An Elementary History of Our CountryHoughton Mifflin Company, 1914 - 256 pages |
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... wished to cross the seas was because a dear friend of his was in the eastern Indies . The king of Portugal refused to have anything to do with the expedition . Then Magellan asked , " Have I your majesty's permission to offer my ...
... wished to cross the seas was because a dear friend of his was in the eastern Indies . The king of Portugal refused to have anything to do with the expedition . Then Magellan asked , " Have I your majesty's permission to offer my ...
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... wished to cross a piece of damp ground . The attendants did not know how to save her Majesty from setting her royal foot in the mud , but , quick as thought , Sir Walter spread his rich velvet mantle on the ground before her , and the ...
... wished to cross a piece of damp ground . The attendants did not know how to save her Majesty from setting her royal foot in the mud , but , quick as thought , Sir Walter spread his rich velvet mantle on the ground before her , and the ...
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... wished to come to America would sell themselves , that is , they would agree to work a certain time for any one who would pay their passage . Even this supply was not enough , and in the year 1619 a Dutch ship brought twenty negroes to ...
... wished to come to America would sell themselves , that is , they would agree to work a certain time for any one who would pay their passage . Even this supply was not enough , and in the year 1619 a Dutch ship brought twenty negroes to ...
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... wished to make the church purer . The name " Separa- tists " was given to those who wished to leave the church , and these were the people whom we call the Pilgrim Fathers . knew that go to Hol- land The king forbade them. 52 OUR ...
... wished to make the church purer . The name " Separa- tists " was given to those who wished to leave the church , and these were the people whom we call the Pilgrim Fathers . knew that go to Hol- land The king forbade them. 52 OUR ...
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... wished to make a treaty with the white people so that he might have aid if he were attacked . The Pilgrims gave the chief and his attendants some presents and feasted them . Then the two parties made a solemn promise that they would ...
... wished to make a treaty with the white people so that he might have aid if he were attacked . The Pilgrims gave the chief and his attendants some presents and feasted them . Then the two parties made a solemn promise that they would ...
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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...