The first (-third, fifth, sixth) reading book, by T. Crampton and T. Turner, Volume 3Thomas Crampton 1858 |
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... Prince Maurice had been presented by a Dutchman with an instrument by which distant objects were made to appear near . The maker of this in- strument was John Lippershay , but whether he or his fellow - townsman Zacharias Jansen ( both ...
... Prince Maurice had been presented by a Dutchman with an instrument by which distant objects were made to appear near . The maker of this in- strument was John Lippershay , but whether he or his fellow - townsman Zacharias Jansen ( both ...
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... prince had all the disposition to make his will the rule for his ministers and parliament ; but as he lacked the ability of his predecessors , the nation submitted very unwillingly to his efforts to maintain and extend the power of the ...
... prince had all the disposition to make his will the rule for his ministers and parliament ; but as he lacked the ability of his predecessors , the nation submitted very unwillingly to his efforts to maintain and extend the power of the ...
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... Prince William of Orange to become their champion and sovereign , he finally abandoned a cause that he had not the power to understand or control , and fled , leaving the throne to his son - in - law and rival , William of Orange . The ...
... Prince William of Orange to become their champion and sovereign , he finally abandoned a cause that he had not the power to understand or control , and fled , leaving the throne to his son - in - law and rival , William of Orange . The ...
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... prince of English philosophers and the honours to which he attained . Suffice it here to say that he held the office of President of the Royal Society in 1703 , and was knighted by Queen Anne in 1705. He also held the post of Master of ...
... prince of English philosophers and the honours to which he attained . Suffice it here to say that he held the office of President of the Royal Society in 1703 , and was knighted by Queen Anne in 1705. He also held the post of Master of ...
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... ; while the Britons lacked the unity and military skill which alone would have enabled them successfully to resist these fierce attacks . In this difficulty , a British prince , Vortigern , HOW OUR COUNTRY BECAME ENGLAND . 61.
... ; while the Britons lacked the unity and military skill which alone would have enabled them successfully to resist these fierce attacks . In this difficulty , a British prince , Vortigern , HOW OUR COUNTRY BECAME ENGLAND . 61.
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Page 102 - I come from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden sally And sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley. By thirty hills I hurry down, Or slip between the ridges, By twenty thorps, a little town, And half a hundred bridges.
Page 189 - The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands, And the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands.
Page 102 - I chatter over stony ways, In little sharps and trebles, I bubble into eddying bays, I babble on the pebbles. With many a curve my banks I fret By many a field and fallow, And many a fairy foreland set With willow-weed and mallow. I chatter, chatter, as I flow To join the brimming river ; For men may come and men may go, But I go on forever.
Page 41 - THE OLD FAMILIAR FACES. I HAVE had playmates, I have had companions, In my days of childhood, in my joyful school-days, All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. I have been laughing, I have been carousing, Drinking late, sitting late, with my bosom cronies, All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.
Page 176 - THERE came to the beach a poor Exile of Erin, The dew on his thin robe was heavy and chill : For his country he sigh'd, when at twilight repairing To wander alone by the wind-beaten hill. But the day-star attracted his eye's sad devotion, For it rose o'er his own native isle of the ocean, Where once, in the fire of his youthful emotion, He sang the bold anthem of Erin go bragh. Sad is my fate...
Page 29 - I COME, I come ! ye have called me long, I come o'er the mountains with light and song ! Ye may trace my step o'er the wakening earth, By the winds which tell of the violet's birth, By the primrose-stars in the shadowy grass, By the green leaves, opening as I pass.
Page 41 - I loved a love once, fairest among women; Closed are her doors on me, I must not see her— All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. I have a friend, a kinder friend has no man : Like an ingrate, I left my friend abruptly; Left him to muse on the old familiar faces.
Page 114 - Play on, play on ; I am with you there, In the midst of your merry ring ; I can feel the thrill of the daring jump, And the rush of the breathless swing. I hide with you in the fragrant hay, And I whoop the smothered call, And my feet slip up on the seedy floor, And I care not for the fall.
Page 124 - THE MEN OF OLD. I KNOW not that the men of old Were better than men now, Of heart more kind, of hand more bold, Of more ingenuous brow : I heed not those who pine for force A ghost of Time to raise, As if they thus could check the course Of these appointed days.
Page 220 - Lo, yonder doth Earl Douglas come, His men in armour bright ; Full twenty hundred Scottish spears All marching in our sight ; All men of pleasant Teviotdale, Fast by the river Tweed...