An Elementary History of Our CountryHoughton Mifflin Company, 1914 - Počet stran: 256 |
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... nation . Though an introductory history must necessarily be limited in size , it is believed that there can be gained from this volume a definite knowledge of the main events in the history of our land , some idea of the causes of those ...
... nation . Though an introductory history must necessarily be limited in size , it is believed that there can be gained from this volume a definite knowledge of the main events in the history of our land , some idea of the causes of those ...
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... nation . He has constrained our fellow - citizens , taken captive on the high seas , to bear arms against their country , to become the executioners of their friends and brethren , or to fall themselves by their hands . He has excited ...
... nation . He has constrained our fellow - citizens , taken captive on the high seas , to bear arms against their country , to become the executioners of their friends and brethren , or to fall themselves by their hands . He has excited ...
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... nation that controlled it need not envy Spain her wealth , for trade with the Indies would be as valuable as a gold mine . In 1534 a French- man named Jacques Car- tier went in search of the passage . He seems to have thought that there ...
... nation that controlled it need not envy Spain her wealth , for trade with the Indies would be as valuable as a gold mine . In 1534 a French- man named Jacques Car- tier went in search of the passage . He seems to have thought that there ...
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... nations to lands around the Gulf of Mexico and to the south of it . The English had sailed to Newfoundland and Labrador . The French had explored the Saint Lawrence . Both English and French had explored part of the eastern coast of ...
... nations to lands around the Gulf of Mexico and to the south of it . The English had sailed to Newfoundland and Labrador . The French had explored the Saint Lawrence . Both English and French had explored part of the eastern coast of ...
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... nation . full of English towns , " he thought , " what need will there be of trading with Asia ? Will not this American England give us a market for our manufac- tures ? " Raleigh was a rich man , and he straightway sent out two ships ...
... nation . full of English towns , " he thought , " what need will there be of trading with Asia ? Will not this American England give us a market for our manufac- tures ? " Raleigh was a rich man , and he straightway sent out two ships ...
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Strana 248 - But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts — for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own Governments, for the rights and liberties of small nations, for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free.
Strana 142 - You know the rest. In the books you have read, How the British regulars fired and fled, How the farmers gave them ball for ball, From behind each fence and farm-yard wall, Chasing the red-coats down the lane, Then crossing the fields to emerge again Under the trees at the turn of the road, And only pausing to fire and load.
Strana 222 - I beg to present you, as a Christmas gift, the city of Savannah, with one hundred and fifty heavy guns and plenty of ammunition ; also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton.
Strana 43 - I'll have thrice the weight in gold. Why, man, all their dripping-pans and their chamber-pots are pure gold, and all the chains with which they chain up their streets are massy gold. All the prisoners they take are fettered in gold. And for rubies and diamonds, they go forth on holidays and gather them by the sea-shore to hang on their children's coats and stick in their caps, as commonly as our children wear saffron gilt brooches and groats with holes in them.
Strana 135 - ... may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it...