Stories of Patriotism: A Patriotic Reader for the Intermediate GradesHoughton MIfflin Company, 1918 - 180 pagini |
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Pagina 25
... show to Governor Dinwiddie . The next day he went on to Fort Le Bœuf . He presented the governor's letter , which reminded the French that they were on land belonging to the English . The commander STORIES OF THE WAR OF INDEPENDENCE 25.
... show to Governor Dinwiddie . The next day he went on to Fort Le Bœuf . He presented the governor's letter , which reminded the French that they were on land belonging to the English . The commander STORIES OF THE WAR OF INDEPENDENCE 25.
Pagina 26
... letter to Governor Duquesne ; but this is where he has placed me , and here I must stay until he sends me somewhere else . " Washington took his leave . The horses went so slowly through the snow that , to save time , he returned on ...
... letter to Governor Duquesne ; but this is where he has placed me , and here I must stay until he sends me somewhere else . " Washington took his leave . The horses went so slowly through the snow that , to save time , he returned on ...
Pagina 58
... letter to the Legislature , telling them how little they were doing for the army . He said it was much easier to find fault " in a comfortable room by a good fireside than to camp upon a cold , bleak hill and sleep under frost 58 ...
... letter to the Legislature , telling them how little they were doing for the army . He said it was much easier to find fault " in a comfortable room by a good fireside than to camp upon a cold , bleak hill and sleep under frost 58 ...
Pagina 59
... letters home , which did much to bring about something that delighted Washington and " the boy , " as the British scornfully called Lafayette . Word came across the sea that the French king had decided to help America . Then there was ...
... letters home , which did much to bring about something that delighted Washington and " the boy , " as the British scornfully called Lafayette . Word came across the sea that the French king had decided to help America . Then there was ...
Pagina 65
... letter X. It was used in Scotland as early as the eleventh century . The banner of St. George was white , charged with a red cross ; and it was used in England as early as the first part of the fourteenth century . By a royal ...
... letter X. It was used in Scotland as early as the eleventh century . The banner of St. George was white , charged with a red cross ; and it was used in England as early as the first part of the fourteenth century . By a royal ...
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Pagina 87 - From wandering on a foreign strand ? If such there breathe, go, mark him well; For him no minstrel raptures swell ; High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim, — Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonored, and unsung.
Pagina 23 - A little neglect may breed great mischief; for want of a nail the shoe was lost ; for want of a shoe the horse was lost ; and for want of a horse the rider was lost,' being overtaken and slain by the enemy ; all for want of a little care about a horse-shoe nail.
Pagina 131 - O'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave ? On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep, Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, now conceals, now discloses?
Pagina 87 - BREATHES there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land ! Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned, From wandering on a foreign strand...
Pagina 133 - My native country, thee, Land of the noble free, Thy name I love ; I love thy rocks and rills, Thy woods and templed hills; My heart with rapture thrills Like that above.
Pagina 131 - Oh, say, can you see, by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming ? Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming...
Pagina 21 - Second street, and asked for biscuit, intending such as we had in Boston ; but they, it seems, were not made in Philadelphia. Then I asked for a three-penny loaf, and was told they had none such.
Pagina 132 - Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just, And this be our motto: "In God is our trust...
Pagina 142 - God save our gracious King ! Long live our noble King! God save the King! Send him victorious, Happy and glorious, Long to reign over us ! God save the King!
Pagina 19 - My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church.