An Elementary History of Our CountryHoughton Mifflin Company, 1914 - 256 pages |
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... gave John Cabot the royal permission to cross the ocean on condition that he received one fifth of the profits of the enterprise . In 1497 , just before Columbus went on his third voy- age , John Cabot set sail . He is thought to have ...
... gave John Cabot the royal permission to cross the ocean on condition that he received one fifth of the profits of the enterprise . In 1497 , just before Columbus went on his third voy- age , John Cabot set sail . He is thought to have ...
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... gave the name of Florida to the new land . It was a beautiful country , full of bright green trees , and flowers of many colors . There were rivers and lakes and springs . " Surely among all these , " thought De Leon , we shall find the ...
... gave the name of Florida to the new land . It was a beautiful country , full of bright green trees , and flowers of many colors . There were rivers and lakes and springs . " Surely among all these , " thought De Leon , we shall find the ...
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... gave the name Saint Law- rence , because he had discovered it on Saint Lawrence's Day . JACQUES CARTIER Lawrence explored A few years later another great river , the Mississippi , was visited . This discovery was made by De Soto , the ...
... gave the name Saint Law- rence , because he had discovered it on Saint Lawrence's Day . JACQUES CARTIER Lawrence explored A few years later another great river , the Mississippi , was visited . This discovery was made by De Soto , the ...
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... gave Spain , France , and England claims to land in North America . They proved : - That the world was round . That it was much larger than had been supposed . That a continent lay between Europe and Asia . SUGGESTIONS FOR WRITTEN WORK ...
... gave Spain , France , and England claims to land in North America . They proved : - That the world was round . That it was much larger than had been supposed . That a continent lay between Europe and Asia . SUGGESTIONS FOR WRITTEN WORK ...
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... gave many reasons . He brought for- ward the hope that America would become a market for Eng- Reasons lish manufactures . He declared that England would soon have neither food nor work for her people . It was becoming so much more ...
... gave many reasons . He brought for- ward the hope that America would become a market for Eng- Reasons lish manufactures . He declared that England would soon have neither food nor work for her people . It was becoming so much more ...
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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...