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Page 54
... less about them . I have seen them of so large a species that in their growth , they totally destroyed the grass be- neath them , dividing the green ring into two , and leaving one of bare rich mould between them . The origin of these ...
... less about them . I have seen them of so large a species that in their growth , they totally destroyed the grass be- neath them , dividing the green ring into two , and leaving one of bare rich mould between them . The origin of these ...
Page 56
... the crowded market , and the revelling fair , not less than in the secret resorts of the thief , the adulterer , or the assassin . The incantations which invoke him most effectually are the songs and light 56 READING BOOK .
... the crowded market , and the revelling fair , not less than in the secret resorts of the thief , the adulterer , or the assassin . The incantations which invoke him most effectually are the songs and light 56 READING BOOK .
Page 69
... less . Our life may be divided , like the day of the insect , into three parts ; youth , or morning ; noon , or middle age , and evening , or old age . In youth , we get our education , and lay up those stores of knowledge , which are ...
... less . Our life may be divided , like the day of the insect , into three parts ; youth , or morning ; noon , or middle age , and evening , or old age . In youth , we get our education , and lay up those stores of knowledge , which are ...
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... less attended to and esteemed than it ought to be . Nor does this charge implicate only the neglect of children . Adults are still more negligent of cleanliness in themselves . During weeks and months , water touches no parts of many of ...
... less attended to and esteemed than it ought to be . Nor does this charge implicate only the neglect of children . Adults are still more negligent of cleanliness in themselves . During weeks and months , water touches no parts of many of ...
Page 74
... less per- nicious to tender animals ( and children are such ) than to plants . Not only the complexion , but the blood itself , which is the source of complexion loses much of its florid hue in miners , criminals confined in dark ...
... less per- nicious to tender animals ( and children are such ) than to plants . Not only the complexion , but the blood itself , which is the source of complexion loses much of its florid hue in miners , criminals confined in dark ...
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Page 78 - Falsely luxurious ! will not man awake ; And, springing from the bed of sloth, enjoy The cool, the fragrant, and the silent hour, To meditation due, and sacred song...
Page 138 - How much more than is necessary do we spend in sleep, forgetting that The sleeping Fox catches no Poultry, and that There will be sleeping enough in the Grave, as Poor Richard says.
Page 209 - Shoots into port at some well-havened isle, Where spices breathe and brighter seasons smile, There sits quiescent on the floods, that show Her beauteous form reflected clear below, While airs impregnated with incense play Around her, fanning light her streamers gay, So thou, with sails how swift, hast reached the shore 'Where tempests never beat nor billows roar,' And thy loved consort on the dangerous tide Of life long since has anchored by thy side.
Page 283 - And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the LORD : and he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.
Page 210 - My boast is not, that I deduce my birth From loins enthroned and rulers of the earth ; But higher far my proud pretensions rise — The son of parents passed into the skies ! And now, farewell.
Page 297 - How soft the music of those village bells, Falling at intervals upon the ear In cadence sweet, now dying all away, Now pealing loud again, and louder still, Clear and sonorous, as the gale comes on! With easy force it opens all the cells Where memory slept. Wherever I have heard A kindred melody, the scene recurs, And with it all its pleasures and its pains.
Page 156 - The other teaches me, that every grain of sand may harbour within it the tribes and the families of a busy population. The one told me of the insignificance of the world I tread upon. The other redeems it from all its insignificance ; for it tells me that in the leaves of every forest, and in the flowers of every garden, and in the waters of every rivulet, there are worlds teeming with life, and numberless as are the glories of the firmament.
Page 297 - THERE is in souls a sympathy with sounds, And as the mind is pitched the ear is pleased With melting airs or martial, brisk or grave, Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touched within us, and the heart replies.
Page 138 - He that riseth late must trot all Day, and shall scarce overtake his Business at Night; while Laziness travels so slowly, that Poverty soon overtakes him...
Page 115 - The SUN is but a spark of fire, A transient meteor in the sky ; The SOUL, immortal as its Sire, SHALL NEVER DIE.