Story Hour Readings: Fourth yearAmerican Book Company, 1921 - 367 pages |
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... Elbert Hubbard John Esten Cooke 218 224 Opportunity Edward Rowland Sill 227 Boy Wanted John Littlejohn The Discontented Pendulum Dr. Frank Crane 228 Charles Mackay 230 232 Two Sides to Every Question . If I were a 8 CONTENTS.
... Elbert Hubbard John Esten Cooke 218 224 Opportunity Edward Rowland Sill 227 Boy Wanted John Littlejohn The Discontented Pendulum Dr. Frank Crane 228 Charles Mackay 230 232 Two Sides to Every Question . If I were a 8 CONTENTS.
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... Sides to Every Question . If I were a Boy The Lesson of the Water Mill A Motto of Oxford Sailing and Failing Use and Abuse of Time . Hidden Treasure The Solitary Reaper PAGE 235 Washington Gladden 237 Sarah Doudney 239 241 Hamillon W ...
... Sides to Every Question . If I were a Boy The Lesson of the Water Mill A Motto of Oxford Sailing and Failing Use and Abuse of Time . Hidden Treasure The Solitary Reaper PAGE 235 Washington Gladden 237 Sarah Doudney 239 241 Hamillon W ...
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... side 5 on which it stood over the broad expanse of the noble river . Rich meadows , waving fields of grain , and the herds and flocks contentedly grazing on the pasture lands testified to the thrift and prosperity of Ali Hafed . The ...
... side 5 on which it stood over the broad expanse of the noble river . Rich meadows , waving fields of grain , and the herds and flocks contentedly grazing on the pasture lands testified to the thrift and prosperity of Ali Hafed . The ...
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... side to side , thinking , planning , scheming , how he could secure some diamonds . The demon of discontent had entered his soul , and the blessings and advantages which he possessed in such abundance seemed as by some malicious magic ...
... side to side , thinking , planning , scheming , how he could secure some diamonds . The demon of discontent had entered his soul , and the blessings and advantages which he possessed in such abundance seemed as by some malicious magic ...
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... side had a golden hilt and a two- edged blade inlaid with a cross of gold that glittered like the lightning of heaven . His shoes , from the knee to the tip of the toe , were embossed with gold worth three hundred cattle ; and his ...
... side had a golden hilt and a two- edged blade inlaid with a cross of gold that glittered like the lightning of heaven . His shoes , from the knee to the tip of the toe , were embossed with gold worth three hundred cattle ; and his ...
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Page 168 - TO A WATERFOWL Whither, midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way? Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along.
Page 278 - We thought as we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow.
Page 105 - For you bouquets and ribbon'd wreaths— for you the shores a-crowding, For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning; Here Captain! dear father! This arm beneath your head! It is some dream that on the deck, You've fallen cold and dead.
Page 319 - Ask yourselves how this gracious reception of our petition comports with those warlike preparations which cover our waters and darken our land. Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation?
Page 300 - But to the hero, when his sword Has won the battle for the free Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word, And in its hollow tones are heard The thanks of millions yet to be.
Page 299 - And heard, with voice as trumpet loud, Bozzaris cheer his band: "Strike ! till the last armed foe expires ! Strike ! for your altars and your fires ! Strike ! for the green graves of your sires ; God, and your native land...
Page 335 - WHAT CONSTITUTES A STATE? BY WILLIAM JONES "1 T 7"HAT constitutes a State ? * * Not high-raised battlement or labored mound, Thick wall or moated gate ; Not cities proud with spires and turrets crowned ; • Not bays and broad-armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride ; Not starred 'and spangled courts, Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No : — men, high-minded men...
Page 321 - There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations; and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us.
Page 184 - His going forth is from the end of the heaven, And his circuit unto the ends of it : And there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.
Page 311 - WARREN'S ADDRESS AT THE BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL BY JOHN PIERPONT OTAND! the ground's your own, my braves! ^ Will ye give it up to slaves?