his waves has run . This let me know , and all my toils shall cease , The sword be sheath'd , and earth be blessed with peace . THE PROGRESS OF WRITING . 1. PICTURES were ...
... head from whence , since time begun , The long succession of his waves has run . This let me know , and all my toils shall cease , The sword be sheath'd , and earth be blessed with peace . THE PROGRESS OF WRITING . 1. PICTURES were ...
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... head , to denote nature , with God presiding over it . 5. From hieroglyphics , or symbols of things invisible , Were pictures a perfect representation of facts ? -What method of writing next succeeded pictures ? What are hieroglyphics ...
... head , to denote nature , with God presiding over it . 5. From hieroglyphics , or symbols of things invisible , Were pictures a perfect representation of facts ? -What method of writing next succeeded pictures ? What are hieroglyphics ...
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... head against him , caused his dead body to be hung upon a gallows , and made the intended dishonor of his enemy his own immortal disgrace . 6. Xerxes lost in that affair above 20,000 men , among whom were two of the king's brothers . He ...
... head against him , caused his dead body to be hung upon a gallows , and made the intended dishonor of his enemy his own immortal disgrace . 6. Xerxes lost in that affair above 20,000 men , among whom were two of the king's brothers . He ...
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... head of the forces of the east , in order to overwhelm and crush a little country by the dint of his numbers , rightly conceived , from the superiority of his genius and understand- ing , that if they pretended to make the success of ...
... head of the forces of the east , in order to overwhelm and crush a little country by the dint of his numbers , rightly conceived , from the superiority of his genius and understand- ing , that if they pretended to make the success of ...
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Page 157 - His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and, wave your tops, ye Pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave. Fountains, and ye that warble, as ye flow, Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise.
Page 157 - Air, and ye elements, the eldest birth Of Nature's womb, that in quaternion run Perpetual circle, multiform ; and mix And nourish all things ; let your ceaseless change Vary to our great Maker still new praise.
Page 22 - Tis pleasant through the loop-holes of retreat To peep at such a world. To see the stir Of the great Babel and not feel the crowd. To hear the roar she sends through all her gates At a safe distance, where the dying sound Falls a soft murmur on the uninjured ear.
Page 69 - THOU hast left them to their own. But, present still, though now unseen ; When brightly shines the prosperous day, Be thoughts of THEE a cloudy screen To temper the deceitful ray. And...
Page 104 - Cease, then, nor Order, Imperfection name—• Our proper bliss depends on what we blame. Know thy own point: this kind, this due degree Of blindness, weakness, Heaven bestows on thee. Submit; — in this, or any other sphere, Secure to be as blest as thou canst bear — Safe in the hand of one disposing Power, Or in the natal, or the mortal hour.
Page 68 - When Israel, of the Lord beloved, Out from the land of bondage came, Her father's God before her moved, An awful guide, in smoke and flame. By day, along the astonished lands, . The cloudy pillar glided slow ; By night, Arabia's crimsoned sands Returned the fiery column's glow.
Page 103 - See through this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick, and bursting into birth. Above, how high progressive life may go ! Around, how wide ! how deep extend below ! Vast chain of being ! which from God begau ; Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach ; from Infinite to thee, From thee to Nothing.
Page 349 - I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute ; From the centre all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute.
Page 329 - I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.
Page 256 - ... neither would he compare the friendship between him and them to a Chain, for the rain might sometimes rust it, or a tree might fall and break it; but he should consider them as the same flesh and blood with the Christians, and the same as if one man's body were to be divided into two parts.