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... wrote the exercises in Leverett's Latin Tutor , upon the conjugations and declensions . It is justice to myself , however , to state , that this plan of teaching Latin , was not exactly according to my own ideal ; but was adopted ...
... wrote the exercises in Leverett's Latin Tutor , upon the conjugations and declensions . It is justice to myself , however , to state , that this plan of teaching Latin , was not exactly according to my own ideal ; but was adopted ...
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... wrote this ? said Mr. Alcott . Mr. Henry Ware . What is it ? Lines to a child going to his father . Where was the child's father ? In France . What does Mr. Ware say to the child ? They read the successive periods . When they had ...
... wrote this ? said Mr. Alcott . Mr. Henry Ware . What is it ? Lines to a child going to his father . Where was the child's father ? In France . What does Mr. Ware say to the child ? They read the successive periods . When they had ...
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... wrote one section , and one wrote five by one o'clock ; some wrote two . At one , they took their Latin grammars to learn the prepositions by heart . Mr. Alcott meanwhile gave to the rest of the scholars arithmetic les- sons , and they ...
... wrote one section , and one wrote five by one o'clock ; some wrote two . At one , they took their Latin grammars to learn the prepositions by heart . Mr. Alcott meanwhile gave to the rest of the scholars arithmetic les- sons , and they ...
Page 106
... wrote till ten o'clock . And then Mr. Alcott read about Christian - how he came to the Cross and his Burden fell off into the sepulchre ; and he said Mr. Alcott told of a procession , and proposed that they should all go in it , and ...
... wrote till ten o'clock . And then Mr. Alcott read about Christian - how he came to the Cross and his Burden fell off into the sepulchre ; and he said Mr. Alcott told of a procession , and proposed that they should all go in it , and ...
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... wrote this ode , many years , and consequently had felt changes , and he expresses this in the lines I am about to read . He then began and read the first stanza . There was a time when meadow , grove and stream , The earth and every ...
... wrote this ode , many years , and consequently had felt changes , and he expresses this in the lines I am about to read . He then began and read the first stanza . There was a time when meadow , grove and stream , The earth and every ...
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Page 111 - Flag of the free heart's hope and home, By angel hands to valor given ! Thy stars have lit the welkin dome, And all thy hues were born in heaven. Forever float that standard sheet ! Where breathes the foe but falls before us, With Freedom's soil beneath our feet, And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us ? JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE.
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Page 86 - It was that Mary which anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.
Page 41 - And he said, Thou hast asked a hard thing ; nevertheless, if thou see me when I am taken from thee, it shall be so unto thee ; but if not, it shall not be so.
Page 111 - Sweeps darkly round the bellied sail, And frighted waves rush wildly back Before the broadside's reeling rack, Each dying wanderer of the sea Shall look at once to heaven and thee, And smile to see thy splendors fly In triumph o'er his closing eye.
Page 190 - And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him: 17 And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
Page 190 - Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be baptized of him. But John forbade him, saying, I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me? And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now; for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness.
Page 107 - The Rainbow comes and goes, And lovely is the Rose ; The Moon doth with delight Look round her when the heavens are bare ; Waters on a starry night Are beautiful and fair ; The Sunshine is a glorious birth ; But yet I know, where'er I go, That there hath passed away a glory from the earth.