Story Hour Readings, Book 7American Book, 1921 |
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... lived was not solid at all , but a mere bank of fog . " The Great Spirit , " said he , " thrust his finger into the bank of fog and 13 The Story of Iron The Wonderful Artisan Charlemagne and Roland Keeping the Bridge Orison Swett Marden.
... lived was not solid at all , but a mere bank of fog . " The Great Spirit , " said he , " thrust his finger into the bank of fog and 13 The Story of Iron The Wonderful Artisan Charlemagne and Roland Keeping the Bridge Orison Swett Marden.
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... lived in Iceland a man whose name was Audun . His means were small , but every- body knew of his goodness . In order to see the world and to add to his wealth , he once sailed to Greenland with a sea s captain named Thorir . Before he ...
... lived in Iceland a man whose name was Audun . His means were small , but every- body knew of his goodness . In order to see the world and to add to his wealth , he once sailed to Greenland with a sea s captain named Thorir . Before he ...
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... lived within its walls a man named Dædalus ( děd'a - lus ) , who was the most skillful worker in wood and stone and metal that had ever been known . It was he who taught s the people how to build better houses and how to hang their ...
... lived within its walls a man named Dædalus ( děd'a - lus ) , who was the most skillful worker in wood and stone and metal that had ever been known . It was he who taught s the people how to build better houses and how to hang their ...
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... lived in those days among the hills of Crete a 10 terrible monster called the Minotaur ( min'ō - tôr ) , the like of which has never been seen from that time until now . This creature , it was said , had the body of a man but the face ...
... lived in those days among the hills of Crete a 10 terrible monster called the Minotaur ( min'ō - tôr ) , the like of which has never been seen from that time until now . This creature , it was said , had the body of a man but the face ...
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... lived for many years , but he never did any great work nor built anything half so marvelous as the Labyrinth of Crete . And the sea in which poor Icarus was drowned was called forever afterward by his name , the Icarian Sea . waves ...
... lived for many years , but he never did any great work nor built anything half so marvelous as the Labyrinth of Crete . And the sea in which poor Icarus was drowned was called forever afterward by his name , the Icarian Sea . waves ...
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Page 190 - 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 339 - 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 319 - An hour passed on — the Turk awoke; That bright dream was his last; He woke — to hear his sentries shriek, "To arms! they come! the Greek! the Greek!
Page 341 - 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 206 - 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 331 - WARREN'S ADDRESS AT THE BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL BY JOHN PIERPONT QTAND! the ground's your own, my braves! ^ Will ye give it up to slaves?
Page 332 - He is an American, who leaving behind him all his ancient prejudices and manners, receives new ones from the new mode of life he has embraced, the new government he obeys, and the new rank he holds. He becomes an American by being received in the broad lap of our great Alma Mater. Here individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men, whose labors and posterity will one day cause great changes in the world.
Page 355 - Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No ! Men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued, In forest, brake or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude ; Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain, — These constitute a State ; And sovereign law, that State's collected will, • O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing...
Page 409 - The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade.
Page 194 - ANNOUNCED by all the trumpets of the sky, Arrives the snow, and, driving o'er the fields, Seems nowhere to alight: the whited air Hides hills and woods, the river, and the heaven, And veils the farm-house 'at the garden's end. The sled and traveller stopped, the courier's feet Delayed, all friends shut out, the housemates sit Around the radiant fireplace, enclosed In a tumultuous privacy of storm.