The Kensington series of lesson books (ed. by J.W. Laurie). Primer, pt, Volume 6 |
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... PEACE abroad , AVOIDING CHANGES at home , and KEEPING POWER and place for himself . Any means would serve his ends , and he , according to the general habit of the day , freely employed bribery of all kinds , believing , or professing ...
... PEACE abroad , AVOIDING CHANGES at home , and KEEPING POWER and place for himself . Any means would serve his ends , and he , according to the general habit of the day , freely employed bribery of all kinds , believing , or professing ...
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... peace and avoiding changes ; but , against his convictions , he consented to a declaration of war against Spain in 1739. He thus lost his influence , and in 1742 he resigned his office and retired from public life . QUESTIONS . 1. On ...
... peace and avoiding changes ; but , against his convictions , he consented to a declaration of war against Spain in 1739. He thus lost his influence , and in 1742 he resigned his office and retired from public life . QUESTIONS . 1. On ...
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... Peace was restored at last , but not till puss and her kittens had vanished from the field of battle ; not a tail or a whisker was to be seen , and Wolf had slunk behind his master , looking very much ashamed . Jack and Nelly , assisted ...
... Peace was restored at last , but not till puss and her kittens had vanished from the field of battle ; not a tail or a whisker was to be seen , and Wolf had slunk behind his master , looking very much ashamed . Jack and Nelly , assisted ...
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... peace . Act of opposing or resisting ; resistance . Lowering , disgracing . Enmity . State of being supreme ; high- est authority or power . 5. The contest with Spain had been marked by no event of importance , but was soon merged in a ...
... peace . Act of opposing or resisting ; resistance . Lowering , disgracing . Enmity . State of being supreme ; high- est authority or power . 5. The contest with Spain had been marked by no event of importance , but was soon merged in a ...
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... peace signed in 1748 was but of short duration . Another terrible EUROPEAN WAR broke out in 1755 , but the brief interval itself was not undisturbed in its tranquillity . Both in the east and west resistance to French encroachments led ...
... peace signed in 1748 was but of short duration . Another terrible EUROPEAN WAR broke out in 1755 , but the brief interval itself was not undisturbed in its tranquillity . Both in the east and west resistance to French encroachments led ...
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Page 271 - midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way...
Page 201 - I would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polished manners and fine sense Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.
Page 110 - Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried.
Page 201 - Though graced with polished manners and fine sense (Yet wanting sensibility), the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path; But he that has humanity, forewarned, Will tread aside, and let the reptile live.
Page 271 - There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast, — The desert and illimitable air, Lone wandering, but not lost.
Page 124 - Some glossy-leaved, and shining in the sun, The maple, and the beech of oily nuts Prolific, and the lime at dewy eve Diffusing odours ; nor unnoted pass The sycamore, capricious in attire, Now green, now tawny, and ere autumn yet Have changed the woods, in scarlet honours bright.
Page 64 - A heritage, it seems to me, A king might wish to hold in fee.
Page 111 - By the struggling moonbeam's misty light And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet nor in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow.
Page 124 - No tree in all the grove but has its charms, Though each its hue peculiar...
Page 55 - I will be very frank with you. I was the last to consent to the separation; but the separation having been made, and having become inevitable, I have always said, as I say now, that I would be the first to meet the friendship of the United States as an independent power.