| Daniel Staniford - Elocution - 1817 - 256 pages
...3. Both went to work. While Naturt- was feeding her pine with plenty of nutritive juices, Educatitn passed a strong rope round its top, and pulling it...with all her force, fastened it to- the trunk of a neighbouring oak. The pine laboured to ascend, but not being able to surmount the obstacle, it pushed... | |
| John Aikin - Children's stories - 1819 - 186 pages
...to be at least as valuable as your pine. Both went to work. While Nature was feeding her pine with plenty of wholesome juices, Education passed a strong...with all her force, fastened it to the trunk of a neighbouring oak. The pine laboured to ascend, but not being abje to surmount the obstacle, it pushed... | |
| John Aikin, Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - Children's stories, English - 1839 - 398 pages
...under her care a crab-tree. " This," said she, " I will rear to be at least as valuable as your pine." of wholesome juices, Education passed a strong rope round its top, and pulling it downward with all its force, fastened it to the trunk of a neighbouring oak. The pine laboured to ascend,... | |
| George Moir Bussey - Fables - 1842 - 608 pages
...to be at least as valuable as your pine." Both went to work. While Nature was feeding her pine with plenty of wholesome juices, Education passed a strong...with all her force, fastened it to the trunk of a neighbouring oak. The pine laboured to ascend, but not being able to surmount the obstacle, it pushed... | |
| Charles Walton Sanders - Readers - 1841 - 264 pages
...valuable as youi pine." juices, Education passed a strong rope round its top, and pulung it downward with all her force, fastened it to the trunk of a neighboring oak. 6. The pine labored to ascend, but not being able to surmount the obstacle, it pushed out to one side,... | |
| John Aikin, Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - Animals - 1852 - 500 pages
...to be at least as valuable as your pine." Both went to work. While Nature was feeding her pine with plenty of wholesome juices, Education passed a strong...with all her force, fastened it to the trunk of a neighbouring oak. The pine laboured to ascend, but not being able to surmount the obstacle, it pushed... | |
| John Aikin - 1868 - 384 pages
...to be at least as valuable as your pine. Both went to work. While Nature was feeding her pine with plenty of wholesome juices, Education passed a strong...with all her force, fastened it to the trunk of a neighbouring oak. The pine laboured to ascend, but not being able to surmount the obstacle, it pushed... | |
| Education - 1870 - 394 pages
...will rear to be as valuable as your pine." Both went to work. While Nature was feeding her pine with plenty of wholesome juices, Education passed a strong rope round its top, and pulling it downward with all her force, fastened it to the trunk of a neighboring oak. The pine labored to ascend,... | |
| John Aikin, Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - Children's literature - 1869 - 530 pages
...to be at least as valuable as your pine." Both went to work. While Nature was feeding her pine with plenty of wholesome juices, Education passed a strong...with all her force, fastened it to the trunk of a neighbouring oak. The pine laboured to ascend, but not being able to surmount the obstacle, it pushed... | |
| Moffatt and Paige - 1880 - 296 pages
...straight and fine those firs -grow." (p. 50.) - Both went to work. While Nature was feeding her pine with plenty of wholesome juices, Education passed a strong...with all her force, fastened it to the trunk of a neighbouring oak. The pine laboured to ascend, but not being able to surmount the obstacle, it grew... | |
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