The History of Our Country from Its Discovery by Columbus to the Celebration of the Centennial Anniversary of Its Declaration of Independence ... |
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... hundred years ago this whole great country of ours was a vast unknown wilderness ; that the people in Europe and Asia did not even know that there was any land here , but supposed the Atlantic was a broad spreading ocean reaching from ...
... hundred years ago this whole great country of ours was a vast unknown wilderness ; that the people in Europe and Asia did not even know that there was any land here , but supposed the Atlantic was a broad spreading ocean reaching from ...
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... hundred years before the time of Columbus , a great traveler named Marco Polo who had lived in India and China , brought back glowing accounts of the magnificence of the Khan of Tartary , whose kingdom was in the east ; and of the great ...
... hundred years before the time of Columbus , a great traveler named Marco Polo who had lived in India and China , brought back glowing accounts of the magnificence of the Khan of Tartary , whose kingdom was in the east ; and of the great ...
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... hundred and thirty - four men , they brought back eighteen . So ended THE FIRST VOYAGE AROUND THE GLOBE , one of the most remarkable in all the history of navigation . From this time forth the practicability of reaching Asia by sailing ...
... hundred and thirty - four men , they brought back eighteen . So ended THE FIRST VOYAGE AROUND THE GLOBE , one of the most remarkable in all the history of navigation . From this time forth the practicability of reaching Asia by sailing ...
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... hundred men , most of them mounted on horses . De Soto landed with his men , dressed in full armor , which soldiers all wore in expeditions of war . They took on shore a great many horses and swine . These were the first horses and pigs ...
... hundred men , most of them mounted on horses . De Soto landed with his men , dressed in full armor , which soldiers all wore in expeditions of war . They took on shore a great many horses and swine . These were the first horses and pigs ...
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... hundred years after its deser- tion , this old ship was found sticking up in the mud of the St. Lawrence River . Would you not like to have seen this strange old craft which had felt the tramp of the sailors of St. Malo on her decks ...
... hundred years after its deser- tion , this old ship was found sticking up in the mud of the St. Lawrence River . Would you not like to have seen this strange old craft which had felt the tramp of the sailors of St. Malo on her decks ...
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Page 195 - A hurry of hoofs in a village street, A shape in the moonlight, a bulk in the dark, And beneath from the pebbles, in passing, a spark Struck out by a steed flying fearless and fleet ; That was all ! And yet, through the gloom and the light, The fate of a nation was riding that night ; And the spark struck out by that steed in his flight, Kindled the land into flame with its heat.
Page 195 - LISTEN, my children, and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the eighteenth of April, in Seventyfive ; Hardly a man is now alive Who remembers that famous day and year.
Page 195 - Silently rowed to the Charlestown shore, Just as the moon rose over the bay, Where swinging wide at her moorings lay The Somerset, British man-of-war; A phantom ship, with each mast and spar Across the moon like a prison bar, And a huge black hulk, that was magnified By its own reflection in the tide.
Page 195 - By the trembling ladder, steep and tall, To the highest window in the wall, Where he paused to listen and look down A moment on the roofs of the town, And the moonlight flowing over all.
Page 509 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery.
Page 495 - In her attic window the staff she set, To show that one heart was loyal yet. Up the street came the rebel tread, Stonewall Jackson riding ahead. Under his slouched hat left and right He glanced; the old flag met his sight.
Page 251 - Sympathy towards a soldier will surely induce your Excellency and a military tribunal to adapt the mode of my death to the feelings of a man of honor.
Page 195 - Paul Revere, On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five; Hardly a man is now alive Who remembers that famous day and year. He said to his friend, "If the British march By land or sea from the town tonight, Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch Of the North Church tower as a signal light,— One, if by land, and two, if by sea; And I on the opposite shore will be, Ready to ride and spread the alarm Through every Middlesex village and farm, For the country folk to be up and to arm.
Page 510 - I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union.
Page 550 - Temple of Fame — There, with the glorious General's name, Be it said in letters both bold and bright: "Here is the steed that saved the day, By carrying Sheridan into the fight, From Winchester — twenty miles away!