The American First Class Book, Or, Exercises in Reading and Recitation: Selected Principally from Modern Authors of Great Britain and America, and Designed for the Use of the Highest Class in Public and Private SchoolsCharles Bowen, 1836 - 480 pages |
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Page iv
... human voice . Secondly , in regard to the arrangement of the lessons , a different course has been pursued from that which has been usually followed in compilations of this kind . By devoting fifty or more pages , in succession , to ...
... human voice . Secondly , in regard to the arrangement of the lessons , a different course has been pursued from that which has been usually followed in compilations of this kind . By devoting fifty or more pages , in succession , to ...
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... human affairs , has wrought a considerable change in the manners of the English , in the objects of scientific attention , and in the character of literary labors among them . The style of their best writers , both of prose and verse ...
... human affairs , has wrought a considerable change in the manners of the English , in the objects of scientific attention , and in the character of literary labors among them . The style of their best writers , both of prose and verse ...
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... human bosom , hath not often felt , How dear are all those ties which bind our race In gentleness together ; and how sweet Their force ; let Fortune's wayward hand , the while , Be kind or cruel ? Local attachment . Dear is that shed to ...
... human bosom , hath not often felt , How dear are all those ties which bind our race In gentleness together ; and how sweet Their force ; let Fortune's wayward hand , the while , Be kind or cruel ? Local attachment . Dear is that shed to ...
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... human bones are tossed by human hands . No one careth for another ; every one , hardened by mis- ery , careth for himself alone . Lo these are what God has set before thee ; child of reason ! son of woman ! unto which does thine heart ...
... human bones are tossed by human hands . No one careth for another ; every one , hardened by mis- ery , careth for himself alone . Lo these are what God has set before thee ; child of reason ! son of woman ! unto which does thine heart ...
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... human voice . He had a sense of wearisomeness from the motion of the carriage , but in all things else the day passed as a melancholy dream . Almost the first words Arthur spoke were those I have mentioned . As he looked out upon the ...
... human voice . He had a sense of wearisomeness from the motion of the carriage , but in all things else the day passed as a melancholy dream . Almost the first words Arthur spoke were those I have mentioned . As he looked out upon the ...
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