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Page 36
... vessel into a narrow creek . Most of our ships were manned by crews that knew the dangers of a cruise in the tropics . The widow had some oil in her cruse . ( 7. ) Currant , I have planted a row of currant - bushes . Current , The boat ...
... vessel into a narrow creek . Most of our ships were manned by crews that knew the dangers of a cruise in the tropics . The widow had some oil in her cruse . ( 7. ) Currant , I have planted a row of currant - bushes . Current , The boat ...
Page 37
... vessels were served with flour , and each man made it into 14- for himself . He tried to 4- the people into electing him one of the members of the 2- . A brave soldier will 13- for his country . That 15- of physic cost him very 9- . The ...
... vessels were served with flour , and each man made it into 14- for himself . He tried to 4- the people into electing him one of the members of the 2- . A brave soldier will 13- for his country . That 15- of physic cost him very 9- . The ...
Page 40
... vessels will foul each other . We ordered a fowl to be ready for dinner . The horse started with four shoes , but it lost the fore ones on the journey . He ordered the fourth boy to come forth and take charge of the class . The vessel ...
... vessels will foul each other . We ordered a fowl to be ready for dinner . The horse started with four shoes , but it lost the fore ones on the journey . He ordered the fourth boy to come forth and take charge of the class . The vessel ...
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... vessel made but slow progress . The loch did not 6 last winter , even during the 11- frost . A variety of 7- is used for clothing . The fire is supposed to have begun in the 1. The 5 is a very winding river . The origin of that 10- is ...
... vessel made but slow progress . The loch did not 6 last winter , even during the 11- frost . A variety of 7- is used for clothing . The fire is supposed to have begun in the 1. The 5 is a very winding river . The origin of that 10- is ...
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... vessel . Where have you laid my parcel ? The poor man had lain down to rest in the lane behind the house . That man is rather lax in his ideas of honour ; moreover , he lacks discretion . The lambs are skipping on the lea . The ship was ...
... vessel . Where have you laid my parcel ? The poor man had lain down to rest in the lane behind the house . That man is rather lax in his ideas of honour ; moreover , he lacks discretion . The lambs are skipping on the lea . The ship was ...
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Page 174 - Where some, like magistrates, correct at home, Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad, Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings, Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds, Which pillage they with merry march bring home To the tent-royal of their emperor...
Page 161 - Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth...
Page 167 - Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire, Hands that the rod of empire might have swayed, Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre...
Page 163 - BREATHES there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land ! Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned, From wandering on a foreign strand!
Page 176 - Is beauty, such as blooms not in the glare Of the broad sun. That delicate forest flower, With scented breath, and look so like a smile, Seems as it issues from the shapeless mould, An emanation of the indwelling Life, A visible token of the upholding Love, That are the soul of this wide universe.
Page 150 - He that riseth late must trot all Day, and shall scarce overtake his Business at Night; while Laziness travels so slowly, that Poverty soon overtakes him...
Page 171 - The grand transition, that there lives and works A soul in all things, and that soul is God.
Page 150 - Lost Time is never found again; and what we call Time enough, always proves little enough: Let us then up and be doing, and doing to the Purpose; so by Diligence shall we do more with less Perplexity. Sloth makes all Things difficult, but Industry all easy...
Page 176 - E'er wore his crown as loftily as he Wears the green coronal of leaves with which Thy hand has graced him. Nestled at his root Is beauty, such as blooms not in the glare Of the broad sun. That delicate forest flower, With scented breath, and look so like a smile...
Page 171 - Nothing can be more imposing than the magnificence of English park scenery. Vast lawns that extend like sheets of vivid green, with here and there clumps of gigantic trees, heaping up rich piles of foliage: the solemn pomp of groves and woodland glades, with the deer trooping in silent herds across them...