Progressive Readings in ProseRudolf Wilson Chamberlain, Joseph Sheldon Gerry Bolton Doubleday, Page, 1923 - 376 pages |
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... voice , calling to life and to labor , rang round the earth , and whose going forth was to the ends of heaven . 9. The time , then , at which I shall take up for you , as well as I can decipher it , the tradition of the Gods of Greece ...
... voice , calling to life and to labor , rang round the earth , and whose going forth was to the ends of heaven . 9. The time , then , at which I shall take up for you , as well as I can decipher it , the tradition of the Gods of Greece ...
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... voice of thy brother's blood cries to me out of the ground . " Then , side by side with this queen of the earth , we find a demigod of agriculture by the plow - the lord of grain , or of the thing ground by the mill . And it is a ...
... voice of thy brother's blood cries to me out of the ground . " Then , side by side with this queen of the earth , we find a demigod of agriculture by the plow - the lord of grain , or of the thing ground by the mill . And it is a ...
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... voice had in it a faint surprise . " Well , they all want the taxis . It's natural . They get about faster in them , and time's money . I was seven hours before I picked you up . And then you was look- in ' for a taxi . Them as take us ...
... voice had in it a faint surprise . " Well , they all want the taxis . It's natural . They get about faster in them , and time's money . I was seven hours before I picked you up . And then you was look- in ' for a taxi . Them as take us ...
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... . A parent is often interrupted in the course of a narrative , or discussion , by a small piping voice , setting right , or what it be- lieves to be right , some date , place , or fact , and the parent , after a word of INFORMATIVE PROSE ...
... . A parent is often interrupted in the course of a narrative , or discussion , by a small piping voice , setting right , or what it be- lieves to be right , some date , place , or fact , and the parent , after a word of INFORMATIVE PROSE ...
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... voice would come from the nearer shore , the owl having flown across . It was exciting . I fancy that for most Americans the little screech - owl ( so called , though he doesn't screech ) really inspires the ro- mance which in Europe is ...
... voice would come from the nearer shore , the owl having flown across . It was exciting . I fancy that for most Americans the little screech - owl ( so called , though he doesn't screech ) really inspires the ro- mance which in Europe is ...
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Page 238 - I might boast myself le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre, that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending, but I found my attendance so little encouraged that neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it.
Page 212 - Does not every American feel that assurance has been added to our hope for the future peace of the world by the wonderful and heartening things that have been happening within the last few weeks in Russia? Russia was known by those who knew it best to have been always in fact democratic at heart...
Page 14 - The moon shines bright : — In such a night as this, When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees, And they did make no noise ; in such a night, Troilus, methinks, mounted the Trojan walls, And sigh'd his soul toward the Grecian tents, Where Cressid lay that night.
Page 71 - The first creature of God, in the works of the days, was the light of the sense; the last was the light of reason ; and his sabbath work ever since is the illumination of his Spirit.
Page 171 - I have not allowed myself, Sir, to look beyond the Union, to see what might lie hidden in the dark recess behind. I have not coolly weighed the chances of preserving liberty when the bonds that unite us together shall be broken asunder. I have not accustomed myself to hang over...
Page 212 - We are accepting this challenge of hostile purpose because we know that in such a Government, following such methods, we can never have a friend ; and that in the presence of its organized power, always lying in wait to accomplish we know not what purpose, there can be no assured security for the democratic Governments of the world.
Page 30 - Set me as a seal upon thine heart, As a seal upon thine arm : For love is strong as death; Jealousy is cruel as the grave: The coals thereof are coals of fire, Which hath a most vehement flame.
Page 141 - Lords and commons of England ! consider what nation it is whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit ; acute to invent, subtile and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to.
Page 14 - I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where ox-lips and the nodding violet grows ; Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses, and with eglantine...
Page 265 - So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them. For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with: sackcloth, and sat in ashes.