Spoken English: A Method of Improving Speech and Reading by Studying Voice Conditions and Modulations in Union with Their Causes in Thinking and FeelingExpression Company, 1913 - 320 pages |
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... thought best to call a meeting of all the crows in the country , far and near , to see if some plan could not be hit upon by which the dangerous thing could be gotten rid of . The meeting was held in a corn - field . Such a cawing and ...
... thought best to call a meeting of all the crows in the country , far and near , to see if some plan could not be hit upon by which the dangerous thing could be gotten rid of . The meeting was held in a corn - field . Such a cawing and ...
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... thought something wrong in my ear . Then I called little Dempster , and asked if he heard , " Oh , yes ! " he replied ; " it's the pussy - cat bird . " The pussy - cat bird has the blackest of bills , With which she makes all her ...
... thought something wrong in my ear . Then I called little Dempster , and asked if he heard , " Oh , yes ! " he replied ; " it's the pussy - cat bird . " The pussy - cat bird has the blackest of bills , With which she makes all her ...
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... thoughts and lives of other men . If you have known the bluebird very well the word awak- ens all your memories , so that you see and hear the bird as if it were before you . You can hear , at the word " brook , " the gentle ripple ...
... thoughts and lives of other men . If you have known the bluebird very well the word awak- ens all your memories , so that you see and hear the bird as if it were before you . You can hear , at the word " brook , " the gentle ripple ...
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... thought . The development of feeling is very important . We should be able not only to define objects but to enjoy them . True observation of nature really brings thinking and feeling together . There are , of course , some kinds of ...
... thought . The development of feeling is very important . We should be able not only to define objects but to enjoy them . True observation of nature really brings thinking and feeling together . There are , of course , some kinds of ...
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... thought that heaven has sent . " " Far in the Woods in May . " Edith M. Thomas We are all born with an instinct which makes us feel the life of every little creature around us . This causes us to see things , not as dead or meaningless ...
... thought that heaven has sent . " " Far in the Woods in May . " Edith M. Thomas We are all born with an instinct which makes us feel the life of every little creature around us . This causes us to see things , not as dead or meaningless ...
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Page 96 - Man is his own star; and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light, all influence, all fate; Nothing to him falls early or too late. Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.
Page 102 - O May I Join The Choir Invisible! O may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence...
Page 194 - Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God: and his flesh came again like unto the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.
Page 263 - In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born, across the sea, With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me: As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, While God is marching on.
Page 143 - If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions : I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Page 171 - You friendly Earth, how far do you go, With the wheat-fields that nod and the rivers that flow, With cities and gardens, and cliffs and isles, And people upon you for thousands of miles?
Page 82 - Sail on! Sail on! Sail on! and on!'" They sailed and sailed, as winds might blow, Until at last the blanched mate said: "Why, now not even God would know Should I and all my men fall dead. These very winds forget their way, For God from these dread seas is gone. Now speak, brave Adm'r'l; speak and say — " He said: "Sail on! Sail on! and on!
Page 254 - Storm'd at with shot and shell, Boldly they rode and well, Into the jaws of Death, Into the mouth of Hell, Rode the six hundred. Flashed all their sabres bare, Flashed as they turned in air, Sab'ring the gunners there...
Page 262 - Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword: His truth is marching on.
Page 312 - But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up steadfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and. Jesus standing on the right hand of God...