The American Manual: Or, New English Reader, Consisting of Exercises in Reading and Speaking, Both in Prose and Poetry; Selected from the Best Writers. To which are Added a Succinct History of the Colonies, from the Discovery of North America to the Close of the War of the Revolution; the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States, and of the State of New York. For the Use of Schools |
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While he held the fatal cup in his hand , he declared that he considered death ,
not as a punishment inflicted on him , but as a help furnished him , of arriving so
much sooner at heaven . 12 . His children being brought before him , he spoke to
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While he held the fatal cup in his hand , he declared that he considered death ,
not as a punishment inflicted on him , but as a help furnished him , of arriving so
much sooner at heaven . 12 . His children being brought before him , he spoke to
...
Página 166
Mercy to him that shows it , is the rule And righteous limitation of its act ; By which
heaven moves in pordoning guilty man . And he that shows none , being ripe in
years , And conscious of the outrage he commits , Shal } seek it , and not find it in
...
Mercy to him that shows it , is the rule And righteous limitation of its act ; By which
heaven moves in pordoning guilty man . And he that shows none , being ripe in
years , And conscious of the outrage he commits , Shal } seek it , and not find it in
...
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The strife is o ' er — the pangs of Nature close , And life ' s last rapture triumplis o '
er her woes 5 . Hark ! as the spirit eyes , with eagle gaze , The noon of Heaven ,
undazzled by the blaze , On Heavenly winds that wast her to the sky , Float the ...
The strife is o ' er — the pangs of Nature close , And life ' s last rapture triumplis o '
er her woes 5 . Hark ! as the spirit eyes , with eagle gaze , The noon of Heaven ,
undazzled by the blaze , On Heavenly winds that wast her to the sky , Float the ...
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The priest - like father reads the sacred page , How Abra ' m was the friend of
God on high ; Or , Moses bade eternal warfare wage With Amalek ' s ungracious
progeny ; Or , how the royal bard did groaning lie Beneath the stroke of Heaven '
s ...
The priest - like father reads the sacred page , How Abra ' m was the friend of
God on high ; Or , Moses bade eternal warfare wage With Amalek ' s ungracious
progeny ; Or , how the royal bard did groaning lie Beneath the stroke of Heaven '
s ...
Página 204
Then shall come the judgment sign , In the East the King shall shine , Flashing
from heaven ' s golden gate , Thousand thousands round his state , Spirits with
the crown and plume ; Tremble then , thou sullen tomb ! Heaven shall open on
our ...
Then shall come the judgment sign , In the East the King shall shine , Flashing
from heaven ' s golden gate , Thousand thousands round his state , Spirits with
the crown and plume ; Tremble then , thou sullen tomb ! Heaven shall open on
our ...
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Página 232 - of the poor. 9. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await, alike, th' inevitable hour;— The paths of glory lead but to the grave. 10. Nor you, ye proud, impute to these the fault, If memory o'er their tomb no trophies raise, Where, through the
Página 275 - into compliance with his measures. He has refused for a long time after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have relumed to the people at large for their exercise ; the state remaining, in the meantime, exposed to all the danger of invasion from without, and con
Página 218 - deep sea, and music in its roar: I love not Man the less, but Nature more, From; these our interviews, in which I steal From all I may be, or have been before, To mingle with the Universe, and feel, What I can ne'er express, yet cannot all conceal. 1. There is
Página 208 - On with the dance ! let joy be unconfin'd; 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! Ann ! Arm', it
Página 208 - Her beauty and her chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men; A thousand hearts beat happily; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell. Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a
Página 120 - we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored its interposition, to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and parliament. Our petitions have been slighted; our remonstrances have produced additional violence and insult; our supplications have been disregarded; and we have been spurned, with contempt, from the foot of the throne. I
Página 233 - 19. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learned to stray: Along the cool, sequestered vale of life, They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. '.20. Yet ev'n these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial, still erected nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture decked, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh.
Página 176 - joys of life's unmeasur'd way; Thus from afar, each dim discover'd scene, More pleasing seems than all the past hath been And every form that fancy can repair, From dark oblivion, glows divinely there. Night. Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty now stretches forth Her leaden scepter o'er a
Página 208 - opening roar ! 2. But hush! hark! a deep sound strikes like a rising 3. Within a windowed niche of that high hall Sat Brunswick's fated chieftain; he did hear That sound the first amidst the festival, And caught its tone with Death's prophetic ear; And when they smiled because he deem'd it near, His heart
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| Título | The American Manual: Or, New English Reader, Consisting of Exercises in Reading and Speaking, Both in Prose and Poetry; Selected from the Best Writers. To which are Added a Succinct History of the Colonies, from the Discovery of North America to the Close of the War of the Revolution; the ... |
| Autor | Moses Severance |
| Editor | S. H. Henry & Company, 1836 |
| Procedencia del original | Biblioteca Pública de Nueva York |
| Digitalizado | 25 Sep. 2006 |
| Largo | 295 páginas |
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