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... offence . NAME . L L Surg CLASS . SECTION . y Each Student , on the receipt of this book , will enter his name and section , in ink , on the FIRST UNOCCUPIED LINE . HAR Fred'k . Le Roy Sargent . 3 2044 096 988 Edie 7 50.950.5.
... offence . NAME . L L Surg CLASS . SECTION . y Each Student , on the receipt of this book , will enter his name and section , in ink , on the FIRST UNOCCUPIED LINE . HAR Fred'k . Le Roy Sargent . 3 2044 096 988 Edie 7 50.950.5.
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... Entered according to Act of Congress , in the year 1855 , by D. APPLETON & COMPANY , in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States , for the Southern District of New York . Fred'k . Le Roy Sargent . TABLE OF CONTENTS ...
... Entered according to Act of Congress , in the year 1855 , by D. APPLETON & COMPANY , in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States , for the Southern District of New York . Fred'k . Le Roy Sargent . TABLE OF CONTENTS ...
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... entering into details , and for submitting the following remarks to the attention of the reader . It is in the faculties of man , and in their mode of action in the acquisition of know- ledge , that we must seek for the general ...
... entering into details , and for submitting the following remarks to the attention of the reader . It is in the faculties of man , and in their mode of action in the acquisition of know- ledge , that we must seek for the general ...
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... entered upon . Throughout the course , and particularly at the outset , an accumulation of difficulties should be avoided , not to discourage the learner and thus damp his progress . Time will also be saved and the period of learning ...
... entered upon . Throughout the course , and particularly at the outset , an accumulation of difficulties should be avoided , not to discourage the learner and thus damp his progress . Time will also be saved and the period of learning ...
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... enter into some more minute details as to the order prescribed by this method , and examine how the four branches of reading , hearing , speaking , and writing , which constitute the com- plete knowledge of a language , may be rendered ...
... enter into some more minute details as to the order prescribed by this method , and examine how the four branches of reading , hearing , speaking , and writing , which constitute the com- plete knowledge of a language , may be rendered ...
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Page 260 - How like a fawning publican he looks ! I hate him for he is a Christian ; But more for that in low simplicity He lends out money gratis, and brings down The rate of usance here with us in Venice. If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.
Page 261 - Signior Antonio, many a time and oft, In the Rialto you have rated me About my monies, and my usances: Still have I borne it with a patient shrug; For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe: You call me — misbeliever, cut-throat dog, And spit upon my Jewish gaberdine, And all for use of that which is mine own.
Page 276 - Twelve steps or more from my mother's door, And they are side by side.
Page 278 - 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 276 - Jane : In bed she moaning lay, Till God released her of her pain, And then she went away "So in the churchyard she was laid; And, when the grass was dry, Together round her grave we played, My brother John and I. "And when the ground was white with snow, And I could run and slide, My brother John was forced to go, And he lies by her side.
Page 275 - Seven in all,' she said, And wondering looked at me. 'And where are they ? I pray you tell.' She answered, 'Seven are we; And two of us at Conway dwell, And two are gone to sea. Two of us in the churchyard lie, My sister and my brother; And, in the churchyard cottage, I Dwell near them with my mother.
Page 273 - And first one universal shriek there rush'd, Louder than the loud ocean, like a crash Of echoing thunder ; and then all was hush'd, Save the wild wind and the remorseless dash Of billows ; but at intervals there gush'd, Accompanied with a convulsive splash, A solitary shriek, the bubbling cry Of some strong swimmer in his agony.
Page 144 - I WAS ever of opinion, that the honest man who married, and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.
Page 264 - Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see ; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me.
Page 279 - Greece nurtured in her glory's time Rest thee : there is no prouder grave Even in her own proud clime. She wore no funeral weeds for thee, Nor bade the dark hearse wave its plume, Like torn branch from death's leafless tree In sorrow's pomp and pageantry, The heartless luxury of the tomb ; But she remembers thee as one Long loved and for a season gone.