Stories of Patriotism: A Patriotic Reader for the Intermediate GradesHoughton MIfflin Company, 1918 - 180 pagini |
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Pagina 47
... seemed to go sailing through the air like a bird . When he struck the earth he was so far in advance of all the others that they clapped their hands with delight . Nothing of the kind was ever seen before , and no one tried to see what ...
... seemed to go sailing through the air like a bird . When he struck the earth he was so far in advance of all the others that they clapped their hands with delight . Nothing of the kind was ever seen before , and no one tried to see what ...
Pagina 48
... seemed to go wrong with the patriots until Washington made his bril- liant capture of the Hessians at the close of the year at Tren- ton . The Americans had suffered a bad defeat on Long Island in August , and only by a narrow chance ...
... seemed to go wrong with the patriots until Washington made his bril- liant capture of the Hessians at the close of the year at Tren- ton . The Americans had suffered a bad defeat on Long Island in August , and only by a narrow chance ...
Pagina 71
... seemed inevitable . Just about this time Joseph Hopkinson , a young lawyer , was asked to write a song to the tune of the President's March for a friend of his who was to make his first public appearance on the stage in Philadelphia ...
... seemed inevitable . Just about this time Joseph Hopkinson , a young lawyer , was asked to write a song to the tune of the President's March for a friend of his who was to make his first public appearance on the stage in Philadelphia ...
Pagina 73
... seemed to come from a cloud . There were long marches over plains where the thorns of the prickly pear pierced their shoes as if they were only paper . Sometimes they were driven half wild with clouds of mos- quitoes . " The Musquetoes ...
... seemed to come from a cloud . There were long marches over plains where the thorns of the prickly pear pierced their shoes as if they were only paper . Sometimes they were driven half wild with clouds of mos- quitoes . " The Musquetoes ...
Pagina 94
... seemed able to take care of his family . His mother was a fine woman , and all that Abraham Lincoln afterwards became , he used to say he owed to her teaching . But the rough life which she had to lead was too hard for her , and she ...
... seemed able to take care of his family . His mother was a fine woman , and all that Abraham Lincoln afterwards became , he used to say he owed to her teaching . But the rough life which she had to lead was too hard for her , and she ...
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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.