Report of the Secretary for Public Instruction ..., Volume 33

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Page 60 - Give a man this taste, and the means of gratifying it, and you can hardly fail of making him a happy man ; unless, indeed, you put into his hands a most perverse selection of books.
Page 99 - Say, Father Thames, for thou hast seen Full many a sprightly race Disporting on thy margent green The paths of pleasure trace; Who foremost now delight to cleave With pliant arm, thy glassy wave?
Page 110 - I saw the sea come after me as high as a great hill, and as furious as an enemy, which I had no means or strength to contend with...
Page 99 - All causes shall give way ; I am in blood Stepp'd in so far, that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er : Strange things I have in head, that will to hand ; Which must be acted, ere they may be scann'd.
Page 115 - If two triangles have two sides of the one equal to two sides of the...
Page 108 - To divide a given straight line into two parts, so that the rectangle contained by the whole, and one of the parts, may be equal to the square of the other part.
Page 99 - Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings leaned to virtue's side; But in his duty, prompt at every call, He watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all; And, as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-fledged offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reproved each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way.
Page 99 - twas all about," Young Peterkin, he cries ; And little Wilhelmine looks up With wonder- waiting eyes ; " Now tell us all about the war, And what they killed each other for."
Page 110 - Or shall we expect from time, the physician of brutes, a lingering and uncertain deliverance ? Shall we wait to be happy till we can forget that we are miserable, and owe to the weakness of our faculties a tranquillity •which ought to be the effect of their strength?
Page 99 - This to hear Would Desdemona seriously incline: But still the house affairs would draw her thence: Which ever as she could with haste dispatch, She'd come again, and with a greedy ear • Devour up my discourse: which I, observing, Took once a pliant hour, and found good means To draw from her a prayer of earnest heart That I would all my pilgrimage dilate...

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