The Grammar School Speller and Definer: Embracing Graded Lessons in Spelling, Definitions, Pronunciation, and Synonymes [sic], Proper Names and Geographical Terms, a Choice Selection of Sentences for Dictation, and a Condensed Study of English EtymologyCatholic Publication Society Company, 1877 - 225 pàgines |
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The Grammar School Speller and Definer: Embracing Graded Lessons in Spelling ... E. D. Farrell Visualització completa - 1877 |
The Grammar School Speller and Definer: Embracing Graded Lessons in Spelling ... Edward D Farrell Previsualització no disponible - 2016 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 204 - It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore and to see ships tossed upon the sea; a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below; but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of truth (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene), and to see the errors and wanderings and mists and tempests in the vale below; so always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride.
Pàgina 148 - Merciful heaven! What, man! ne'er pull your hat upon your brows; Give sorrow words: the grief that does not speak Whispers the o'erfraught heart, and bids it break.
Pàgina 209 - But, where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered...
Pàgina 211 - The accusing spirit, which flew up to heaven's chancery with the oath, blushed as he gave it in ; and the recording angel, as he wrote it down, dropped a tear upon the word, and blotted it out for ever.
Pàgina 213 - I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Pàgina 207 - Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue : but if you mouth it, as many of our players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines.
Pàgina 213 - Those joyous hours are past away ; And many a heart, that then was gay, Within the tomb now darkly dwells, And hears no more those evening bells. And so 'twill be when I am gone ; That tuneful peal will still ring on, While other bards shall walk these dells, And...
Pàgina 215 - The chest contrived a double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day; The pictures placed for ornament and use, The twelve good rules...
Pàgina 198 - Let him, who desires to see others happy, make haste to give while his gift can be enjoyed ; and remember, that every moment of delay takes away something from the value of his benefaction. And let him who proposes his own happiness reflect, that while he forms his purpose, the day rolls on, and " the night cometh, when no man can work.
Pàgina 161 - Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.