Willson's Intermediate Fifth Reader: On the Original Plan of the School and Family Series; Embracing, in Brief, the Principles of Rhetoric, Criticism, Eloquence, and Oratory, as Applied to Both Prose and Poetry. The Whole Adapted to Elocutionary InstructionHarper & brothers, 1870 - Всего страниц: 372 |
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... thousand pieces of gold ' , and ten changes of raiment ' . And he brought the letter to the King of Israel , saying , Now , when this letter is come unto thee , behold , I have therewith sent Naaman my servant to thee , that thou mayest ...
... thousand pieces of gold ' , and ten changes of raiment ' . And he brought the letter to the King of Israel , saying , Now , when this letter is come unto thee , behold , I have therewith sent Naaman my servant to thee , that thou mayest ...
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... thousand dollars to establish myself in a small retail business " ? " inquired a young man , not yet out of his teens , of a middle - aged gentleman , who was poring over his ledger in the counting - room of one of the largest ...
... thousand dollars to establish myself in a small retail business " ? " inquired a young man , not yet out of his teens , of a middle - aged gentleman , who was poring over his ledger in the counting - room of one of the largest ...
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... thousand dollars for that purpose . " " Indeed'10 " exclaimed Mr. Hawley , evidently surprised at this announcement ; " but you do not think of lending that sum - do you'1 ? " 7. " I do not know , " replied Mr. Barton . " Mr. Strosser ...
... thousand dollars for that purpose . " " Indeed'10 " exclaimed Mr. Hawley , evidently surprised at this announcement ; " but you do not think of lending that sum - do you'1 ? " 7. " I do not know , " replied Mr. Barton . " Mr. Strosser ...
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... thousand dollars . News of the failure has become general , and my creditors , panic - stricken , are pressing for payment of their demands . The banks refuse me credit , and I have not the means to meet my liabilities . If I could pass ...
... thousand dollars . News of the failure has become general , and my creditors , panic - stricken , are pressing for payment of their demands . The banks refuse me credit , and I have not the means to meet my liabilities . If I could pass ...
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... thousand dollars . You know I told you , on the morning I called to offer you an equal share of the stock , that it might prove better than an investment in the bank . " 21. During this announcement , Mr. Hawley's eyes were bent ...
... thousand dollars . You know I told you , on the morning I called to offer you an equal share of the stock , that it might prove better than an investment in the bank . " 21. During this announcement , Mr. Hawley's eyes were bent ...
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Стр. 361 - And nightly to the list'ning earth Repeats the story of her birth : Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Стр. 285 - When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last time, the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood ! Let their last, feeble, and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic, now known and honored throughout the earth, still full high advanced...
Стр. 101 - Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more ? Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth his promise fail for evermore? Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies?
Стр. 79 - ... for expert men can execute and perhaps judge of particulars one by one, but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned.
Стр. 243 - Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace, With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards, his design Moves like a ghost. Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear The very stones prate of my whereabout, And take the present horror from the time, Which now suits with it.
Стр. 285 - I have not allowed myself, sir, to look beyond the Union, to see what might lie hidden in the dark recess behind. I have not coolly weighed the chances of preserving liberty when the bonds that unite us together shall be broken asunder. I have not accustomed myself to hang over the precipice of disunion, to see whether, with my short sight, I can fathom the depth of the abyss below...
Стр. 233 - tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune Or to take arms against a sea of troubles And by opposing end them ? To die to sleep No more and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished.
Стр. 251 - O sweet and far from cliff and scar The horns of Elfland faintly blowing ! Blow, let us hear the purple glens replying : Blow, bugle ; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.
Стр. 182 - And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth : so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered.
Стр. 168 - Now his elder son was in the field; and as he came and drew nigh to the house, he heard music and dancing.