The Kensington series of lesson books (ed. by J.W. Laurie). Primer, pt, Volume 6 |
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... wave of the sea . To reproach . Done at hazard , without settled aim ; not directed to a point . The Rev. Charles Wolfe was born in Dublin in 1791. He was educated at Winchester , and at Trinity College , Dublin , and obtained the ...
... wave of the sea . To reproach . Done at hazard , without settled aim ; not directed to a point . The Rev. Charles Wolfe was born in Dublin in 1791. He was educated at Winchester , and at Trinity College , Dublin , and obtained the ...
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... wave's crest , Seeking its peerless heritage- The fresh and fruitful West . It climbs New England's rocky steeps , As victor mounts a throne ; Niagara knows and greets the voice Still mightier than its own . It spreads where winter ...
... wave's crest , Seeking its peerless heritage- The fresh and fruitful West . It climbs New England's rocky steeps , As victor mounts a throne ; Niagara knows and greets the voice Still mightier than its own . It spreads where winter ...
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... wave is greatest where the ocean is freest and deepest . In the Southern Ocean the rate may be 1000 miles an hour ... wave , have scarcely any rise , for they are too small to form a tide wave of their own . Such is the case in the ...
... wave is greatest where the ocean is freest and deepest . In the Southern Ocean the rate may be 1000 miles an hour ... wave , have scarcely any rise , for they are too small to form a tide wave of their own . Such is the case in the ...
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... wave is constantly moving round the globe with unceasing regularity . The highest tides are caused when the sun and moon are in the same direction . These are called spring - tides . The low or neap tides occur when the sun and moon are ...
... wave is constantly moving round the globe with unceasing regularity . The highest tides are caused when the sun and moon are in the same direction . These are called spring - tides . The low or neap tides occur when the sun and moon are ...
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... wave What is the difference of effect caused by the wind waves and the tide wave ? Which is the most remarkable of the currents ? What effect has it on the climate ? Mention the causes of various currents . Trace the course of the Gulf ...
... wave What is the difference of effect caused by the wind waves and the tide wave ? Which is the most remarkable of the currents ? What effect has it on the climate ? Mention the causes of various currents . Trace the course of the Gulf ...
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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.