Reading book. New code, 1981. Standard 1, 4-6 |
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... known in this country two hundred years ago . We have accounts of breakfasts in Queen Elizabeth's reign , at which beef - steaks and ale were provided for her maids of honour . Even as late as the year 1661 , an Englishman of a very ...
... known in this country two hundred years ago . We have accounts of breakfasts in Queen Elizabeth's reign , at which beef - steaks and ale were provided for her maids of honour . Even as late as the year 1661 , an Englishman of a very ...
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... known in Holland and in Portugal than in our island . It seems that the Dutch introduced tea into Europe , and that it was first brought to London from Amster- dam . The marriage of Charles II . with a princess of Portugal was the ...
... known in Holland and in Portugal than in our island . It seems that the Dutch introduced tea into Europe , and that it was first brought to London from Amster- dam . The marriage of Charles II . with a princess of Portugal was the ...
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... known that most of the black and green teas brought yearly from China to Europe are obtained from exactly the same plants . There are several different kinds of scented flowers grown in particular districts by the Chinese for the ...
... known that most of the black and green teas brought yearly from China to Europe are obtained from exactly the same plants . There are several different kinds of scented flowers grown in particular districts by the Chinese for the ...
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... known to inhabit the following places : South of Spain , Africa , East Indies ; Isles of Seychelles , Bourbon , Mauritius , the Moluccas , and Madagascar ; and Fernando Po , in the Gulf of Guinea . The length of the common sort of ...
... known to inhabit the following places : South of Spain , Africa , East Indies ; Isles of Seychelles , Bourbon , Mauritius , the Moluccas , and Madagascar ; and Fernando Po , in the Gulf of Guinea . The length of the common sort of ...
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... known is , however , its power of changing the apparent colour of its skin . The design of this , most probably , is to enable it to conceal itself , both from the insects which are to be its prey , and from enemies which might attack ...
... known is , however , its power of changing the apparent colour of its skin . The design of this , most probably , is to enable it to conceal itself , both from the insects which are to be its prey , and from enemies which might attack ...
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Page 313 - Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state, With daring aims irregularly great. Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by...
Page 307 - Hoards after hoards his rising raptures fill, Yet still he sighs, for hoards are wanting still : Thus to my breast alternate passions rise, Pleased with each good that Heaven to man supplies ; Yet oft a sigh prevails, and sorrows fall, To see the hoard of human bliss so small ; And oft I wish, amidst the scene, to find Some spot to real happiness...
Page 307 - But where to find that happiest spot below Who can direct, when all pretend to know? The shuddering tenant of the frigid zone Boldly proclaims that happiest spot his own; Extols the treasures of his stormy seas, And his long nights of revelry and ease: The naked negro, panting at the Line, Boasts of his golden sands and palmy wine, Basks in the glare, or stems the tepid wave, And thanks his> gods for all the good they gave.
Page 311 - Clings close and closer to the mother's breast, So the loud torrent and the whirlwind's roar But bind him to his native mountains more. Such are the charms to barren states assign'd; Their wants but few, their wishes all confin'd.
Page 301 - Tis filled wherever thou dost tread, Nature's self's thy Ganymede. Thou dost drink, and dance, and sing, Happier than the happiest king! All the fields which thou dost see, All the plants belong to thee ; All that summer hours produce, Fertile made with early juice. Man for thee does sow and plough; Farmer he, and landlord thou!
Page 305 - REMOTE, unfriended, melancholy, slow, Or by the lazy Scheld or wandering Po ; Or onward, where the rude Carinthian boor Against the houseless stranger shuts the door ; Or where Campania's plain forsaken lies, A weary waste expanding to the skies ; Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see, My heart untravell'd fondly turns to thee ; Still to my brother turns, with ceaseless pain, And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.
Page 270 - Bound on a voyage of awful length And dangers little known, A stranger to superior strength, Man vainly trusts his own. But oars alone can ne'er prevail To reach the distant coast, The breath of heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.
Page 316 - How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure! Still to ourselves in every place consign'd, Our own felicity we make or find : * With secret course, which no loud storms annoy, Glides the smooth current of domestic joy. The lifted axe, the agonizing wheel, Luke's iron crown, and Damien's bed of steel, To men remote from power but rarely known, Leave reason, faith, and conscience, all our own.
Page 269 - WEAK and irresolute is man ; The purpose of to-day, Woven with pains into his plan, To-morrow rends away. The bow well bent and smart the spring, Vice seems already slain, But passion rudely snaps the string, And it revives again.
Page 315 - Gave wealth to sway the mind with double force. Have we not seen, round Britain's peopled shore, Her useful sons exchanged for useless ore?