Young Folks' History of AmericaHezekiah Butterworth Estes and Lauriat, 1881 - 543 pagini |
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Pagina 16
... length and three - six- teenths of an inch in diameter . The tubes were cast upon hollow reeds , and were so prepared as to protect the vulner- able parts of the body below the breastplate . Who were these mysterious and unknown ...
... length and three - six- teenths of an inch in diameter . The tubes were cast upon hollow reeds , and were so prepared as to protect the vulner- able parts of the body below the breastplate . Who were these mysterious and unknown ...
Pagina 20
... than one thousand feet in length . The mouth of this strange figure is open , as in the act of swallowing or ejecting an oval The Mound - Builders . 21 substance , which is 20 Young Folks ' History of America . Mounds near Newark, Ohio.
... than one thousand feet in length . The mouth of this strange figure is open , as in the act of swallowing or ejecting an oval The Mound - Builders . 21 substance , which is 20 Young Folks ' History of America . Mounds near Newark, Ohio.
Pagina 29
... length there was discovered a stone which the wise Creator had endowed with strange properties . It was ob- served that a needle brought once into contact with that stone pointed ever afterwards steadfastly to the north . Men saw that ...
... length there was discovered a stone which the wise Creator had endowed with strange properties . It was ob- served that a needle brought once into contact with that stone pointed ever afterwards steadfastly to the north . Men saw that ...
Pagina 41
... - ally an Indian town , composed of a few miserable huts . It was all they could do to get needful food . At length they came to a magnificent river . European eyes had seen no such river till now . It was about a mile.
... - ally an Indian town , composed of a few miserable huts . It was all they could do to get needful food . At length they came to a magnificent river . European eyes had seen no such river till now . It was about a mile.
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... length the natives grew less timid , and finally welcomed . the discoverer , and treated him so hospitably that he re- mained nearly a fortnight , visiting their inland villages and picking up all the information he could . When he ...
... length the natives grew less timid , and finally welcomed . the discoverer , and treated him so hospitably that he re- mained nearly a fortnight , visiting their inland villages and picking up all the information he could . When he ...
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Pagina 404 - 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 451 - 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 435 - 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 420 - 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 85 - Lay in the fruitful valley. Vast meadows stretched to the eastward, Giving the village its name, and pasture to flocks without number.
Pagina 308 - He smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth. He touched the dead corpse of the Public Credit, and it sprung upon its feet.
Pagina 451 - Oh be swift my soul, to answer him ! be jubilant, my feet ! Our God is marching on. In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea, With a glory in his bosom that transfigures you and me: As he died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, While God is marching on.
Pagina 482 - 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 197 - Now, gentlemen, I would rather be the author of that poem than take Quebec.
Pagina 467 - 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.