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... light - headed frontier ax as skilfully as other frontiersmen . His main business was that of surveyor , for his knowledge of the country , and his ability to travel through it , in spite of the danger from Indians , created much demand ...
... light - headed frontier ax as skilfully as other frontiersmen . His main business was that of surveyor , for his knowledge of the country , and his ability to travel through it , in spite of the danger from Indians , created much demand ...
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... light hair and blue eyes . He was of good Virginian family . Early in his youth , he embarked on the adventurous career of a backwoods surveyor , exactly as Washington and so many other young Virginians of spirit did at that period . He ...
... light hair and blue eyes . He was of good Virginian family . Early in his youth , he embarked on the adventurous career of a backwoods surveyor , exactly as Washington and so many other young Virginians of spirit did at that period . He ...
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... light of the flaring torches . For some moments no one noticed him . Then an Indian who had been lying with his chin on his hand , looking carefully over the gaunt figure of the stranger , sprang to his feet , and uttered the wild war ...
... light of the flaring torches . For some moments no one noticed him . Then an Indian who had been lying with his chin on his hand , looking carefully over the gaunt figure of the stranger , sprang to his feet , and uttered the wild war ...
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... light guns ; but Clark feared lest , if he made a sudden night attack , the townspeople and In- dians would from sheer fright turn against him . He accordingly arranged , just before he himself marched in , to send in the captured duck ...
... light guns ; but Clark feared lest , if he made a sudden night attack , the townspeople and In- dians would from sheer fright turn against him . He accordingly arranged , just before he himself marched in , to send in the captured duck ...
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... light . Washington , at the front and on the right of the line , swept down the Pennington road , and , as he drove back the Hessian pickets , he heard the shout of Sullivan's men as , with Stark leading the van , they charged in from ...
... light . Washington , at the front and on the right of the line , swept down the Pennington road , and , as he drove back the Hessian pickets , he heard the shout of Sullivan's men as , with Stark leading the van , they charged in from ...
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Page 335 - Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said "the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
Page 174 - THE muffled drum's sad roll has beat The soldier's last tattoo ; No more on life's parade shall meet That brave and fallen few. On fame's eternal camping ground Their silent tents are spread, And glory guards, with solemn round, The bivouac of the dead.
Page 30 - Have the elder races halted? Do they droop and end their lesson, wearied over there beyond the seas? We take up the task eternal, and the burden and the lesson, Pioneers ! O pioneers...
Page 324 - O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells: Rise up — for you the flag is flung — for you the bugle trills, For you bouquets and ribbon'd wreaths — for you the shores a-crowding, For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning; Here Captain! dear father! This arm beneath your head! It is some dream that on the deck You've fallen cold and dead.
Page 335 - ANY DEPARTURE FROM THOSE DIVINE ATTRIBUTES WHICH THE BELIEVERS IN A LIVING GOD ALWAYS ASCRIBE TO HIM. FONDLY DO WE HOPE — FERVENTLY DO WE PRAY — THAT THIS MIGHTY SCOURGE OF WAR MAY SPEEDILY PASS AWAY. YET IF GOD WILLS THAT IT CONTINUE UNTIL ALL THE WEALTH PILED BY THE BONDSMAN'S TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS...
Page 324 - My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still, My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will, The ship is...
Page 104 - Set you down this ; And say besides, that in Aleppo once, Where a malignant and a turban'd Turk Beat a Venetian and traduced the state, I took by the throat the circumcised dog, And smote him, thus.
Page 200 - 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.
Page 6 - Happy in the confirmation of our independence and sovereignty, and pleased with the opportunity afforded the United States, of becoming a respectable nation...
Page 174 - Their shivered swords are red with rust, Their plumed heads are bowed; Their haughty banner, trailed in dust, Is now their martial shroud. And plenteous funeral tears have washed The red stains from each brow, And the proud forms, by battle gashed, Are free from anguish now. The...