An Elementary History of Our CountryHoughton Mifflin Company, 1914 - 256 pages |
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... never again should they see their homes and their friends . Every- thing alarmed them . The mast of a vessel floated by , and this they took as a sure sign that they would be wrecked . They saw a meteor , and they were certain that it ...
... never again should they see their homes and their friends . Every- thing alarmed them . The mast of a vessel floated by , and this they took as a sure sign that they would be wrecked . They saw a meteor , and they were certain that it ...
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... Never , " answered the commander , " I will go on if I have to eat the leather from the ship's yards . " 66 On he went . The sailors rebelled . " He is only a foreigner , " said they , " and what better service could he render to the ...
... Never , " answered the commander , " I will go on if I have to eat the leather from the ship's yards . " 66 On he went . The sailors rebelled . " He is only a foreigner , " said they , " and what better service could he render to the ...
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... never entered the minds of these voyagers that the Indians had any rights . He did not care to have trouble , however , and he thought it was quite unneces- sary to tell the truth to an Indian , so he 66 said : That is nothing . The ...
... never entered the minds of these voyagers that the Indians had any rights . He did not care to have trouble , however , and he thought it was quite unneces- sary to tell the truth to an Indian , so he 66 said : That is nothing . The ...
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... never been free from tobacco smoke . " Two years later Ra- leigh sent out a second colony to the same place , this time of men , wo- men , and children . Not SPANISH TREASURE SHIPS long after they landed , there was born to the ...
... never been free from tobacco smoke . " Two years later Ra- leigh sent out a second colony to the same place , this time of men , wo- men , and children . Not SPANISH TREASURE SHIPS long after they landed , there was born to the ...
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... never gave up his interest in America . " I shall live to see Virginia an English nation , " he said , and he did see the beginning of a new home for part of the English people across the ocean . If he could look upon America now , he ...
... never gave up his interest in America . " I shall live to see Virginia an English nation , " he said , and he did see the beginning of a new home for part of the English people across the ocean . If he could look upon America now , he ...
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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...