The Primary Reader: Designed for the Younger Reading Classes, in Common Schools in the United StatesRobins & Smith, 1844 |
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... brought , she led them into a little parlor , and bid them wait while she called Mrs. Morton . She returned in a few minutes to say , that they might go up into Ellen's room if they liked . So they followed her till they came to the ...
... brought , she led them into a little parlor , and bid them wait while she called Mrs. Morton . She returned in a few minutes to say , that they might go up into Ellen's room if they liked . So they followed her till they came to the ...
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... brought there in a day or two , and added , that she did not wish her to go there again . Susan did not like this very well ' , but for several days she did not venture near the house . At last , she thought she would just go in for a ...
... brought there in a day or two , and added , that she did not wish her to go there again . Susan did not like this very well ' , but for several days she did not venture near the house . At last , she thought she would just go in for a ...
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... brought no knife nor scissors . pay much respect to the flowers . She bent down the heads of the tall hollyhocks , and then if she could not break the stems , she left them drooping over . Some- times the flowers came off without any ...
... brought no knife nor scissors . pay much respect to the flowers . She bent down the heads of the tall hollyhocks , and then if she could not break the stems , she left them drooping over . Some- times the flowers came off without any ...
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... brought a lesson home to my heart . It is the abund- ance of God's blessings that makes us regardless of them . Because every breath is drawn without an ef- fort - because the light of morning constantly re- turns and fruits , flowers ...
... brought a lesson home to my heart . It is the abund- ance of God's blessings that makes us regardless of them . Because every breath is drawn without an ef- fort - because the light of morning constantly re- turns and fruits , flowers ...
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... brought against her for idleness , deceit , and other faults common to chil- dren . 66 Mary is not such a girl as you say she is , Susan ' , " replied the other little girl` ; " she has some faults , indeed , but you make her out to be ...
... brought against her for idleness , deceit , and other faults common to chil- dren . 66 Mary is not such a girl as you say she is , Susan ' , " replied the other little girl` ; " she has some faults , indeed , but you make her out to be ...
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Page 141 - And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shall not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
Page 141 - And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden ; and there he put the man whom he had formed. And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every, tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food ; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
Page 142 - The spacious firmament on high, With all the blue ethereal sky, And spangled heavens, a shining frame, Their great original proclaim. The unwearied sun, from day to day, Does his Creator's power display, And publishes to every land The work of an Almighty hand.
Page 139 - And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years...
Page 111 - GAY, guiltless pair, What seek ye from the fields of heaven ? Ye have no need of prayer, Ye have no sins to be forgiven. Why perch ye here, Where mortals to their Maker bend ? Can your pure spirits fear The God ye never could offend ? Ye never knew The crimes for which we come to weep. Penance is not for you, Blessed wanderers of the upper deep.
Page 142 - And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; and the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
Page 142 - And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
Page 139 - And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Page 112 - To chirp away a life of praise. Then spread each wing, Far, far above, o'er lakes and lands, And join the choirs that sing In yon blue dome not reared with hands. Or, if ye stay, To note the consecrated hour, Teach me the airy way, And let me try your envied power. Above the crowd, On upward wings could I but fly, I 'd bathe in yon bright cloud, And seek the stars that gem the sky.
Page 139 - And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind : and God saw that it was good.