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A Collection of Interesting and Instructive Lessons, Intended as a Sequel to the Economic Instructor
A Collection of Interesting and Instructive Lessons Intended as a Sequel to the Economic Instructor Author:James Campbell General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1832 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: Yet still the moon with its lucid light, Rose up to life again; And a streak of beauty fair and bright Lay smiling on the main. And it laughed and played as a rolling wave Passed 'neath its glowing- breast; And the swelling seas that love to rave Sank silently to rest. But still a frequent gust would sweep Over the ocean's brow, And the beam that rested on the deep, Would still more deeply glow. The sea is like a troubled breast, Overwhelmed with care and grief; Or the weary mind that knows no rest From pangs that spurn relief. But, like the beam of the moonlight ray, Hope glows upon the mind, And sheds a dream of a brighter day, And leaves new joys behind. National Omnibus. 5. The Ocean. Sur'ges; waves. August'; stately, majestic. Spec'- tacle; sight. Magnificence ; grandeur. Ama'zes ; astonishes. Adhere'; stick to, cleave. Em'inent; distinguished. Computes'; reckons. Bartier; pro- tection. Contin'ually; constantly. Ed'dy; whirling current. Cement'ed; united. Pen'etrate; enter. Conform'ity ; fitness, adaptation. Buoy'ant ; elastic. Superfluity ; excess. Sol'id ; compact. Facility ; ease. The ocean, rolling its surges from clime todime, is the most august object under the whole heaven. It is a spectacle of magnificence and terror, which fills the mind, and amazes the imagination. Let us examine a drop of water, only so much as will adhere to the point of a needle. In this speck an eminent philosopher computes no less than thirteen thousand globules ; and if so many thousands are in so small a speck, how. many must there be in the unmeasured extent of the ocean ! I...« less