The Kensington series of lesson books (ed. by J.W. Laurie). Primer, pt, Volum 6 |
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Pàgina 6
... seen Cochin - China , with all its unmapped islands , and the ancient Empire of Japan , with its cities and provinces unknown to Europe . It has heard the roar of a busy population amid the thousand streets of Pekin , and the wild dash ...
... seen Cochin - China , with all its unmapped islands , and the ancient Empire of Japan , with its cities and provinces unknown to Europe . It has heard the roar of a busy population amid the thousand streets of Pekin , and the wild dash ...
Pàgina 8
... seen floating in the river . What is meant by the red glare of Etna ? Etna , in Sicily , is a volcano or burning mountain . What is meant by the Seven - hilled City ? Rome ; because it is built on seven hills . What is meant by Dun ...
... seen floating in the river . What is meant by the red glare of Etna ? Etna , in Sicily , is a volcano or burning mountain . What is meant by the Seven - hilled City ? Rome ; because it is built on seven hills . What is meant by Dun ...
Pàgina 9
... seen . A supreme ruler . A disease by which the pa- tient is deprived , by a sud- den stroke , of sense and the power of motion . Skilful , clever ; literally , right handed . To bargain , to arrange for by agreement ; literally , to ...
... seen . A supreme ruler . A disease by which the pa- tient is deprived , by a sud- den stroke , of sense and the power of motion . Skilful , clever ; literally , right handed . To bargain , to arrange for by agreement ; literally , to ...
Pàgina 15
... seen , and Wolf had slunk behind his master , looking very much ashamed . Jack and Nelly , assisted by Frank , now began to search for their pets , and soon found three of the kittens- one behind the press , another on a shelf among the ...
... seen , and Wolf had slunk behind his master , looking very much ashamed . Jack and Nelly , assisted by Frank , now began to search for their pets , and soon found three of the kittens- one behind the press , another on a shelf among the ...
Pàgina 22
... seen the scarcely half- clothed form of the native Australian - the " black fellow , " who was at no distant period the sole inhabi- tant of the great southern land , and who ( like the Indian of the New World ) is gradually passing ...
... seen the scarcely half- clothed form of the native Australian - the " black fellow , " who was at no distant period the sole inhabi- tant of the great southern land , and who ( like the Indian of the New World ) is gradually passing ...
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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.