The Kensington series of lesson books (ed. by J.W. Laurie). Primer, pt, Volum 6 |
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Pàgina 20
... give a character to ; to dis- tinguish . Australia - the quarter of the globe to which so many of our fellow - countrymen are at the present moment bending their course , and upon which the eyes of the civilized world are fixed - is a ...
... give a character to ; to dis- tinguish . Australia - the quarter of the globe to which so many of our fellow - countrymen are at the present moment bending their course , and upon which the eyes of the civilized world are fixed - is a ...
Pàgina 26
... give hardness to tin and other metals . What are mus- catels ? This word is also spelt muscadel . Raisins made from a fine kind of grape , from which also rich wine is made . What are photographs ? Sun pictures . Pictures produced by ...
... give hardness to tin and other metals . What are mus- catels ? This word is also spelt muscadel . Raisins made from a fine kind of grape , from which also rich wine is made . What are photographs ? Sun pictures . Pictures produced by ...
Pàgina 47
... Give examples of places having insular and continental climates . Give any countries you know which are made colder by the presence of mountains , and any made warmer . What kind of winds are east winds in England and in New York ? What ...
... Give examples of places having insular and continental climates . Give any countries you know which are made colder by the presence of mountains , and any made warmer . What kind of winds are east winds in England and in New York ? What ...
Pàgina 61
... give five guineas . In Africa the natives revel in locusts- salted , smoked , roasted , boiled , and fried . They are carried into the towns by waggon - loads , like poultry when brought to market . In California the digger Indian ...
... give five guineas . In Africa the natives revel in locusts- salted , smoked , roasted , boiled , and fried . They are carried into the towns by waggon - loads , like poultry when brought to market . In California the digger Indian ...
Pàgina 65
... , In merely being rich and great ; Toil only gives the soul to shine , And makes rest fragrant and benign . A heritage , it seems to me , Worth being poor to hold in fee . 6 E Both heirs to some six feet of sod , Are THE HERITAGE . 65.
... , In merely being rich and great ; Toil only gives the soul to shine , And makes rest fragrant and benign . A heritage , it seems to me , Worth being poor to hold in fee . 6 E Both heirs to some six feet of sod , Are THE HERITAGE . 65.
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Africa America animals Arctic army Asia Atlantic Australia battle BATTLE OF FONTENOY belong birds Britain British burning called carnivora caused chiefly China civilisation climate cloth coal colonies colour continent cultivated defeated DERIVATION desert died Dr Livingstone earth England English Europe father feet fire flames France French George George III giraffe globe Gulf Stream Gutenberg HANOVER Harry heat hemisphere HOUSE OF HANOVER hundred hundredweights India inhabitants insects Ireland islands kind king labour land lion Lord Lord John Russell MEANING ment metal miles mountain Napoleon native night North o'er ocean ostrich Parliament peace plants Playhour pounds printed quadrupeds regions river round Russia Scotland shillings skin soon South South America species steam-engine stream SUMMARY.-The temperate tion torrid zone trees tribes troops tropical vegetable victory walrus wave winds wood yards
Passatges populars
Pàgina 271 - midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way...
Pàgina 201 - I would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polished manners and fine sense Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.
Pàgina 110 - Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried.
Pàgina 201 - Though graced with polished manners and fine sense (Yet wanting sensibility), the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path; But he that has humanity, forewarned, Will tread aside, and let the reptile live.
Pàgina 271 - There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast, — The desert and illimitable air, Lone wandering, but not lost.
Pàgina 124 - Some glossy-leaved, and shining in the sun, The maple, and the beech of oily nuts Prolific, and the lime at dewy eve Diffusing odours ; nor unnoted pass The sycamore, capricious in attire, Now green, now tawny, and ere autumn yet Have changed the woods, in scarlet honours bright.
Pàgina 64 - A heritage, it seems to me, A king might wish to hold in fee.
Pàgina 111 - By the struggling moonbeam's misty light And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet nor in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow.
Pàgina 124 - No tree in all the grove but has its charms, Though each its hue peculiar...
Pàgina 55 - I will be very frank with you. I was the last to consent to the separation; but the separation having been made, and having become inevitable, I have always said, as I say now, that I would be the first to meet the friendship of the United States as an independent power.