Pierpont's Introduction: Introduction to The National Reader; a Selection of Easy Lessons, Designed to Fill the Same Place in the Common Schools of the United States that is Held by Murray's Introduction, and the Compilations of Guy, Mylius, and Pinnock, in Those of Great Britain |
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... Wild Ox in South America 29. Against the Abuse of Cattle . 30. The same Subject ... ..THE SAME . 45 ..THE SAME . 50 .THE SAME . 51 Lui cock . 52 .PIERPONT . 55 .THE SAME . 56 ... ..Edinburgh Encyclopedia . 57 .HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS ...
... Wild Ox in South America 29. Against the Abuse of Cattle . 30. The same Subject ... ..THE SAME . 45 ..THE SAME . 50 .THE SAME . 51 Lui cock . 52 .PIERPONT . 55 .THE SAME . 56 ... ..Edinburgh Encyclopedia . 57 .HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS ...
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... wild state , in the extensive plains of Arabia and Africa , where they range without con- trol . They are also found wild in the immense plains west of the Mississippi river , and in South America , having been originally brought from ...
... wild state , in the extensive plains of Arabia and Africa , where they range without con- trol . They are also found wild in the immense plains west of the Mississippi river , and in South America , having been originally brought from ...
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... wild beast had devoured him . 9. In all this they acted with great wickedness ; for it is the duty of children to love their brothers and sisters , and not to quarrel with and hate one another , but to forgive and forget the offences of ...
... wild beast had devoured him . 9. In all this they acted with great wickedness ; for it is the duty of children to love their brothers and sisters , and not to quarrel with and hate one another , but to forgive and forget the offences of ...
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... wilds , he conceals himself from view , and springs on his prey with a most hideous roar ; but , if he miss his aim , he is apt , like the lion , to shrink away , without repeating the attempt . 7. Though he seldom makes an open attack ...
... wilds , he conceals himself from view , and springs on his prey with a most hideous roar ; but , if he miss his aim , he is apt , like the lion , to shrink away , without repeating the attempt . 7. Though he seldom makes an open attack ...
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... wild beasts . The usual height of this unsighty creature is from eight to twelve or fourteen feet . 2. The colour is nearly black ; the eyes , which are very small , are lively , bright , and expressive ; the ears are broad , and much ...
... wild beasts . The usual height of this unsighty creature is from eight to twelve or fourteen feet . 2. The colour is nearly black ; the eyes , which are very small , are lively , bright , and expressive ; the ears are broad , and much ...
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Page 137 - Away went hat and wig; He little dreamt, when he set out, Of running such a rig. The wind did blow, the cloak did fly, Like streamer long and gay, Till loop and button failing both, At last it flew away. Then might all people well discern The bottles he had slung ; A bottle swinging at each side, As hath been said or sung. The dogs did bark, the children screamed, Up flew the windows all ; And every soul cried out, "Well done !
Page 136 - JOHN GILPIN was a citizen Of credit and renown, A trainband captain eke was he Of famous London town. John Gilpin's spouse said to her dear, Though wedded we have been These twice ten tedious years, yet we No holiday have seen. To-morrow is our wedding-day, And we will then repair Unto the Bell at Edmonton All in a chaise and pair. My sister, and my sister's child, Myself, and children three, Will fill the chaise ; so you must ride On horseback after we.
Page 35 - Now therefore, I pray thee, let thy servant abide instead of the lad a bondman to my lord; and let the lad go up with his brethren. For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me ? lest peradventure I see the evil that shall come on my father.
Page 138 - The bottles twain behind his back were shattered at a blow. Down ran the wine into the road, most piteous to be seen, Which made his horse's flanks to smoke, as they had basted been. But still he seemed to carry weight, with leathern girdle braced ; For all might see the bottle-necks still dangling at his waist.
Page 123 - To clear this doubt, to know the world by sight, To find if books, or swains, report it right, (For yet by swains alone the world he knew, Whose feet came wandering o'er the nightly dew...
Page 35 - And we said, We cannot go down : if our youngest brother be with us, then will we go down: for we may not see the man's face, except our youngest brother be with us.
Page 140 - Now let us sing, Long live the king, And Gilpin, long live he, And when he next doth ride abroad, May I be there to see!
Page 35 - And we said unto my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one ; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him.
Page 123 - The pair arrive : the liveried servants wait; Their lord receives them at the pompous gate. The table groans with costly piles of food, And all is more than hospitably good. Then led to rest, the day's long toil they drown, Deep sunk in sleep, and silk, and heaps of down. At length 'tis morn, and at the dawn of day, Along the...
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