Wednesday, March 14, 2012
The Advanced Reader/Google Books
Title The Advanced Reader(middle school and up)
Nelson's School Series
Publisher T. Nelson and Sons, 1866
Length 400 pages
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Page 9:
PLEASURES OF KNOWLEDGE.
It is Noble to seek Truth, and it is Beautiful to find it. It is the ancient feeling of the human heart, that knowledge is better than riches; and it is deeply and sacredly true. To mark the course of human passions as they have flowed on in the ages that are past; to see why nations have risen, and why they have fallen; to speak of heat, and light, and the winds; to know what man has discovered in the heavens above and in the earth beneath; to hear the chemist unfold the marvellous properties that the Creator has locked up in a speck of earth; to be told that there are worlds so distant from our own, that the quickness of light, travelling from the world's creation, has never yet reached us; to wander in the creations of poetry, and grow warm again with that eloquence which swayed the democracies of the Old World; to go up with great reasoners to the First Cause of all, and to perceive, in the midst of all this dissolution and decay and cruel separation, that there is one thing unchangeable, indestructible, and everlasting;—it is worth while in the days of our youth to strive hard for this great discipline; to pass sleepless nights for it; to give up for it laborious days; to spurn for it present pleasures; to endure for it afflicting poverty; to wade for it through darkness, and sorrow, and contempt, as the great spirits of the world have done in all ages and all times.
Nelson's School Series
Publisher T. Nelson and Sons, 1866
Length 400 pages
Click here.
Page 9:
PLEASURES OF KNOWLEDGE.
It is Noble to seek Truth, and it is Beautiful to find it. It is the ancient feeling of the human heart, that knowledge is better than riches; and it is deeply and sacredly true. To mark the course of human passions as they have flowed on in the ages that are past; to see why nations have risen, and why they have fallen; to speak of heat, and light, and the winds; to know what man has discovered in the heavens above and in the earth beneath; to hear the chemist unfold the marvellous properties that the Creator has locked up in a speck of earth; to be told that there are worlds so distant from our own, that the quickness of light, travelling from the world's creation, has never yet reached us; to wander in the creations of poetry, and grow warm again with that eloquence which swayed the democracies of the Old World; to go up with great reasoners to the First Cause of all, and to perceive, in the midst of all this dissolution and decay and cruel separation, that there is one thing unchangeable, indestructible, and everlasting;—it is worth while in the days of our youth to strive hard for this great discipline; to pass sleepless nights for it; to give up for it laborious days; to spurn for it present pleasures; to endure for it afflicting poverty; to wade for it through darkness, and sorrow, and contempt, as the great spirits of the world have done in all ages and all times.
Friday, March 9, 2012
The School and Family Primer/Google Books
Title The School and Family Primer
Harper's school and family series
Author Marcius Willson
Publisher Harper & brothers, 1860
Length 48 pages
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Harper's school and family series
Author Marcius Willson
Publisher Harper & brothers, 1860
Length 48 pages
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Sunday, March 4, 2012
The Boston Tea Party, and Other Stories of the American Revolution, Relating Many Daring Deeds of the Old Heroes/Google Books
Title The Boston Tea Party, and Other Stories of the American Revolution, Relating Many Daring Deeds of the Old Heroes
Author Henry Clay Watson
Publisher Lee and Shepard, 1889
Length 222 pages
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Author Henry Clay Watson
Publisher Lee and Shepard, 1889
Length 222 pages
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Saturday, March 3, 2012
Natural History in Anecdote: Illustrating the Nature, Habits, Manners and Customs of Animals, Birds, Fishes, Reptiles, Insects, ect./Google Booksn
Title Natural History in Anecdote: Illustrating the Nature, Habits, Manners and Customs of Animals, Birds, Fishes, Reptiles, Insects, ect.
Editor Alfred Henry Miles
Publisher Dodd, Mead & company, 1895
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Monday, February 27, 2012
English Composition and Literature(High School)/Project Gutenberg
Published in 1900 by W.F. Webster, see here.
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Higher Lessons in English by Brainerd Kellogg and Alonzo Reed /Project Gutenberg
Multi-grade short lesson and reference book, beginning grades through middle school, 1896. Click here.
Monday, February 6, 2012
Young and Field Literary Reader, Second Grade, 1916/Project Gutenberg
With phonetic drills at end. Click here.
Monday, January 30, 2012
Childhood in India, A Narrative for Young Children/Other
Based on a true stories, Childhood in India, A Narrative for Young Children, published in 1870. From the University of Florida Library of digitized books. Click here.
Textbook of Art Education Second Year/Project Gutenberg
When the trees are bare of leaves, we see how beautiful the branches are.
No two trees stretch out their arms in just the same way. But the largest boughs always spring from the big round trunk.
See how the smaller boughs spring from larger ones and rock the winter buds in the air.
Paint a tree as it looks in November.
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Sunday, January 29, 2012
Friday, January 27, 2012
The Student's Mythology by Catherine Ann White /Project Gutenberg
Question and answer guide to mythology for beginners. Click here.
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Sunday, January 22, 2012
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Madame Roland, Makers of History by John S. C. Abbott /Project Gutenberg
Just over 300 pages, story of the French Revolution's Reign of Terror from Madame Roland's memoirs.
"The history of Madame Roland embraces the most interesting events of the French Revolution, that most instructive tragedy which time has yet enacted. There is, perhaps, contained in the memoirs of no other woman so much to invigorate the mind with the desire for high intellectual culture, and so much to animate the spirit heroically to meet all the ills of this eventful life. Notwithstanding her experience of the heaviest temporal calamities, she found, in the opulence of her own intellectual treasures, an unfailing resource. These inward joys peopled her solitude with society, and dispelled even from the dungeon its gloom. I know not where to look for a career more full of suggestive thought."
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"The history of Madame Roland embraces the most interesting events of the French Revolution, that most instructive tragedy which time has yet enacted. There is, perhaps, contained in the memoirs of no other woman so much to invigorate the mind with the desire for high intellectual culture, and so much to animate the spirit heroically to meet all the ills of this eventful life. Notwithstanding her experience of the heaviest temporal calamities, she found, in the opulence of her own intellectual treasures, an unfailing resource. These inward joys peopled her solitude with society, and dispelled even from the dungeon its gloom. I know not where to look for a career more full of suggestive thought."
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