An Elementary History of Our CountryHoughton Mifflin Company, 1914 - 256 pages |
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... thought that it would be an exceedingly short way , for even the learned men who believed that the world was round thought it only half as large as it really is . He had studied and read and thought , and he felt sure that he was right ...
... thought that it would be an exceedingly short way , for even the learned men who believed that the world was round thought it only half as large as it really is . He had studied and read and thought , and he felt sure that he was right ...
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... thought that at last he had found a friend . After a while a ship sailed in from the west , and it became known that to make sure of the glory and gain for himself the king had sent out a vessel secretly . It went ATHAY ( CHINA ) 140 ...
... thought that at last he had found a friend . After a while a ship sailed in from the west , and it became known that to make sure of the glory and gain for himself the king had sent out a vessel secretly . It went ATHAY ( CHINA ) 140 ...
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... thought . Moreover , he needed a large sum of money to carry out a plan of his for rescuing from the Turks , who ruled in the Holy Land , the tomb in which Christ was said to have been buried , and he declared that he would rather seek ...
... thought . Moreover , he needed a large sum of money to carry out a plan of his for rescuing from the Turks , who ruled in the Holy Land , the tomb in which Christ was said to have been buried , and he declared that he would rather seek ...
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... thought they had lost their way . They were so angry with the admiral that they even planned to throw him overboard . Columbus was very patient with them . He sounded many times to convince them that there was plenty of water below the ...
... thought they had lost their way . They were so angry with the admiral that they even planned to throw him overboard . Columbus was very patient with them . He sounded many times to convince them that there was plenty of water below the ...
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... thought that he meant some mountains with nearly the same name . They told him of " great water " to the westward , and he supposed they meant the Indian Ocean . • The Indians had a tradition that some day white men would come down from ...
... thought that he meant some mountains with nearly the same name . They told him of " great water " to the westward , and he supposed they meant the Indian Ocean . • The Indians had a tradition that some day white men would come down from ...
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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...