America: A HistoryT. Nelson and sons, 1882 - 564 pagini |
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Pagina 16
... began their march into the wilderness . They had fetters for the Indians whom they meant to take cap- tive . They had bloodhounds , lest these captives should escape . The camp swarmed with priests , and as they marched the festivals ...
... began their march into the wilderness . They had fetters for the Indians whom they meant to take cap- tive . They had bloodhounds , lest these captives should escape . The camp swarmed with priests , and as they marched the festivals ...
Pagina 18
... began to think of finding a home beyond the Atlantic . The courage and endurance of the early voyagers excite our wonder . Few of them sailed in ships so large as a hundred tons burden . The merchant ships of that time were very small ...
... began to think of finding a home beyond the Atlantic . The courage and endurance of the early voyagers excite our wonder . Few of them sailed in ships so large as a hundred tons burden . The merchant ships of that time were very small ...
Pagina 32
... began somewhat to improve , but there was still much suffering to endure . The summer passed not unprosperously . They had taken possession of the deserted clearings of the Indians , and had no difficulty in providing themselves with ...
... began somewhat to improve , but there was still much suffering to endure . The summer passed not unprosperously . They had taken possession of the deserted clearings of the Indians , and had no difficulty in providing themselves with ...
Pagina 33
... began to grow . The years which followed the coming of the Pilgrims were years through which good men ir England found it bitter to live . Charles I. was upon the throne ; Laud was Archbishop of Canterbury . Bigotry as blind and almost ...
... began to grow . The years which followed the coming of the Pilgrims were years through which good men ir England found it bitter to live . Charles I. was upon the throne ; Laud was Archbishop of Canterbury . Bigotry as blind and almost ...
Pagina 34
... began to yield them abundant harvests . They fished with such success that they manured their fields with the harvest of the sea . They spun and they weaved . They felled the timber of their boundless forests . They built ships , and ...
... began to yield them abundant harvests . They fished with such success that they manured their fields with the harvest of the sea . They spun and they weaved . They felled the timber of their boundless forests . They built ships , and ...
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Termeni și expresii frecvente
Acadie American arms army attack battle became Brazil British Canada Canadian ceased Church coast colonies colonists Confederate conquest continent Cortes Cuba Cusco defeat defence despotism dominion endured enemy England English Europe European evil Federal fell fight force forests France French gained gold Government Governor Grant Gulf of Mexico Hispaniola hope Hudson Bay Company hundred Inca increased Indians industrial island James river Jesuits King labour Lake Lake Winnipeg land Lawrence liberty lived Lower Canada M'Clellan ment Mexican Mexico miles million sterling nation native negroes neighbours Newfoundland North Northern Nova Scotia one-half passed peace Peru Pizarro political population Portugal possession President provinces Quebec railway rebel rebellion river savages scarcely sent settlements settlers ships 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 195 - 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 206 - 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 218 - 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 250 - 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 241 - 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 232 - 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 95 - 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 231 - 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 71 - Now, gentlemen, I would rather be the author of that poem than take Quebec.
Pagina 123 - 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.