My Awkward Cousin, Or, Caroline's Visit to Her Great-aunt's Poultry YardAmerican Sunday-School Union, 1848 - 107 pàgines |
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Pàgina 36
... wild goose , or the wild duck , is no more awkward or foolish than the pigeon or the hen , whose pretty ways we so much admire . They are well worth ob- serving before civilization has changed their habits . In particular , it is ...
... wild goose , or the wild duck , is no more awkward or foolish than the pigeon or the hen , whose pretty ways we so much admire . They are well worth ob- serving before civilization has changed their habits . In particular , it is ...
Pàgina 47
... wild geese avoid places where ice and frost reign , and go to pass the winter at the south . The crossing of the seas has no terrors for them . Joined together , to the number of fifty or sixty , they seem to try their wings before they ...
... wild geese avoid places where ice and frost reign , and go to pass the winter at the south . The crossing of the seas has no terrors for them . Joined together , to the number of fifty or sixty , they seem to try their wings before they ...
Pàgina 48
... wild , half - tamed geese do exactly the contrary , for they go to pass the worst season in places that are inhabited ; is it not so , Augustus ? " " Yes , mother , on the banks of the Don , for example , the geese kept by the people of ...
... wild , half - tamed geese do exactly the contrary , for they go to pass the worst season in places that are inhabited ; is it not so , Augustus ? " " Yes , mother , on the banks of the Don , for example , the geese kept by the people of ...
Pàgina 50
... wild geese it requires the greatest skill not to startle them . But we hardly think of their attaining that continued vigilance , by which the goose can be made a sure and faithful watch - keeper , but rather yield to the idea that ...
... wild geese it requires the greatest skill not to startle them . But we hardly think of their attaining that continued vigilance , by which the goose can be made a sure and faithful watch - keeper , but rather yield to the idea that ...
Pàgina 75
... wild turkey , when pursued by the hunter's dogs , is an easy prey . At first , he runs away very swiftly , and goes to perch himself upon a tree . Once there , he does not think of stirring , and the hunter , who stations himself at the ...
... wild turkey , when pursued by the hunter's dogs , is an easy prey . At first , he runs away very swiftly , and goes to perch himself upon a tree . Once there , he does not think of stirring , and the hunter , who stations himself at the ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 105 - Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.
Pàgina 3 - The works of the Lord are great, sought out of all them that have pleasure therein.
Pàgina 104 - And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy ; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour : and this was my portion of all my labour.
Pàgina 4 - Congress, in the year 1851, by the AMERICAN SUNDAY-SCHOOL UNION, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. 4S* No books are published by the AMERICAN SUNDAY-SCHOOL UNION without the sanction of the Committee of Publication, consisting of fourteen members, from the following denominations of Christians, viz.
Pàgina 105 - And I turned myself to behold wisdom and madness and folly; for what can the man do that cometh after the king? Even that which hath been already done. Then I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth darkness.
Pàgina 28 - Hurdy staggered from the spot, feeling his throat as he went, and turning his head first to one side and then to the other, to see if it was not dislocated.
Pàgina 68 - I hardly listened to a word that was said, and as soon as I could get away, I ran up to my room.