America: A HistoryT. Nelson and sons, 1882 - 564 pagini |
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... Europe , and in America . THE TIMES.- " A valuable addition to the library . " THE SCOTSMAN.- " The central idea of the work and the chief aim of the writer is displayed in his very evident design to trace the growth of free institu ...
... Europe , and in America . THE TIMES.- " A valuable addition to the library . " THE SCOTSMAN.- " The central idea of the work and the chief aim of the writer is displayed in his very evident design to trace the growth of free institu ...
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... EUROPE AND AMERICA , POSTSCRIPT - PRESIDENT GARFIELD , THE DOMINION OF CANADA . I. THE DAWN OF CANADIAN HISTORY , : : 216 224 228 231 236 242 256 259 262 267 270 278 283 293 299 303 311 II . SAMUEL DE CHAMPLAIN , 317 ... III . THE ...
... EUROPE AND AMERICA , POSTSCRIPT - PRESIDENT GARFIELD , THE DOMINION OF CANADA . I. THE DAWN OF CANADIAN HISTORY , : : 216 224 228 231 236 242 256 259 262 267 270 278 283 293 299 303 311 II . SAMUEL DE CHAMPLAIN , 317 ... III . THE ...
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... Europe and America became known to each other . During the first fifteen centuries of the Christian era Europe was unaware of the vast continent which lay beyond the sea . Asia had ceased to influence her . Africa had not begun . Her ...
... Europe and America became known to each other . During the first fifteen centuries of the Christian era Europe was unaware of the vast continent which lay beyond the sea . Asia had ceased to influence her . Africa had not begun . Her ...
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... Europe a vehement desire for the discovery of unknown countries . A sudden interest sprang up in all that was distant and unexplored . The strange fables told by travellers were greedily received . The human mind was beginning to cast ...
... Europe a vehement desire for the discovery of unknown countries . A sudden interest sprang up in all that was distant and unexplored . The strange fables told by travellers were greedily received . The human mind was beginning to cast ...
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... Europe was not engrossed by those religious strifes which were soon to convulse it . The men whose trade was fighting turned gladly in this idle time to the world where boundless wealth was to be wrung from the grasp of unwarlike ...
... Europe was not engrossed by those religious strifes which were soon to convulse it . The men whose trade was fighting turned gladly in this idle time to the world where boundless wealth was to be wrung from the grasp of unwarlike ...
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Acadie American arms army attack battle became British Canada Canadian ceased CHAPTER Church close coast colonies colonists command Confederate Congress continent Cortes cotton Cuba Cusco defeat defence despotism dominion endured enemy England English Europe European evil Federal fell fight force forests France French gained gold Government Governor Gulf of Mexico Hispaniola hope Hudson Bay Company hundred Inca increased independence Indians industrial island King labour Lake Lake Winnipeg land Lawrence length liberty Lower Canada M'Clellan ment Mexican Mexico miles million sterling Mississippi nation native negroes neighbours Newfoundland North Northern Nova Scotia passed peace Peru Pizarro political population possession President provinces Quebec railway rebel rebellion river savages scarcely sent settlements settlers ships slave-owners slavery slaves soil soldiers sought South Southern Spain Spaniards Spanish strife success suffered territory thousand tion town trade troops Union Upper Canada valley vast victory Washington wealth
Pasaje populare
Pagina 193 - Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite ideas ; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition.
Pagina 204 - He sincerely hopes that your views and your action may so accord with his as to assure all faithful citizens who have been disturbed in their rights of a certain and speedy restoration to them, under the Constitution and the laws. And having thus chosen our course, without guile and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear and with manly hearts.
Pagina 216 - And I further declare and make known that such persons of suitable condition, will be received into the armed service of the United States to garrison forts, positions, stations, and other places, and to man vessels of all sorts in said service. And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution, upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of mankind, and the gracious favor of Almighty God.
Pagina 248 - A duty devolves upon me which is, perhaps, greater than that which has devolved upon any other man since the days of WASHINGTON. He never would have succeeded except for the aid of Divine Providence, upon which he at all times relied. I feel that I cannot succeed without the same Divine aid which sustained him, and on the same Almighty Being I place my reliance for support...
Pagina 239 - And then there will be some black men who can remember that with silent tongue, and clenched teeth, and steady eye, and wellpoised bayonet, they have helped mankind on to this great consummation, while I fear there will be some white ones unable to forget that with malignant heart and deceitful speech they strove to hinder it.
Pagina 230 - He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword; His truth is marching on. I have seen Him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps; They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps; I can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps: His day is marching on. I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnished rows of steel; "As ye deal with my condemners, so with you my grace shall deal; Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel, Since God...
Pagina 93 - Howe gazed at the mushroom fortress with astonishment, as it loomed indistinctly, but grandly, through a morning fog. " The rebels," exclaimed he, " have done more work in one night, than my whole army would have done in one month.
Pagina 229 - Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; He hath loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword: His truth is marching on.
Pagina 69 - Now, gentlemen, I would rather be the author of that poem than take Quebec.
Pagina 121 - The scene is at last closed. I feel myself eased of a load of public care. I hope to spend the remainder of my days in cultivating the affections of good men, and in the practice of the domestic virtues.