The Child's Instructor: Consisting of Easy Lessons for Children ...Samuel Marks, 1817 - 103 pages |
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... walk on the foot pavement . Go in the yard and spin your top there . 6. Can you play ball ? here is a ball for you ; toss it up . This is a very good ball ; I bought it for a very good boy ; see how it will bound . Can you catch the ...
... walk on the foot pavement . Go in the yard and spin your top there . 6. Can you play ball ? here is a ball for you ; toss it up . This is a very good ball ; I bought it for a very good boy ; see how it will bound . Can you catch the ...
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... walk with . Come let us walk to the fields , and see the sheep , and the lambs , and cows , and calves , and birds , and trees . 3. Did you see that horse gallopping along ? The manrides on the horse . There is a little dog . The dog ...
... walk with . Come let us walk to the fields , and see the sheep , and the lambs , and cows , and calves , and birds , and trees . 3. Did you see that horse gallopping along ? The manrides on the horse . There is a little dog . The dog ...
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... walk with your cane , and shoot with your gun , and eat your gingerbrerd : but you must not eat it all , give some to sister Sally . 11. Look here , Charles , here is money : What is that yellow piece ? This is gold ; it is a guinea ...
... walk with your cane , and shoot with your gun , and eat your gingerbrerd : but you must not eat it all , give some to sister Sally . 11. Look here , Charles , here is money : What is that yellow piece ? This is gold ; it is a guinea ...
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... pleasant . Now Charles may walk out in the field . The air is sweet . The lambs are playing about on the grass , among the sweet flowers . The trees are full of blossoms and the birds sing . Pretty birds , sing for 28 CHILD'S INSTRUCTOR .
... pleasant . Now Charles may walk out in the field . The air is sweet . The lambs are playing about on the grass , among the sweet flowers . The trees are full of blossoms and the birds sing . Pretty birds , sing for 28 CHILD'S INSTRUCTOR .
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... walk out to see the farmer mow the grass . Grass will make hay . How sweet the new hay smells ! O it is very hot . Well , so much the better : You must make hay while the sun shines . 9. July is the hottest month . You must go un- der ...
... walk out to see the farmer mow the grass . Grass will make hay . How sweet the new hay smells ! O it is very hot . Well , so much the better : You must make hay while the sun shines . 9. July is the hottest month . You must go un- der ...
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Page 96 - The world recedes — it disappears ; Heaven opens on my eyes; my ears With sounds seraphic ring: Lend, lend your wings! I mount, I fly! O Grave! where is thy victory? O Death ! where is thy sting...
Page 36 - Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me.
Page 90 - Business; but to these we must add Frugality, if we would make our Industry more certainly successful. A Man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his Nose all his Life to the Grindstone, and die not worth a Groat at last. A fat Kitchen makes a lean Will, as Poor Richard says; and Many Estates are spent in the Getting, Since Women for Tea forsook Spinning and Knitting, And Men for Punch forsook Hewing and Splitting.
Page 58 - Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth ; and from thy face shall I be hid ; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth ; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.
Page 93 - LET dogs delight to bark and bite, For God hath made them so; Let bears and lions growl and fight, For 'tis their nature too. But, children, you should never let Such angry passions rise ; Your little hands were never made To tear each other's eyes.
Page 70 - Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungered, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee? Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me. And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.
Page 101 - I have found out a gift for my fair; I have found where the wood-pigeons breed; But let me that plunder forbear, She will say 'twas a barbarous deed...
Page 66 - No flocks that range the valley free, To slaughter I condemn: Taught by that Power that pities me, I learn to pity them : "But from the mountain's grassy side A guiltless feast I bring; A scrip with herbs and fruits supplied, And water from the spring. "Then, pilgrim, turn, thy cares forego ; All earth-born cares are wrong; Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long.
Page 37 - Then were there brought unto him little children, that he should put his hands on them, and pray: and the disciples rebuked them. But Jesus said, "Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven." And he laid his hands on them, and departed thence.
Page 41 - FROM all that dwell below the skies Let the Creator's praise arise : Let the Redeemer's name be sung Through every land, by every tongue. 2 Eternal .are thy mercies, Lord ; Eternal truth attends thy word ; Thy praise shall sound from shore to shore, Till suns shall rise and set no more.