The American First Class Book, Or, Exercises in Reading and Recitation: Selected Principally from Modern Authors of Great Britain and America, and Designed for the Use of the Highest Class in Publick and Private Schools |
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... eyes indeed cannot yet see him , but all things which you see , are so many marks of his power , and presence , and he is nearer to you , than any thing which you can see . Take him for your Lord , and Father , and Friend ; look up unto ...
... eyes indeed cannot yet see him , but all things which you see , are so many marks of his power , and presence , and he is nearer to you , than any thing which you can see . Take him for your Lord , and Father , and Friend ; look up unto ...
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... eyes were dazzled with the splen- dour of the light ; and the face of nature presented to his view a perfect paradise . The jail in which he had been imprisoned , stood at some distance from Pekin , and to that city he directed his ...
... eyes were dazzled with the splen- dour of the light ; and the face of nature presented to his view a perfect paradise . The jail in which he had been imprisoned , stood at some distance from Pekin , and to that city he directed his ...
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... eye of the painter and the poet , and to seize those " happy attitudes of things " which their taste at first selected ... eyes , myriads of happy beings crowd upon our view . " The insect youth are on the wing . ' Swarms of new - born ...
... eye of the painter and the poet , and to seize those " happy attitudes of things " which their taste at first selected ... eyes , myriads of happy beings crowd upon our view . " The insect youth are on the wing . ' Swarms of new - born ...
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... eyes , and they have all told us that they could give us no hope nor support , because they were so feeble themselves ; we can look to the throne of God : change and decay have never reached that ; the revolution of ages has never moved ...
... eyes , and they have all told us that they could give us no hope nor support , because they were so feeble themselves ; we can look to the throne of God : change and decay have never reached that ; the revolution of ages has never moved ...
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... eyes towards the setting sun . It was only the night before that he had heard his mother was ill , and could survive but a day or two . He had lived nearly apart from society , and , being a lad of a thoughtful , dreamy mind , had made ...
... eyes towards the setting sun . It was only the night before that he had heard his mother was ill , and could survive but a day or two . He had lived nearly apart from society , and , being a lad of a thoughtful , dreamy mind , had made ...
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