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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A just pride for the literary reputation of our own country , denies the necessity , or
even the propriety , of withholding from our youth , in the books of our primary
schools , specimens of our own literature - - none of which being found in the ...
A just pride for the literary reputation of our own country , denies the necessity , or
even the propriety , of withholding from our youth , in the books of our primary
schools , specimens of our own literature - - none of which being found in the ...
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His principal employment was the instruction of youth an object to which he
directed all his care and attention . He kept , however , no fixed public school , but
took every opportunity , without regarding times or places , of conveying to them
his ...
His principal employment was the instruction of youth an object to which he
directed all his care and attention . He kept , however , no fixed public school , but
took every opportunity , without regarding times or places , of conveying to them
his ...
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But in youth , there are circumstances which make it productive of higher
enjoyment . It is then that every thing has the charm of novelty ; a that curiosity
and fancy are awake ; and that the heart swells with the anticipations of future
eminence ...
But in youth , there are circumstances which make it productive of higher
enjoyment . It is then that every thing has the charm of novelty ; a that curiosity
and fancy are awake ; and that the heart swells with the anticipations of future
eminence ...
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It is the means of raising the most obscure to esteem and attention ; it opens to
the just ambition of youth some of the most distinguished and respected
situations in society and it places them there , with the consoling reflection , that it
is to their ...
It is the means of raising the most obscure to esteem and attention ; it opens to
the just ambition of youth some of the most distinguished and respected
situations in society and it places them there , with the consoling reflection , that it
is to their ...
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But it is not for youth alone that the great Parent oi creation has provided .
Happiness is found with the purring cat , no less than with the playful kitten , - in
the arm - chair of dozing age , as well as in the sprightliness of the dance , or the
...
But it is not for youth alone that the great Parent oi creation has provided .
Happiness is found with the purring cat , no less than with the playful kitten , - in
the arm - chair of dozing age , as well as in the sprightliness of the dance , or the
...
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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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