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... wind buy firm dry Who is to build the bridge ? I wish you to bring me my ring . They will find these bricks too thick . Be kind to the child . We will drink a pint of wine . We got a glimpse of it through the mist . The blind man will ...
... wind buy firm dry Who is to build the bridge ? I wish you to bring me my ring . They will find these bricks too thick . Be kind to the child . We will drink a pint of wine . We got a glimpse of it through the mist . The blind man will ...
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... hope it will grow well soon . We do not doubt it will . The snow has been blown the wind . The gourd has grown up fast . poult in this group . away by Put the EXERCISE XIX . cub cube blue tub tube due hug 18 CHAMBERS'S SPELLING - BOOK .
... hope it will grow well soon . We do not doubt it will . The snow has been blown the wind . The gourd has grown up fast . poult in this group . away by Put the EXERCISE XIX . cub cube blue tub tube due hug 18 CHAMBERS'S SPELLING - BOOK .
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... wind . Eight of us took a sail in the lough . The trough was dry at the time of the drought . The steak you brought was very tough . could often would yacht EXERCISE XXV . folk yolk debt. 24 CHAMBERS'S SPELLING - BOOK .
... wind . Eight of us took a sail in the lough . The trough was dry at the time of the drought . The steak you brought was very tough . could often would yacht EXERCISE XXV . folk yolk debt. 24 CHAMBERS'S SPELLING - BOOK .
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... wind blew right in our faces , and made them quite blue with cold . The wild boar is found in South America . Sadly and slowly they bore him to the grave . He tried to bore a hole with a red - hot wire . He paid forty pounds a year for ...
... wind blew right in our faces , and made them quite blue with cold . The wild boar is found in South America . Sadly and slowly they bore him to the grave . He tried to bore a hole with a red - hot wire . He paid forty pounds a year for ...
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... wind 3- so fiercely , that it was with difficulty we kept clear of the 13- that warned us of the position of the rock . He intends to 12- that cask of wine on his 2 - day . The dog ran into the rabbit 6. If you wish to hang up the 5 ...
... wind 3- so fiercely , that it was with difficulty we kept clear of the 13- that warned us of the position of the rock . He intends to 12- that cask of wine on his 2 - day . The dog ran into the rabbit 6. If you wish to hang up the 5 ...
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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...