An Elementary History of Our CountryHoughton Mifflin Company, 1914 - 256 pages |
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... the Company would be only too glad to have a settlement made on their territory , so they decided. THE PILGRIMS ' DEPARTURE FROM HOLLAND ( From an old Dutch painting ) THE MAYFLOWER ( From the National Museum model ). 54 OUR COUNTRY'S ...
... the Company would be only too glad to have a settlement made on their territory , so they decided. THE PILGRIMS ' DEPARTURE FROM HOLLAND ( From an old Dutch painting ) THE MAYFLOWER ( From the National Museum model ). 54 OUR COUNTRY'S ...
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Eva March Tappan. a settlement made on their territory , so they decided to stay where they were . Before they landed , they met in the cabin of the Mayflower and wrote a paper promising to obey whatever laws should be made . In search ...
Eva March Tappan. a settlement made on their territory , so they decided to stay where they were . Before they landed , they met in the cabin of the Mayflower and wrote a paper promising to obey whatever laws should be made . In search ...
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... territory than the Dutch , and a few of them set out for the mouth of the river . They carried with them the frame of a house , and , although the Dutch threatened to fire upon them from the fort at Hartford , kept on up the river ...
... territory than the Dutch , and a few of them set out for the mouth of the river . They carried with them the frame of a house , and , although the Dutch threatened to fire upon them from the fort at Hartford , kept on up the river ...
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... territory , and went back to the ship . This letter promised that the Dutch might plant as many colonies as they chose and have all the privi- leges of English colo- nists , if they would sur- render Manhattan . " Let us read it to the ...
... territory , and went back to the ship . This letter promised that the Dutch might plant as many colonies as they chose and have all the privi- leges of English colo- nists , if they would sur- render Manhattan . " Let us read it to the ...
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... territory to his brother , the Duke of York , and in 1664 New Amsterdam became New York . Nicolls remained as governor . He was a just , kind- hearted man , always ready to please the people . When he was obliged to go back to England ...
... territory to his brother , the Duke of York , and in 1664 New Amsterdam became New York . Nicolls remained as governor . He was a just , kind- hearted man , always ready to please the people . When he was obliged to go back to England ...
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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...