Everyday English, Book 1 ...Educational Publishing Company, 1903 - English language |
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... practice . This is not truth , and no system founded upon untruth can endure . For the final court of appeal in matters of English speech is the law of good usage . But the memorizing of rules which are no rules has usurped the place of ...
... practice . This is not truth , and no system founded upon untruth can endure . For the final court of appeal in matters of English speech is the law of good usage . But the memorizing of rules which are no rules has usurped the place of ...
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... practiced in turn by Robinson Crusoe alone on his island . NOTE : See Appendix for notes upon lessons . Gamarra is a dainty steed , Strong , black , and of a noble breed , Full of fire , and full of bone , With all his line of fathers ...
... practiced in turn by Robinson Crusoe alone on his island . NOTE : See Appendix for notes upon lessons . Gamarra is a dainty steed , Strong , black , and of a noble breed , Full of fire , and full of bone , With all his line of fathers ...
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... practice , he secluded himself for a while with the family of an American farmer , where he would hear no French . Soon he had gained enough to announce a sermon in English . Mr. Benton was present , and his feelings can be imagined ...
... practice , he secluded himself for a while with the family of an American farmer , where he would hear no French . Soon he had gained enough to announce a sermon in English . Mr. Benton was present , and his feelings can be imagined ...
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... practice of studying words with regard to the company they keep and the habits they have . Yes , I mean just that . Words get into habits just as you and I do . They seem to feel out of place in some sur- roundings and perfectly at home ...
... practice of studying words with regard to the company they keep and the habits they have . Yes , I mean just that . Words get into habits just as you and I do . They seem to feel out of place in some sur- roundings and perfectly at home ...
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... practice a habit for the rest of your life . This you may at last come to do unconsciously , if you persevere in your first efforts . For , the thing most necessary here is that by the study of words and their uses you shall gradually ...
... practice a habit for the rest of your life . This you may at last come to do unconsciously , if you persevere in your first efforts . For , the thing most necessary here is that by the study of words and their uses you shall gradually ...
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Page 81 - His hair is crisp, and black, and long ; His face is like the tan ; His brow is wet with honest sweat ; He earns whate'er he can ; And looks the whole world in the face, For he owes not any man.
Page 12 - Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O UNION, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate! We know what Master laid thy keel, What Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each mast, and sail, and rope, What anvils rang, what hammers beat, In what a forge, and what a heat Were shaped the anchors of thy hope!
Page 4 - THIS is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic, Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms.
Page 12 - Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State ! Sail on, O UNION, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, . ' Is hanging breathless on thy fate...
Page 75 - Stop thief! stop thief! — a highwayman! Not one of them was mute; And all and each that passed that way Did join in the pursuit. And now the turnpike gates again Flew open in short space; The toll-men thinking as before That Gilpin rode a race.
Page 137 - IT was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea That a maiden there lived whom you may know By the name of ANNABEL LEE ; And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me.
Page 231 - Risest from forth thy silent sea of pines How silently ! Around thee and above Deep is the air and dark, substantial, black. An ebon mass : methinks thou piercest it, As with a wedge ! but when I look again, It is thine own calm home, thy crystal shrine, Thy habitation from eternity ! 0 dread and silent mount ! I gazed upon thee, Till thou, still present to the bodily sense, Didst vanish from my thought : entranced in prayer 1 worshipped the Invisible alone.
Page 173 - ABOU BEN ADHEM (may his tribe increase!) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace, And saw within the moonlight in his room, Making it rich and like a lily in bloom, An angel writing in a book of gold: Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold, And to the presence in the room he said, "What writest thou?" The vision raised its head, And, with a look made of all sweet accord, Answered, "The names of those who love the Lord.
Page 12 - An hour passed on — the Turk awoke; That bright dream was his last; He woke — to hear his sentries shriek, "To arms! they come! the Greek! the Greek!
Page 234 - Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end. Will the day's journey take the whole long day? From morn to night, my friend.