Laurie's Graduated series of reading lesson books, Book 6 |
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... existence ? The end of nature has been answered : his faculties have done that which they were created to do , not languidly occupied upon trifles - not enervated by sensual gratification , but exercised in that toil which is so ...
... existence ? The end of nature has been answered : his faculties have done that which they were created to do , not languidly occupied upon trifles - not enervated by sensual gratification , but exercised in that toil which is so ...
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... existence , are to form themselves into harmony and wisdom , and show forth the same wisdom to others that exist along with them . To such a man , high life , as it is called , will be a province of human life certainly , but nothing ...
... existence , are to form themselves into harmony and wisdom , and show forth the same wisdom to others that exist along with them . To such a man , high life , as it is called , will be a province of human life certainly , but nothing ...
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... existence I have enjoyed known to the whole universe ! every one would wish to procure for himself a similar lot , peace would reign upon the earth , man would no longer think of injuring his fellows , and the wicked would no longer be ...
... existence I have enjoyed known to the whole universe ! every one would wish to procure for himself a similar lot , peace would reign upon the earth , man would no longer think of injuring his fellows , and the wicked would no longer be ...
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... existence ? To him every relation of life affords a prolific idea of duty ; by pursuing which into all its practical consequences , he becomes a good servant or a good master , a good subject or a good sove- reign , a good son or a good ...
... existence ? To him every relation of life affords a prolific idea of duty ; by pursuing which into all its practical consequences , he becomes a good servant or a good master , a good subject or a good sove- reign , a good son or a good ...
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... existence . These and similar facts have been collected , methodised , and are ripe for use . Such results , which form , as it were , the anatomy of a nation , are remarkable for their minuteness ; and to them there have been joined ...
... existence . These and similar facts have been collected , methodised , and are ripe for use . Such results , which form , as it were , the anatomy of a nation , are remarkable for their minuteness ; and to them there have been joined ...
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Page 28 - To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core; To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells With a sweet kernel; to set budding more, And still more, later flowers for the bees, Until they think warm days will never cease ; For Summer has o'erbrimm'd their clammy cells.
Page 99 - Will I upon thy party wear this rose: And here I prophesy, — This brawl to-day, Grown to this faction, in the Temple garden, Shall send, between the red rose and the white, A thousand souls to death and deadly night.
Page 28 - Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they? Think not of them, thou hast thy music too, While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day, And touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue; Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn Among the river sallows, borne aloft Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies; And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn; Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft The redbreast whistles from a garden-croft, And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.
Page 12 - That time of year thou mayst in me behold, When yellow leaves, or none or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruined choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.
Page 20 - If thou be one whose heart the holy forms Of young imagination have kept pure, Stranger! henceforth be warned; and know, that pride, Howe'er disguised in its own majesty, Is littleness; that he, who feels contempt For any living thing, hath faculties Which he has never used; that thought with him Is in its infancy.
Page 3 - With them I take delight in weal, And seek relief in woe ; And, while I understand and feel How much to them I owe, My cheeks have often been bedew'd With tears of thoughtful gratitude.
Page 12 - In me. thou see'st the twilight of such day As after sunset fadeth in the west ; Which by and by black night doth take away, Death's second self, that seals up all in rest. In me thou see'st the glowing of such fire That on the ashes of his youth doth lie, As the death-bed whereon it must expire, Consumed with that which it was nourish'd by.
Page 2 - Leave to enjoy myself. That place, that does Contain my books, the best companions, is To me a glorious court, where hourly I Converse with the old sages and philosophers ; And sometimes for variety I confer With kings and emperors, and weigh their counsels ; Calling their victories, if unjustly got, Unto a strict account ; and in my fancy, Deface their ill-placed statues.
Page 271 - There is a river in the ocean. In the severest droughts it never fails, and in the mightiest floods it never overflows. Its banks and its bottom are of cold water, while its current is of warm. The Gulf of Mexico is its fountain, and its mouth is in the Arctic Seas. It is the Gulf-stream. There is in the world no other such majestic flow of waters. Its current is more rapid than the Mississippi or the Amazon, and its volume more than a thousand times greater.
Page 3 - My hopes are with the Dead ; anon My place with them will be, And I with them shall travel on Through all Futurity ; Yet leaving here a name, I trust, That will not perish in the dust.