The First-[fifth] Reader, 4 tomas

Marcius Willson

Harper, 1860

Turinys

• Key to the Sounds of the Letters: 14
• Organs that prepare Nourishment for the Body: 29
• Abuses of the Digestive OrgansLaws of their Healthy Action: 35
• Advantages of Temperance in Diet: 44
• A Hymn Air and Exercise: 53
• The Skinits complicated Mechanism: 59
• Abuses of the Skin: 66
• The Old Cottage Clock: 75
• IV: 90
• VII: 96
• XXII: 102
• THE CLEFTBILLS: 108
• THE CONEBILLS: 118
• Lesson Page XXIII III CLIMBERS Toucans Lories Parrots Wrens etc: 133
• Parrots Campbells Description of: 136
• The Cuckoo and the Swallow: 138
• The Cuckoo: 139
• SCRATCHERS OR POULTRYBIRDS Pheasants Doves: 140
• THE THINBILLS Hummingbirds: 145
• THE RUNNERS Ostriches Bustards etc: 146
• THE WADERS Spoonbills Cranes Flamingoes Herons Storks: 149
• THE SWIMMERS Penguins Auks Pelicans Ducks Gulls Swans: 154
• The Harmony of Nature: 159
• Birds of the Sea: 160
• The Stormy Petrel: 161
• To a Waterfowl Birds of Passage by Night: 162
• What is that Mother?: 164
• The Birds of Heaven: 165
• Questions to the Birds and their Answers: 166
• A SouthSea Rookery: 168
• PART III: 171
• Introductory View of Botany: 174
• The Elementary Parts of PlantsCell Life: 178
• The Roots of Plants Planting: 182
• Changes produced by Cultivation: 185
• The Stems of Plants The Baobab Cactus: 186
• The Banyantree: 191
• The Leaves of Plants: 192
• 21: 194
• The Angel of the Leaves an Allegory: 198
• Poetical Imagery derived from the Vegetable World: 202
• The Last Leaf: 205
• The Food of Plants: 207
• The Mysteries of Vegetation: 210
• Plants the Lungs of Cities: 211
• BudsBudding Grafting etc: 213
• Leaf Arrangement: 214
• Vegetable ReproductionFlowers: 217
• Hymn to the Flowers: 221
• Vegetable Reproductioncontinued Stamens Pistil Fruit Seeds: 223
• Flowers the Stars of Earth: 227
• Dispersion of Seeds: 229
• PART IV: 231
• Abram and Zimri: 234
• Sorrow for the Dead: 236
• Forgive and Forget: 239
• Cleon and 1: 240
• Spectacles or Helps to Read: 241
• The May Queen: 242
• The Bishop and the King: 246
• The Chameleon: 248
• We are Seven: 250
• On Goodbreeding: 252
• The Heritage: 254
• Schemes of Life often Illusory: 256
• A Psalm of Life: 259
• Practical Precepts: 260
• The Inquiry: 261
• The Hour of Prayer Prayer: 263
• The Three Sons: 264
• The Blind Preacher: 266
• Father William: 268
• The Volunteer Philosophy Class: 280
• 38: 307
• 47: 319
• PART VI: 332

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Bibliografinė informacija

• Pavadinimas: The First-[fifth] Reader, 4 tomas; Harper's series. School & family readers; The First-[fifth] Reader, Marcius Willson
• Autorius: Marcius Willson
• Leidėjas: Harper, 1860
• Originalas iš: Kalifornijos universitetas
• Pakeista skaitmenine forma: 6 gruodžio 2007