America: A HistoryT. Nelson and sons, 1882 - 564 pagini |
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Pagina 14
... fighting and huge waste of life and property , the fortunate English had been able to determine which branch of a certain old family was to rule over them . Henry VII , with his clear , cold head , and his heavy hand , was guiding his ...
... fighting and huge waste of life and property , the fortunate English had been able to determine which branch of a certain old family was to rule over them . Henry VII , with his clear , cold head , and his heavy hand , was guiding his ...
Pagina 16
... fight and heavy losses to bear . Always he was vic- torious , but he could ill afford the cost of many such victories . The captive Indians amused him with tales of regions where gold abounded . They had learned that ignorance on that ...
... fight and heavy losses to bear . Always he was vic- torious , but he could ill afford the cost of many such victories . The captive Indians amused him with tales of regions where gold abounded . They had learned that ignorance on that ...
Pagina 19
... Fighting was the constant occupation of the Kings of that time . A year of peace was a rare and somewhat wearisome exception . Kings habitually , at their own unquestioned pleasure , gathered their subjects together , and marched them ...
... Fighting was the constant occupation of the Kings of that time . A year of peace was a rare and somewhat wearisome exception . Kings habitually , at their own unquestioned pleasure , gathered their subjects together , and marched them ...
Pagina 28
... fighting . The rivers which now give life to so much cheerful industry flowed uselessly to the sea . Providence had prepared a home which a great people might fitly inhabit . Let us see whence and how the men were brought who were the ...
... fighting . The rivers which now give life to so much cheerful industry flowed uselessly to the sea . Providence had prepared a home which a great people might fitly inhabit . Let us see whence and how the men were brought who were the ...
Pagina 50
... fight . The Dutch remembered the Governor's tyrannies , and they would not fight . Governor Petrus was prepared to fight single - handed . He had the twenty guns of the fort loaded , and was resolute to fire upon the ships . So at least ...
... fight . The Dutch remembered the Governor's tyrannies , and they would not fight . Governor Petrus was prepared to fight single - handed . He had the twenty guns of the fort loaded , and was resolute to fire upon the ships . So at least ...
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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
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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.