The Class Book of American Literature: Consisting Principally of Selections in the Department of History, Biography, Prose Fiction, Travels, the Drama, Popular Eloquence, and Poetry; from the Best Writers of Our County. Designed to be Used as a Reading Book in American SchoolsJ. H. A. Frost, 1826 - 312 páginas |
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... Forest Scenery in New England , 123. Salmon River , 124 Great Effects result from Little Causes , 125. Dialogue , 126. Morning Scene in Winter , 127. The Ruins of Jamestown , 128. Debt and Credit , JONES 255 ANONYMOUS 257 J. SERGEANT ...
... Forest Scenery in New England , 123. Salmon River , 124 Great Effects result from Little Causes , 125. Dialogue , 126. Morning Scene in Winter , 127. The Ruins of Jamestown , 128. Debt and Credit , JONES 255 ANONYMOUS 257 J. SERGEANT ...
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... forest hero , trained to wars , Quivered and plumed , and lithe and tall , And seamed with glorious scars , Walk forth , amid his reign , to dare The wolf , and grapple with the bear . This bank in which the dead were laid , Was sacred ...
... forest hero , trained to wars , Quivered and plumed , and lithe and tall , And seamed with glorious scars , Walk forth , amid his reign , to dare The wolf , and grapple with the bear . This bank in which the dead were laid , Was sacred ...
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... forest , into prof- itable articles of trade ; and it adds , by the whole operation , to the value of lands and to the aggregate of national wealth Besides , surplus wealth will be expended by its holders Lesson 15. ] AMERICAN ...
... forest , into prof- itable articles of trade ; and it adds , by the whole operation , to the value of lands and to the aggregate of national wealth Besides , surplus wealth will be expended by its holders Lesson 15. ] AMERICAN ...
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... forest shade . But thou , gay , merry rivulet , Dost dimple , play , and prattle yet ; And sporting with the sands that pave The windings of thy silver wave , And dancing to thy own wild chime , Thou laughest at the lapse of time . The ...
... forest shade . But thou , gay , merry rivulet , Dost dimple , play , and prattle yet ; And sporting with the sands that pave The windings of thy silver wave , And dancing to thy own wild chime , Thou laughest at the lapse of time . The ...
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... forest , filling it with murmurs ; and , after this termagant career , would steal forth into open day with the most placid air ima- ginable as I have seen some shrew of a housewife , after filling her home with uproar and ill - humour ...
... forest , filling it with murmurs ; and , after this termagant career , would steal forth into open day with the most placid air ima- ginable as I have seen some shrew of a housewife , after filling her home with uproar and ill - humour ...
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Página 110 - themselves by their hands. He has excited domestick insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes, and conditions. We have warned them, from time to
Página 69 - March, 1775. Mr. President, It is natural for man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth—and listen to the song of that syren, till she transforms us into beasts. Is it the part of wise men engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty
Página 69 - navies and armies ? No, Sir : she has none. They are meant for us : they can be meant for no other. They are sent over to bind and rivet upon us those chains, which the British ministers have been so long forging. And what have we to oppose to them 1 Shall we try argument
Página ii - of the said District, has deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit: ' The Class Book of American Literature ; consisting principally of Selections in the Departments of History, Biography, Prose Fiction, Travels, the Drama, Popular Eloquence, and Poetry;
Página 110 - these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connexions and correspondence. They, too, have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity which denounces our separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind—enemies in war ; in peace, friends. In every stage of these oppressions we
Página 69 - Let us not deceive ourselves, Sir. These are the. implements of war and subjugation—the last arguments, to which kings resort. I ask gentlemen, Sir, what means this martial array, if its purpose be not to force us to submission 1 Can gentlemen assign any other
Página 70 - Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction 1 Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance, by lying supinely on our backs, and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot ? The
Página 107 - Sir, I know the uncertainty of human affairs, but I see, I see clearly through this day's business. You and I, indeed, may rue it. We may not live to the time, when this declaration shall be made good. We may die ; die, colonists ; die, slaves; die, it may be, ignominiously and on the scaffold. Be it so.
Página 232 - spirit, speaking on the tongue, beaming from the eye,' informing every feature, and urging the whole man onward, right onward to his object—this, this is eloquence : or rather it is something greater and higher than all eloquence, it is action, noble, sublime, godlike action..