Category: books
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McGuffey’s Second Eclectic Reader by William Holmes McGuffey Lesson 40: The Little Harebell
Words: Lesson:‘Tell me, little harebell,Are you lonely here.Blooming in the shadowOn this rock so drear?’‘Clinging to this bit of earth,As if in mid-air,With your sweet face turned to me,Looking strangely fair?’‘Lady’ said the harebell,Nodding low its head,‘Though this spot seem dreary,Thought the sunlight’s fled. ‘Know that I’m not lonely That I ne’er despair. God is…
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McGuffey’s Second Eclectic Reader by William Holmes McGuffey Lesson 39: The Bear and the Children
Words: Lesson:1. In the parlor of an inn in a small town, sat a man who had been going about with a bear. He was waiting for his supper, and the bear was tied up in the yard. 2. Up in the attic, three little children were playing together. The eldest might have been six…
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McGuffey’s Second Eclectic Reader by William Holmes McGuffey: The New Scales
Lesson 38: The New Scales Words: Lesson:
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THE TRUE STORY OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS CALLED THE GREAT ADMIRAL
Elbridge S. Brooks’ “The True Story of Christopher Columbus” depicts Columbus’s ambition, challenges, and achievements, inspiring young readers through his exploration and perseverance.
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CHAPTER III. HOW COLUMBUS GAINED A QUEEN FOR HIS FRIEND.
When you wish very much to do a certain thing it is dreadfully hard to be patient; it is harder still to have to wait. Columbus had to do both. The wars against the Moors were of much greater interest to the king and queen of Spain than was the finding of a new and…
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CHAPTER II. WHAT PEOPLE THOUGHT OF THE IDEA.
I do not wish you to think that Columbus was the first man to say that the earth was round, or the first to sail to the West over the Atlantic Ocean. He was not. Other men had said that they believed the earth was round; other men had sailed out into the Atlantic Ocean.…
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CHAPTER I. BOY WITH AN IDEA.
Men who do great things are men we all like to read about. This is the story of Christopher Columbus, the man who discovered America. He lived four hundred years ago. When he was a little boy he lived in Genoa. It was a beautiful city in the northwestern part of the country called Italy.…
