An Elementary History of Our CountryHoughton Mifflin Company, 1914 - 256 pages |
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... sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people , and eat out their substance . He has kept among us , in time of peace , standing armies , with- out the consent of our legislatures . He has affected to render the military ...
... sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people , and eat out their substance . He has kept among us , in time of peace , standing armies , with- out the consent of our legislatures . He has affected to render the military ...
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... sent out a vessel secretly . It went ATHAY ( CHINA ) 140 120 100 80 60 40 20 INDIAN OCEAN CIPANGO JAPAN AZORES Tropic of Cancer EQUATOR IRELANDO SPAIN MADEIRA 00 08 CANARIES Cape Verde Columbus goes to Spain THE MAP COLUMBUS USED but a ...
... sent out a vessel secretly . It went ATHAY ( CHINA ) 140 120 100 80 60 40 20 INDIAN OCEAN CIPANGO JAPAN AZORES Tropic of Cancer EQUATOR IRELANDO SPAIN MADEIRA 00 08 CANARIES Cape Verde Columbus goes to Spain THE MAP COLUMBUS USED but a ...
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... sent his brother to England to ask for help . He determined to leave Spain . La Rabida One morning a man with gray hair and keen blue eyes stood before the convent of La Rabida near Palos and asked for food Columbus at for his little ...
... sent his brother to England to ask for help . He determined to leave Spain . La Rabida One morning a man with gray hair and keen blue eyes stood before the convent of La Rabida near Palos and asked for food Columbus at for his little ...
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... sent him back to Spain . The captain of the vessel would gladly have removed the fetters , but Columbus said : " No , the rulers . of Spain have put chains upon me , and they alone shall take them off . So long as I live I will keep ...
... sent him back to Spain . The captain of the vessel would gladly have removed the fetters , but Columbus said : " No , the rulers . of Spain have put chains upon me , and they alone shall take them off . So long as I live I will keep ...
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... sent out no more expeditions for nearly eighty years . The land across the sea was not forgotten , however . Another Italian named Americus Vespucius sailed as a pilot , first in the Why our service of Spain and then in that of Portugal ...
... sent out no more expeditions for nearly eighty years . The land across the sea was not forgotten , however . Another Italian named Americus Vespucius sailed as a pilot , first in the Why our service of Spain and then in that of Portugal ...
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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...