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Pàgina 72
... ment- -our world ; —————— all- -discoveries of science prove -to extend the most distant star- -nature- -no force itself ; it - but- which force- EXERCISE 36 . -space . manner Copy the following , supplying one word for each blank ...
... ment- -our world ; —————— all- -discoveries of science prove -to extend the most distant star- -nature- -no force itself ; it - but- which force- EXERCISE 36 . -space . manner Copy the following , supplying one word for each blank ...
Pàgina 84
... ment power -declare - immeasurable worth - books , forth - importance- -that great invention -over - whole - to gladden its myriads -invention printing added- -new ele- the race . especial sense , -brain - not- - that hour , a most -arm ...
... ment power -declare - immeasurable worth - books , forth - importance- -that great invention -over - whole - to gladden its myriads -invention printing added- -new ele- the race . especial sense , -brain - not- - that hour , a most -arm ...
Pàgina 102
... ment of many single or individual objects , according to s given rule . Method is the manner of this arrangemen the principle upon which this arrangement takes place . sciences must be reduced to system ; for without system th is no ...
... ment of many single or individual objects , according to s given rule . Method is the manner of this arrangemen the principle upon which this arrangement takes place . sciences must be reduced to system ; for without system th is no ...
Pàgina 106
... ment , Avocation . Business signifies what makes busy ; occupation signifi that which takes possession of a person or thing to th exclusion of other things ; employment signifies that whic engages or fixes a person ; engagement also ...
... ment , Avocation . Business signifies what makes busy ; occupation signifi that which takes possession of a person or thing to th exclusion of other things ; employment signifies that whic engages or fixes a person ; engagement also ...
Pàgina 111
... ment of the goods had been , owing to a rumor that freight rates would shortly be reduced . II . It was evident that he had endeavored to the controversy solely that he might profit by the- EXERCISE 93 . Event , Incident , Accident ...
... ment of the goods had been , owing to a rumor that freight rates would shortly be reduced . II . It was evident that he had endeavored to the controversy solely that he might profit by the- EXERCISE 93 . Event , Incident , Accident ...
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Pàgina 155 - I will give it to you in short, " for a word to the wise is enough," as poor Richard says. They joined in desiring him to speak his mind, and gathering round him, he proceeded as follows : Friends, says he, the taxes are indeed very heavy and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them, but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride and four times...
Pàgina 155 - I stopped my horse lately, where a great number of people were collected at an auction of merchants' goods. The hour of the sale not being come, they were conversing on the badness of the times ; and one of the company called to a plain, clean, old man, with white locks, " Pray, Father Abraham, what think you of the times? Will not these heavy taxes quite ruin the country ? How shall we ever be able to pay them? What would you advise us to?" Father Abraham stood up, and replied, "If you would have...
Pàgina 16 - There are three cases ; the nominative, the possessive, and the objective. The nominative case is that form or state of a noun or pronoun, which usually denotes the subject of a finite verb : as, The boy runs ; /run.
Pàgina 67 - ... sources of inexhaustible interest in all that surrounds it: in the objects of nature, the achievements of art, the imaginations of poetry, the incidents of history, the ways of mankind, past and present, and their prospects in the future. It is possible, indeed, to become indifferent to all this, and that too without having exhausted a thousandth part of it, but only when one has had from the beginning no moral or human interest in these things, and has sought in them only the gratification of...
Pàgina 150 - Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature ; they being both servants of his providence. Art is the perfection of nature. Were the world now as it was the sixth day, there were yet a chaos. Nature hath made one world, and art another. In brief, all things are artificial ; for nature is the art of God...
Pàgina 145 - Wal'r, my boy," replied the Captain, " in the Proverbs of Solomon you will find the following words, ' May we never want a friend in need, nor a bottle to give him !
Pàgina 152 - The every-day cares and duties, which men call drudgery, are the weights and counterpoises of the clock of time, giving its pendulum a true vibration, and its hands a regular motion ; and when they cease to hang upon the wheels, the pendulum no longer swings, the hands no longer move, the clock stands still.
Pàgina 155 - Many words won't fill a bushel, as Poor Richard says." They all joined, desiring him to speak his mind, and gathering round him, he proceeded as follows :— Friends, says he, and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay...
Pàgina 276 - On Self-Culture, Intellectual, Physical, and Moral. A vade mecum for young men and students. By JOHN STUART BLACKIE, professor of Greek in the University of Edinburgh. Printed in the Easy Reporting Style of Phonography in accordance with the Manual of Phonography by Benn Pitman and Jerome B.
Pàgina 11 - English nouns ending in o preceded by a consonant form their plurals by adding es...