Cobb's New North American Reader, Or, Fifth Reading Book: Containing Great Variety of Interesting, Historical, Moral, and Instructive Reading Lessons in Prose and Poetry from Highly Esteemed American and English Writers, in which All the Words in the First Reading Lesson Not Contained in Any Reading Lesson in the Juvenile Readers Or in the Sequel, and All New Words in Each Subsequent Reading Lesson Throughout the Book, are Placed Before it as a Spelling Lesson, with the Division, Pronunciation, Accentuation, Both Primary and Secondary Accent, and Definition Noted, and the Part of Speech Designated : Designed for the Use of the Highest Classes in Schools and Academies, and to Impress the Minds of Youth with Sentiments of Virtue and Religion : Also, Rules and Observations on the Principles of Good Reading, Improved by the Addition of a Number of Lessons

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Stran 405 - And they told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said unto them : and when he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob, their father, revived: and Israel said, It is enough: Joseph, my son, is yet alive : I will go and see him before I
Stran 186 - narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head And we far away on the billow. Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him, But nothing he'll reck if they let him sleep on, In the grave where a Briton has laid him.
Stran 404 - For these two years hath the famine been in the land ; and yet there are five years, in which there shall neither be earing nor harvest. And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance. 6.
Stran 206 - 5. The hills, Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun ; the vales, Stretching in pensive quietness between ; The venerable woods; rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows green ; and poured round all, Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste
Stran 205 - Thanatopsis. 1. To him who in the love of nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language ; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides
Stran 206 - resting-place Shalt thou retire alone ; nor couldst thou wish Couch more magnificent. Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world, with kings, The powerful of the earth ; the wise, the good, Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre.
Stran 205 - Thy image. 3. Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim Thy growth, to be resolved to earth again; And, lost each human trace, surrendering up Thine individual being, shalt thou go To mix for ever with the elements, To be a brother to the insensible rock And to the sluggish clod, which the rude swain Turns with his share, and treads upon.
Stran 316 - 10. Still one thing more, fellow-citizens; a wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another; shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement; and shall not take from
Stran 423 - America. 1. The Muse, disgusted at an age and clime Barren of every glorious theme, In distant lands now waits a better time, Producing subjects worthy fame. 2. In happy climes, where from the genial sun And virgin earth such scenes ensue, The force of art by nature seems outdone, And fancied
Stran 70 - The Bucket. 1. How dear to this heart are the scenes of my childhood, When fond recollection presents them to view! The wide-spreading- pond, and the mill which stood by it The bridge, and the rock where the cataract fell; The

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