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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 edition. Excerpt: ...caverns; mountains rear To heaven their bald and blacken'd cliffs, and bow Their tall heads to the plain; and empires rise, Gathering the strength of hoary centuries, And rush down, like the Alpine avalanche, Startling the nations; and the very stars, Yon bright and glorious blazonry of God, Glitter awhile in their eternal depths, And, like the Pleiad, loveliest of their train, Shoot from their glorious spheres, and pass away To darkle in the trackless void; yet Time, Time, the tomb-builder, holds his fierce career, Dark, stern, all pitiless, and pauses not Amid the mighty wrecks that strew his path, To sit and muse, like other conquerors, Upon the fearful ruin he hath wrought. Geo. D. Prentice. EXERCISE. Write equivalent expressions for the following: 1. 'Tis the kuell of the departed year. 2. No funeral train is sweeping past. 3. And breathe in mournful cadences. 4. It waved its scepter o'er the beautiful, And they are not. 5. And the tearful wail Of stricken ones is heard, where erst the song And reckless shout resounded. 6. The strength of serried hosts is shivered. 7. It heralded its millions to their home In the dim land of dreams. 8. And bathe his plumage in the thunder's home. 9. Fiery isles spring blazing from the ocean. 10. And pass away to darkle in the trackless void. LESSON 77. TRUTH AND TRUTHFULNESS. ONE of the rarest powers possessed by man is the power to state a fact. It seems a very simple thing to tell the truth, but, beyond all question, there is nothing half so easy as lying. To comprehend a fact in its exact length, breadth, relations, and significance, and to state it in language that shall represent it with exact fidelity, are the work of a mind singularly gifted, finely balanced, and thoroughly practiced in that special...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 edition. Excerpt: ...caverns; mountains rear To heaven their bald and blacken'd cliffs, and bow Their tall heads to the plain; and empires rise, Gathering the strength of hoary centuries, And rush down, like the Alpine avalanche, Startling the nations; and the very stars, Yon bright and glorious blazonry of God, Glitter awhile in their eternal depths, And, like the Pleiad, loveliest of their train, Shoot from their glorious spheres, and pass away To darkle in the trackless void; yet Time, Time, the tomb-builder, holds his fierce career, Dark, stern, all pitiless, and pauses not Amid the mighty wrecks that strew his path, To sit and muse, like other conquerors, Upon the fearful ruin he hath wrought. Geo. D. Prentice. EXERCISE. Write equivalent expressions for the following: 1. 'Tis the kuell of the departed year. 2. No funeral train is sweeping past. 3. And breathe in mournful cadences. 4. It waved its scepter o'er the beautiful, And they are not. 5. And the tearful wail Of stricken ones is heard, where erst the song And reckless shout resounded. 6. The strength of serried hosts is shivered. 7. It heralded its millions to their home In the dim land of dreams. 8. And bathe his plumage in the thunder's home. 9. Fiery isles spring blazing from the ocean. 10. And pass away to darkle in the trackless void. LESSON 77. TRUTH AND TRUTHFULNESS. ONE of the rarest powers possessed by man is the power to state a fact. It seems a very simple thing to tell the truth, but, beyond all question, there is nothing half so easy as lying. To comprehend a fact in its exact length, breadth, relations, and significance, and to state it in language that shall represent it with exact fidelity, are the work of a mind singularly gifted, finely balanced, and thoroughly practiced in that special...
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