The world at home, a new ser. of geographical readers. 6 standards. [With] Home lesson book. Standard 3-5 |
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Anglesey Atlantic Ocean Beachy beautiful Birmingham boat brave Bristol Channel Britain British Islands built called cape Cardigan Bay castle Cheshire chief coal coal-fields Cornwall cotton Cumberland district Dover DUBLIN Durham east Eddystone EDINBURGH England and Wales English Channel EXERCISE.-Draw a Map feet flows forests George's Channel Goodwin Sands granite Hampshire harbour height Hills Holyhead House Humber hundred im-port-ant Ireland Irish Sea iron Isle of Wight Kent King lakes Lancashire land Land's End largest life-boat light light-house light-ship Liverpool Lizard Point London Lowestoft Ness manufacture Menai Strait Mersey miles mouth North Channel North Sea o'er Pennine Chain Plain Plymouth port Queen railway rivers rocks Romans round sailors Scilly Isles Scotland seen ships shires shores Snowdon Solway Firth Southampton Spurn Head Square is 100 stone storm Suffolk SUMMARY.-The Thames thousand tide towns trees vessels Wash waves Welsh wild Windermere wool wrecked Yorkshire
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Page 55 - The spirits of your fathers Shall start from every wave ! — For the deck it was their field of fame, And Ocean was their grave...
Page 97 - And gleaming and streaming and steaming and beaming, And rushing and flushing and brushing and gushing, And flapping and rapping and clapping and slapping.
Page 54 - YE Mariners of England That guard our native seas, Whose flag has braved, a thousand years, The battle and the breeze — Your glorious standard launch again To match another foe ! And sweep through the deep, While the stormy winds do blow, — While the battle rages loud and long, And the stormy winds do blow.
Page 55 - While the stormy winds do blow; While the battle rages loud and long, And the stormy winds do blow. Britannia needs no bulwarks, No towers along the steep; Her march is o'er the mountain-waves, Her home is on the deep.
Page 157 - MID pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home!
Page 55 - Our song and feast shall flow To the fame of your name, When the storm has ceased to blow; When the fiery fight is heard no more, And the storm has ceased to blow.
Page 134 - O'er all the pleasant land! The deer across their greensward bound Through shade and sunny gleam ; And the swan glides past them with the sound Of some rejoicing stream. The merry homes of England! Around their hearths by night What gladsome looks of household love Meet in the ruddy light! There woman's voice flows forth in song, Or childhood's tale is told ; Or lips move tunefully along Some glorious page of old.
Page 30 - Toll for the brave! The brave that are no more! All sunk beneath the wave, Fast by their native shore ! Eight hundred of the brave, Whose courage well was tried, Had made the vessel heel, And laid her on her side. A land-breeze shook the shrouds, And she was overset; Down went the Royal George, With all her crew complete.
Page 31 - It was not in the battle; No tempest gave the shock ; She sprang no fatal leak, She ran upon no rock.
Page 96 - And hitting and splitting, And shining and twining, And rattling and battling, And shaking and quaking, And pouring and roaring, And waving and raving, And tossing and crossing, And flowing and going, And running and stunning, And foaming and roaming, And dinning and spinning.