The District School Reader, Or, Exercises in Reading and Speaking: Designed for the Highest Class in Public and Private SchoolsThomas, Cowperthwait & Company, 1848 - 484 pages |
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Page 31
... we thus walk among the ruins of the past , a sad feeling of insecurity comes over us ; and that feeling is by no means diminished when we arrive at home . If we turn to our friends , we can hardly speak to them DISTRICT SCHOOL READER . 31.
... we thus walk among the ruins of the past , a sad feeling of insecurity comes over us ; and that feeling is by no means diminished when we arrive at home . If we turn to our friends , we can hardly speak to them DISTRICT SCHOOL READER . 31.
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... turning to our contemporaries and kindred . We know that the forms which are breathing around us are as short- lived and fleeting as those were which have been dust for centuries . The sensation of vanity , uncertainty , and ruin , is ...
... turning to our contemporaries and kindred . We know that the forms which are breathing around us are as short- lived and fleeting as those were which have been dust for centuries . The sensation of vanity , uncertainty , and ruin , is ...
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... turn , and what can we rely ? Can no support be offered ? can no source of confidence be named ? O , yes ! there is one Being , to whom we can look with a perfect conviction of finding that security which nothing about us can give , and ...
... turn , and what can we rely ? Can no support be offered ? can no source of confidence be named ? O , yes ! there is one Being , to whom we can look with a perfect conviction of finding that security which nothing about us can give , and ...
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... we have looked on every object to which we could turn our anxious eyes , and they have all told us that they could give us no hope nor support , because they were so feeble themselves , - we can look to the 34 DISTRICT SCHOOL READER .
... we have looked on every object to which we could turn our anxious eyes , and they have all told us that they could give us no hope nor support , because they were so feeble themselves , - we can look to the 34 DISTRICT SCHOOL READER .
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... turn this world into a Paradise ; but it shrinks from the toil , the privations , and the sacrifices , which must be endured long after the thrilling impulse of charity has subsided , by him who would be a faithful laborer in the noble ...
... turn this world into a Paradise ; but it shrinks from the toil , the privations , and the sacrifices , which must be endured long after the thrilling impulse of charity has subsided , by him who would be a faithful laborer in the noble ...
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