An Elementary History of Our CountryHoughton Mifflin Company, 1914 - 256 pages |
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... soldiers and music and banners and gorgeous robes to escort Columbus to the king and queen . He knelt before them , but Isabella begged. THE LANDING OF COLUMBUS ( From Vanderlyn's painting in the Capitol at Washington ) SOUTH AMERICAN ...
... soldiers and music and banners and gorgeous robes to escort Columbus to the king and queen . He knelt before them , but Isabella begged. THE LANDING OF COLUMBUS ( From Vanderlyn's painting in the Capitol at Washington ) SOUTH AMERICAN ...
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... soldier's cuirass and halberd ) waste their time planting corn , when by a little searching they could per- haps discover a gold mine . This is the chief reason why during the First perma- second fifty years after Columbus nent settle ...
... soldier's cuirass and halberd ) waste their time planting corn , when by a little searching they could per- haps discover a gold mine . This is the chief reason why during the First perma- second fifty years after Columbus nent settle ...
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... soldier , as well as the author of some very good poetry and an interesting history of the world . Whatever he undertook he did well , and he always seemed to know just what to do . There is a story that one day Queen Elizabeth wished ...
... soldier , as well as the author of some very good poetry and an interesting history of the world . Whatever he undertook he did well , and he always seemed to know just what to do . There is a story that one day Queen Elizabeth wished ...
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... SOLDIER OF 1603 Sickness and other troubles James ; and up a river , which they named the James River in honor of the king himself . On a peninsula which extended into the stream they decided to make their settlement . They called it ...
... SOLDIER OF 1603 Sickness and other troubles James ; and up a river , which they named the James River in honor of the king himself . On a peninsula which extended into the stream they decided to make their settlement . They called it ...
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... soldier in three or four countries , and had been tossed into the sea as one whom a company of self - right- eous pilgrims thought would bring them bad luck . Three times he had en- gaged in single combat with a Turk- ish champion ...
... soldier in three or four countries , and had been tossed into the sea as one whom a company of self - right- eous pilgrims thought would bring them bad luck . Three times he had en- gaged in single combat with a Turk- ish champion ...
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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...