The Primary Reader: Designed for the Younger Reading Classes, in Common Schools in the United StatesRobins & Smith, 1844 |
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... 49 23 Meddlesome Matty , Jane Taylor . 50 24 To a Robin , Miss Gould . 53 25 A Morning in Spring , - The Daisy . 54 34 A Child's Evening Prayer , Coleridge . 65 CONTENTS . ix 42 Advice from a Bee , 43 viii CONTENTS .
... 49 23 Meddlesome Matty , Jane Taylor . 50 24 To a Robin , Miss Gould . 53 25 A Morning in Spring , - The Daisy . 54 34 A Child's Evening Prayer , Coleridge . 65 CONTENTS . ix 42 Advice from a Bee , 43 viii CONTENTS .
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... , when there was a vacation in his school , he went into the country to spend it with his aunt . The first morning he was there , his aunt asked Lesson Dangerous things, Little white Chicken, My first School Book Same Lesson.
... , when there was a vacation in his school , he went into the country to spend it with his aunt . The first morning he was there , his aunt asked Lesson Dangerous things, Little white Chicken, My first School Book Same Lesson.
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... morning he was there , his aunt asked him if he would like to go out into the yard , and give the chickens their breakfast . George was very much pleased with feeding them ' ; and every morning after , he rose early , and carried out to ...
... morning he was there , his aunt asked him if he would like to go out into the yard , and give the chickens their breakfast . George was very much pleased with feeding them ' ; and every morning after , he rose early , and carried out to ...
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... morning about the sun , while it was shining there so brightly . E. You don't think the sun shines brighter there than any where else do you ' ? J. It seemed so to me , although I knew it did not . E. I suppose it was because the song ...
... morning about the sun , while it was shining there so brightly . E. You don't think the sun shines brighter there than any where else do you ' ? J. It seemed so to me , although I knew it did not . E. I suppose it was because the song ...
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... morning when the dew is on the grass , and you , my little reader ' , still dreaming in bed , James is up and away to the field . He works hard all day ; sometimes the sun is very hot , and he grows tired , but nobody ever heard him say ...
... morning when the dew is on the grass , and you , my little reader ' , still dreaming in bed , James is up and away to the field . He works hard all day ; sometimes the sun is very hot , and he grows tired , but nobody ever heard him say ...
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Page 141 - And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shall not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
Page 141 - And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden ; and there he put the man whom he had formed. And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every, tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food ; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
Page 142 - The spacious firmament on high, With all the blue ethereal sky, And spangled heavens, a shining frame, Their great original proclaim. The unwearied sun, from day to day, Does his Creator's power display, And publishes to every land The work of an Almighty hand.
Page 139 - And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years...
Page 111 - GAY, guiltless pair, What seek ye from the fields of heaven ? Ye have no need of prayer, Ye have no sins to be forgiven. Why perch ye here, Where mortals to their Maker bend ? Can your pure spirits fear The God ye never could offend ? Ye never knew The crimes for which we come to weep. Penance is not for you, Blessed wanderers of the upper deep.
Page 142 - And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; and the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
Page 142 - And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
Page 139 - And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Page 112 - To chirp away a life of praise. Then spread each wing, Far, far above, o'er lakes and lands, And join the choirs that sing In yon blue dome not reared with hands. Or, if ye stay, To note the consecrated hour, Teach me the airy way, And let me try your envied power. Above the crowd, On upward wings could I but fly, I 'd bathe in yon bright cloud, And seek the stars that gem the sky.
Page 139 - And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind : and God saw that it was good.