America: A HistoryT. Nelson and sons, 1882 - 564 pagini |
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Pagina 16
... looked eagerly for some great city , the plunder of whose palaces and temples would enrich them all . They found nothing better than occasionally an Indian town , composed of a few miserable huts . It was all they could do to get ...
... looked eagerly for some great city , the plunder of whose palaces and temples would enrich them all . They found nothing better than occasionally an Indian town , composed of a few miserable huts . It was all they could do to get ...
Pagina 23
... looked on , he vanquished three Turks , and , like David , cut off their heads , and bore them to his tent . Returning to England when the passion for coloniz- ing was at its height , he caught at once the prevailing impulse . He joined ...
... looked on , he vanquished three Turks , and , like David , cut off their heads , and bore them to his tent . Returning to England when the passion for coloniz- ing was at its height , he caught at once the prevailing impulse . He joined ...
Pagina 34
... looked . The Pilgrims wrote to their friends at home , and every letter was regarded with the interest due to a " sacred script . " They had hardships to tell of at first ; then they had prosperity and comfort ; always they had liberty ...
... looked . The Pilgrims wrote to their friends at home , and every letter was regarded with the interest due to a " sacred script . " They had hardships to tell of at first ; then they had prosperity and comfort ; always they had liberty ...
Pagina 49
... looked out into the bay . There lay the ships - grim , silent , ominously near . Appalled by the presence of his unexpected visitors , the Governor sent to ask wherefore they had come . His alarm was well founded ; for Charles II . of ...
... looked out into the bay . There lay the ships - grim , silent , ominously near . Appalled by the presence of his unexpected visitors , the Governor sent to ask wherefore they had come . His alarm was well founded ; for Charles II . of ...
Pagina 76
... looked at the project with his shrewd , cynical eye . He told Braddock that he would assuredly take the fort if he could only reach it ; but that the long slender line which his army must form in its march " would be cut like thread ...
... looked at the project with his shrewd , cynical eye . He told Braddock that he would assuredly take the fort if he could only reach it ; but that the long slender line which his army must form in its march " would be cut like thread ...
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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
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.