A New Spelling BookLongmans, Green, 1919 - 104 pages |
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Page 102
... Young Soldiers of France , " to the Atlantic Monthly ; of Winifred M. Letts , from " The Spires of Oxford , " to E. P. Dutton & Co. 66 NOTE Suggestions to Teachers , Dictionary Lessons , etc. , to be found at the back of the complete ...
... Young Soldiers of France , " to the Atlantic Monthly ; of Winifred M. Letts , from " The Spires of Oxford , " to E. P. Dutton & Co. 66 NOTE Suggestions to Teachers , Dictionary Lessons , etc. , to be found at the back of the complete ...
Page 117
... young Cratchits . " Hur- rah ! There's such a goose , Martha . " 66 ' Why bless your heart alive , my dear , how late you are , " said Mrs. Cratchit , kissing her a dozen times , and taking off her shawl and bonnet for her with ...
... young Cratchits . " Hur- rah ! There's such a goose , Martha . " 66 ' Why bless your heart alive , my dear , how late you are , " said Mrs. Cratchit , kissing her a dozen times , and taking off her shawl and bonnet for her with ...
Page 119
... young gentlemen would crouch together in the cold and delight themselves with idle talk . But the essence of this bliss was to walk by yourself in the black night , the slide shut , the top - coat buttoned , not a ray escaping , a mere ...
... young gentlemen would crouch together in the cold and delight themselves with idle talk . But the essence of this bliss was to walk by yourself in the black night , the slide shut , the top - coat buttoned , not a ray escaping , a mere ...
Page 142
... loath bacon loathe beacon refer offer trial empire trail umpire proceed through precede thorough Use each of these words in a sentence . 9 One is sometimes asked by young people to recommend 142 EIGHTH YEAR - FIRST HALF.
... loath bacon loathe beacon refer offer trial empire trail umpire proceed through precede thorough Use each of these words in a sentence . 9 One is sometimes asked by young people to recommend 142 EIGHTH YEAR - FIRST HALF.
Page 143
Georgia Alexander. 9 One is sometimes asked by young people to recommend a course of reading . My advice would be that they should confine them- selves to the supreme books in whatever literature , or still better to choose some one ...
Georgia Alexander. 9 One is sometimes asked by young people to recommend a course of reading . My advice would be that they should confine them- selves to the supreme books in whatever literature , or still better to choose some one ...
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Popular passages
Page 113 - New occasions teach new duties : Time makes ancient good uncouth ; They must upward still, and onward, who would keep abreast of Truth ; Lo, before us gleam her camp-fires ! we ourselves must Pilgrims be, Launch our Mayflower, and steer boldly through the desperate winter sea. Nor attempt the Future's portal with the Past's blood-rusted key.
Page 150 - Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; He hath loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword: His truth is marching on.
Page 167 - For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be; Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rained a ghastly dew From the nations...
Page 206 - MY GARDEN A GARDEN is a lovesome thing, God wot! Rose plot, Fringed pool, Ferned grot — The veriest school Of peace; and yet the fool Contends that God is not — Not God! in gardens! when the eve is cool? Nay, but I have a sign: Tis very sure God walks in mine.
Page 154 - Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts: The warrior's name would be a name abhorred!
Page 151 - Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote: For him her Old- World moulds aside she threw, And choosing sweet clay from the breast Of the unexhausted West, With stuff untainted shaped a hero new, Wise, steadfast in the strength of God, and true.
Page 117 - Here's Martha, mother!' cried the two young Cratchits. 'Hurrah! There's such a goose, Martha!' 'Why, bless your heart alive, my dear, how late you are!' said Mrs Cratchit, kissing her a dozen times, and taking off her shawl and bonnet for her with officious zeal. 'We'da deal of work to finish up last night,' replied the girl, 'and had to clear away this morning, mother.
Page 173 - Ah! when shall all men's good Be each man's rule, and universal Peace Lie like a shaft of light across the land, And like a lane of beams athwart the sea, Thro' all the circle of the golden year?
Page 193 - Anthony, she should be mistress of orthodoxy, that she might not misspell and mispronounce words so shamefully as girls usually do; and likewise, that she might reprehend the true meaning of what she is saying.
Page 123 - All true work is sacred; in all true work, were it but true hand-labor, there is something of divineness. Labor, wide as the earth, has its summit in heaven.