Independent Fifth Reader (Volume 5); Containing a Practical Treatise on Elocution Illustrated with Diagrams, Select and Classified Reading and Recitat

by James Madison Watson

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1876 ... EGG8 AND FEATHERS. 95 knows that she is childless, but she knows that her son died repentant and prayerful. She knows, too, that her labor has not been in vain in the Lord; not in vain the bread cast on the wide waters; not in vain her hope, and patience, and prayer. Never, never is prayer in vain when prompted by love, and winged by faith. Mrs. P. H. Phelps. SECTION VI. i. 19. EGGS AND FEATHERS. FART FIRST. FAE south, in the Indian' Ocean, in the midst of almost ceaseless surf and spray, rises what is appropriately termed Danger Island. Of all the lonely spots on the globe whose existence has been ascertained, this is probably the most lonely. Once only since the creation has it been known to be visited by man. 2. The sea for many hundred miles rolls and flashes over a shallow bottom, till, arriving at a certain degree of latitude, the floor of rock abruptly ends, and the ocean becomes, in a moment, of unfathomable depth. On the very edge of this abyss stands Danger Island, which the least touch of an earthquake, or an unusual stroke of a hurricane, may topple over into the bottomless gulf. 8. From this persuasion, possibly, man has never attempted to erect his dwellings upon there it stands, in the midst of the surge,3 overcanopied by the bluest of blue skies, surrounded by a boundless expanse of waves, generally shining and beautiful, but as little specked by sails as if they girdled an uninhabited world. YSt, though no gale is astir, the billows incessantly fret and foam against the cliffs of Danger Island, which on all sides descend sheer into the deep, so as to appear from a distance perfectly inaccessible. 1 Indian (Ind' yan). s Surge (serj), rolling water. 8 A byss', a gulf; a bottomless Inx ac ce"ss' i ble, not to bo ob depth; hence, any very...

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Published February 6, 2012