New Language Exercises for Primary Schools, Part 2Van Antwerp, Bragg, 1889 |
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ADVERBS Alice animals ants apples beautiful bird bird flies Blankets warm blanks brook brooklet called camel Charles Christian name clouds cold colors comber corn dandelion Describe dress duck eggs Exercise eyes feet Fido flowers following sentences following words Frank gather girl grass Grasshopper gray squirrel grow Harry head horse kind Kind of day kites kitten leaves legs Lesson 51.-The LETTER-WRITING lion little boy live mane morning mouse nest nouns picture represent plant play plural form poem pretty pupils rain red squirrel river shines sing snow soft spend sponge squirrel stanza story teach summer tail Teacher.-What Tell thorax trees truthful studious walk warm weather wind window wings winter wolf Write a description Write a letter Write answers Write sentences containing Write the names Write the story Write three sentences young
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Page 34 - A man of kindness to his beast is kind; But brutal actions show a brutal mind. Remember, he who made thee, made the brute; Who gave thee speech and reason, formed him mute; He can't complain; but God's omniscient eye Beholds thy cruelty; he hears his cry. He was designed thy servant and thy drudge; But KNOW that HIS Creator is THY Judge.
Page 83 - Come, little leaves," said the wind one day. " Come o'er the meadows with me, and play; Put on your dress of red and gold, — Summer is gone, and the days grow cold. " Soon as the leaves heard the wind's loud call, Down they came fluttering, one and all ; Over the brown fields they danced and flew, Singing the soft little songs they knew.
Page 48 - Dear Grandma, I will try to write A very little letter: If I don't spell the words all right, Why, next time I'll do better.
Page 83 - Dancing and whirling, the little leaves went : Winter had called them, and they were content. Soon fast asleep in their earthy beds, The snow laid a coverlet over their heads.
Page 83 - Cricket, good-by, we've been friends so long, Little brook, sing us your farewell song ; Say you are sorry to see us go ; Ah, you will miss us, right well we know. " Dear little lambs in your fleecy fold, Mother will keep you from harm and cold ; Fondly we watched you in vale and glade, Say, will you dream of our loving shade?
Page 17 - Dare to be honest, good and sincere, Dare to please God, and you never need fear. Dare to be brave in the cause of the right, Dare with the enemy ever to fight. Dare to be loving and patient each day, Dare speak the truth, whatever you say. Dare to be gentle and orderly too, Dare shun the evil, whatever you do. Dare to speak kindly, and ever be true, Dare to do right, and you'll find your...
Page 38 - THAT'S HOW." After a great snow-storm, a little fellow began to shovel a path through a large snow-bank before his grandmother's door. He had nothing but a small shovel to work with. " How do you expect to get through that drift ? " asked a man passing along. "By keeping at it,
Page 36 - There came to my window, One morning in spring, A sweet little robin, She came there to sing ; And the tune that she sung Was prettier far Than ever I heard On the flute or guitar.
Page 41 - On the grass in the meadow a little boy lay, With his face turned up to the sky, And he watched the clouds as far away They lazily floated by. "I love you, clouds...
Page 36 - She raised her light wings, To soar far away, Then resting a moment Seemed sweetly to say, Oh happy, how happy This world seems to be, Awake little girl, And be happy with me.