An Elementary History of Our CountryHoughton Mifflin Company, 1914 - 256 pages |
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... carry off a great ship and all the sailors ; and worse than that , Satan sometimes stretches up a great black hand as ... carried past Constantinople and over the Mediterranean to Genoa . Columbus went to sea when he was fourteen , and. 2 ...
... carry off a great ship and all the sailors ; and worse than that , Satan sometimes stretches up a great black hand as ... carried past Constantinople and over the Mediterranean to Genoa . Columbus went to sea when he was fourteen , and. 2 ...
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... carry out a plan of his for rescuing from the Turks , who ruled in the Holy Land , the tomb in which Christ was said to have been buried , and he declared that he would rather seek for the aid of France than yield a single point . The ...
... carry out a plan of his for rescuing from the Turks , who ruled in the Holy Land , the tomb in which Christ was said to have been buried , and he declared that he would rather seek for the aid of France than yield a single point . The ...
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... carrying a torch in his hand . Early the next morning , October 12 , 1492 , the land was in full view . Columbus put on his rich scarlet robes , took the royal banner in his hand , and was rowed to the shore . What a shore it was ! The ...
... carrying a torch in his hand . Early the next morning , October 12 , 1492 , the land was in full view . Columbus put on his rich scarlet robes , took the royal banner in his hand , and was rowed to the shore . What a shore it was ! The ...
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... carried with him cattle , mules , horses , and also fierce blood- hounds which were sometimes used to hunt the natives . It is The Missis- sippi River discovered DE SOTO REACHING THE MISSISSIPPI. EARLY FOLLOWERS OF COLUMBUS 21.
... carried with him cattle , mules , horses , and also fierce blood- hounds which were sometimes used to hunt the natives . It is The Missis- sippi River discovered DE SOTO REACHING THE MISSISSIPPI. EARLY FOLLOWERS OF COLUMBUS 21.
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... carried home a black stone from the frozen lands north of North America , he was immediately sent back across the ocean for a cargo of black stones , for the wise men of Lon- don declared that the specimen was full of gold . To ...
... carried home a black stone from the frozen lands north of North America , he was immediately sent back across the ocean for a cargo of black stones , for the wise men of Lon- don declared that the specimen was full of gold . To ...
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Page 248 - But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts — for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own Governments, for the rights and liberties of small nations, for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free.
Page 142 - You know the rest. In the books you have read, How the British regulars fired and fled, How the farmers gave them ball for ball, From behind each fence and farm-yard wall, Chasing the red-coats down the lane, Then crossing the fields to emerge again Under the trees at the turn of the road, And only pausing to fire and load.
Page 222 - I beg to present you, as a Christmas gift, the city of Savannah, with one hundred and fifty heavy guns and plenty of ammunition ; also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton.
Page 43 - I'll have thrice the weight in gold. Why, man, all their dripping-pans and their chamber-pots are pure gold, and all the chains with which they chain up their streets are massy gold. All the prisoners they take are fettered in gold. And for rubies and diamonds, they go forth on holidays and gather them by the sea-shore to hang on their children's coats and stick in their caps, as commonly as our children wear saffron gilt brooches and groats with holes in them.
Page 135 - ... may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it...