A Reader for the First - Eighth Grades

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Page 42 - I pray thee, then, Write me as one who loves his fellow-men." The angel wrote and vanish'd. The next night It came again with a great wakening light, And show'd the names whom love of God had bless'd, And lo! Ben Adhem's name led all the rest. •—LEIGH HUNT.
Page 243 - Wait on the Lord, and be of good cheer, and He shall strengthen thy heart; wait, I say, on the Lord." It is impossible to express the comfort this gave me. In answer I thankfully laid down the Book, and was no more sad, at least, not on that occasion.
Page 245 - fitness, that I might be assured it was my own foot. But when I came to the place, first, it appeared evidently to me, that when I laid up my boat I could not possibly be on shore anywhere thereabout; secondly, when I came to measure the mark with my own foot, I found my foot
Page 240 - the other way. I considered that the devil might have found out abundance of other ways to have terrified me than this of the single print of a foot. That as I lived quite on the other side of the island, he would never have been so .simple as to leave a mark
Page 142 - upon some bending planks That lean against a streamlet's rushy banks, And watch intently Nature's gentle doings: They will be found softer than ringdove's cooings. How silent comes the water round that bend! Not the minutest whisper does it send To the o'erhanging
Page 258 - Not more than I should, I assure you. But the bond you mention happens to be just the worst security you could offer me—for I might live to a hundred and never see the principal. CHARLES. Oh, yes, you would! the moment Sir Oliver dies, you know, you would come on me for the money.
Page 255 - Caesar was a title assumed by later Roman emperors.—ren'ovated : made over. "While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; And when Rome falls—the world.
Page 257 - OLIVER. Sir, I like you the better for it. 'However, you are mistaken in one thing; I have no money to lend, but I believe I could procure some of a friend; but then he's an unconscionable dog. Isn't he, Moses ? And must sell stock to accommodate you. Mustn't he, Moses 1
Page 260 - the plague, have you no feeling for your own kindred? Do you take me for Shylock in the play, that you would raise money of me on your own flesh and blood? CHARLES. Nay, my little broker, don't be angry: what need you care, if you have your money's worth? SIR
Page 135 - of his superior had taught the scout the virtue of obedience. Throwing a last and lingering glance at the distant canoes, he laid aside his rifle, and relieving the wearied Duncan, resumed the paddle, which he wielded with sinews that never tired. His efforts were seconded by those of the Mohicans, and a very few

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