A Drill Book in EnglishAllyn and Bacon, 1891 - 106 pages |
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... reasons for the corrections made are formally stated . As several grammatical terms are used with various meanings in different text - books , the following definitions are given , in order to show in what sense they are to be ...
... reasons for the corrections made are formally stated . As several grammatical terms are used with various meanings in different text - books , the following definitions are given , in order to show in what sense they are to be ...
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... reason , would he skip and play ? pleased to the last , he crops the flowery food , and licks the hand just raised to shed his blood . o blindness to the future ! kindly given , that each may fill the circle marked by heaven ; who sees ...
... reason , would he skip and play ? pleased to the last , he crops the flowery food , and licks the hand just raised to shed his blood . o blindness to the future ! kindly given , that each may fill the circle marked by heaven ; who sees ...
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... bland assimilation incor- porated into politics the sentiments which beau- tify and soften private society are to be dissolved by this new conquering empire of light and reason . all the decent drapery of life is to PUNCTUATION . 31.
... bland assimilation incor- porated into politics the sentiments which beau- tify and soften private society are to be dissolved by this new conquering empire of light and reason . all the decent drapery of life is to PUNCTUATION . 31.
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reason . all the decent drapery of life is to be rudely torn off . all the superadded ideas fur- nished from the wardrobe of a moral imagina- tion which the heart owns and the understanding ratifies as necessary to cover the defects of ...
reason . all the decent drapery of life is to be rudely torn off . all the superadded ideas fur- nished from the wardrobe of a moral imagina- tion which the heart owns and the understanding ratifies as necessary to cover the defects of ...
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... reason to fear death listen do you hear that hollow noise beneath ye tis the wind driving by the vessel tis the poor thing herself said the affected coxswain giving her last groans the water is breaking upon her decks and in a few ...
... reason to fear death listen do you hear that hollow noise beneath ye tis the wind driving by the vessel tis the poor thing herself said the affected coxswain giving her last groans the water is breaking upon her decks and in a few ...
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Page 30 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision.
Page 30 - Never, never more, shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom. The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone...
Page 33 - There have been spectacles more dazzling to the eye, more gorgeous with jewellery and cloth of gold, more attractive to grown-up children, than that which was then exhibited at Westminster ; but, perhaps, there never was a spectacle so well calculated to strike a highly cultivated, a reflecting, an imaginative mind.
Page 30 - ... little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honour and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone!
Page 14 - and Floy, come close to me, and let me see you ! " Sister and brother wound their arms around each other, and the golden light came streaming in, and fell upon them, locked together. " How fast the river runs, between its green banks and the rushes, Floy ! But it's very near the sea. I hear the waves ! They always said so f " Presently he told her that the motion of the boat upon the stream was lulling him to rest.
Page 16 - Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutored mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind: His soul, proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or Milky Way...
Page 34 - The long galleries were crowded by an audience such as has rarely excited the fears or the emulation of an orator.
Page 14 - He put his hands together, as he had been used to do at his prayers. He did not remove his arms to do it; but they saw him fold them so, behind her neck. "Mama is like you, Floy. I know her by the face! But tell them that the print upon the stairs at school is not divine enough. The light about the head is shining on me as I go!
Page 16 - Who sees with equal eye , as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst , and now a world.
Page 16 - Hope humbly then ; with trembling pinions soar ; Wait the great teacher Death ; and God adore. What future bliss, he gives not thee to know, But gives that Hope to be thy blessing now. Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never Is, but always To be blest: The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.