A series of lessons, in prose and verse, progessively arranged [ed.] by J.M. M'CullochJames Melville M'Culloch 1831 |
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... Less , without . Ful , full . Ly , like . Ize , make . Ous , full . Heat expands , and cold contracts bodies ; this is the general rule : but there are some cases in which this rule does not seem to hold . For instance , heat hardens ...
... Less , without . Ful , full . Ly , like . Ize , make . Ous , full . Heat expands , and cold contracts bodies ; this is the general rule : but there are some cases in which this rule does not seem to hold . For instance , heat hardens ...
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... less than three storeys , are most substantially built , and serve as most convenient and secure storehouses for the food which they lay up for the winter . Halcyon is both a noun and an adjective . When a noun , it is the name of a ...
... less than three storeys , are most substantially built , and serve as most convenient and secure storehouses for the food which they lay up for the winter . Halcyon is both a noun and an adjective . When a noun , it is the name of a ...
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... less , and that the next time we did so we should have no milk for supper . " - - " Well , then , " said Frank , " we must do without it , that's all ; we will take more care another time : come , let's run and tell mother . You know ...
... less , and that the next time we did so we should have no milk for supper . " - - " Well , then , " said Frank , " we must do without it , that's all ; we will take more care another time : come , let's run and tell mother . You know ...
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... less than a thrush , and had a large head and bill , and a short tail . Mr A. I can tell you what that bird was , - -8 king- fisher , the celebrated halcyon of the ancients , about which so many tales are told . It lives on fish , which ...
... less than a thrush , and had a large head and bill , and a short tail . Mr A. I can tell you what that bird was , - -8 king- fisher , the celebrated halcyon of the ancients , about which so many tales are told . It lives on fish , which ...
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... less fatigue than that decreed To him that cannot think or read ! HANNAH MORE . WHEN he who dies is free from sin , Why should we call it death ? When happy life will then begin , Why fear the parting breath ? When he who lives loves ...
... less fatigue than that decreed To him that cannot think or read ! HANNAH MORE . WHEN he who dies is free from sin , Why should we call it death ? When happy life will then begin , Why fear the parting breath ? When he who lives loves ...
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Page 211 - And Ardennes waves above them her green leaves, Dewy with nature's tear-drops, as they pass, Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave, — alas ! Ere evening to be trodden like the grass...
Page 211 - twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street; On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the glowing Hours with flying feet But hark!
Page 62 - Say, shall we yield Him, in costly devotion, Odors of Edom, and offerings divine ? Gems of the mountain, and pearls of the ocean, Myrrh from the forest, and gold from the mine ? 4 Vainly we offer each ample oblation, Vainly with gifts would His favor secure ; Richer by far is the heart's adoration, Dearer to GOD are the prayers of the poor.
Page 212 - King is come to marshal us, in all his armor drest, And he has bound a snow-white plume upon his gallant crest. He looked upon his people, and a tear was in his eye ; He looked upon the traitors, and his glance was stern and high. Right graciously he smiled on us, as rolled from wing to wing, Down all our line, a deafening shout,
Page 61 - BRIGHTEST and best of the sons of the morning ! Dawn on our darkness, and lend us Thine aid ! Star of the east, the horizon adorning, Guide where our infant Redeemer is laid...
Page 213 - Ho ! maidens of Vienna ; ho ! matrons of Lucerne ; Weep, weep, and rend your hair for those who never shall return. Ho ! Philip, send, for charity, thy Mexican pistoles, That Antwerp monks may sing a mass for thy poor spearmen's souls.
Page 49 - On Linden, when the sun was low, All bloodless lay the untrodden snow ; And dark as winter was the flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly. But Linden saw another sight, When the drum beat at dead of night, Commanding fires of death to light The darkness of her scenery.
Page 74 - THE stately homes of England, How beautiful they stand ! Amidst their tall ancestral trees, O'er all the pleasant land ! The deer across their greensward bound Through shade and sunny gleam, And the swan glides past them with the sound Of some rejoicing stream.
Page 211 - Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve in Beauty's circle proudly gay, The midnight brought the signal-sound of strife, The morn the marshalling in arms, — the day Battle's...
Page 210 - No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the glowing Hours with flying feet— But hark!— that heavy sound breaks in once more, As if the clouds its echo would repeat; And nearer, clearer, deadlier than> before! Arm! Arm! it is— it is— the cannon's opening roar!