The Story of the World for Children of the British Empire, Book 4W. Blackwood & Sons, 1903 |
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... arms over the broad seas that had once been her barriers , until , by her untiring energy , she won for herself an empire " on which the sun never sets . " Her first great conquest was that of India or Hindostan the land of the Hindoos ...
... arms over the broad seas that had once been her barriers , until , by her untiring energy , she won for herself an empire " on which the sun never sets . " Her first great conquest was that of India or Hindostan the land of the Hindoos ...
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... arms stretched out by France over the fur - bearing regions around Hudson's Bay . But it was in the south that the coming storm was now brewing ; it was to the south that the French governor was looking with those dreams of empire that ...
... arms stretched out by France over the fur - bearing regions around Hudson's Bay . But it was in the south that the coming storm was now brewing ; it was to the south that the French governor was looking with those dreams of empire that ...
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... arms , brave boy , " said his father , drawing George to him ; " I would rather every tree I possess were killed , than that you should deceive me . " When he was about eight years old the big brother Lawrence returned from England ...
... arms , brave boy , " said his father , drawing George to him ; " I would rather every tree I possess were killed , than that you should deceive me . " When he was about eight years old the big brother Lawrence returned from England ...
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... arms , as if on parade . Silent and motionless they stood amid the rain of French bullets and the din of French cheers . Then came the order to fire . Since the invention of gunpowder never had such a tremendous volley been delivered ...
... arms , as if on parade . Silent and motionless they stood amid the rain of French bullets and the din of French cheers . Then came the order to fire . Since the invention of gunpowder never had such a tremendous volley been delivered ...
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... arms . ' 29 For the first time in their history the colonies united in the face of a common danger . The colonists held a great Congress . Each colony was represented , and they resolved to resist the Stamp Act . England was startled by ...
... arms . ' 29 For the first time in their history the colonies united in the face of a common danger . The colonists held a great Congress . Each colony was represented , and they resolved to resist the Stamp Act . England was startled by ...
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Page 121 - Ye are brothers ! ye are men ! And we conquer but to save ; So peace instead of death let us bring ; But yield, proud foe, thy fleet, With the crews, at England's feet, And make submission meet To our king.
Page 169 - NOT a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried. We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning; By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast...
Page 129 - May the great God whom I worship, grant to my country, and for the benefit of Europe in general, a great and glorious victory, and may no misconduct in any one tarnish it, and may humanity after victory be the predominant feature in the British fleet!
Page 24 - Resolved, That a committee, in conjunction with one from the Senate, be appointed to consider on the most suitable manner of paying honor to the memory of the man, first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his fellow-citizens.
Page 169 - Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried. We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning ; By the struggling moonbeam's misty light And the lantern dimly burning.
Page 138 - Burke, moved even to tears, exclaimed, "It is not a chip of the old block; it is the old block itself.
Page 169 - By the struggling moonbeam's misty light And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud we wound him; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest With his martial cloak around him. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow, But we steadfastly gazed on the face of the dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow.
Page 115 - THE boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but he had fled ; The flame that lit the battle's wreck, Shoae round him o'er the dead.
Page 218 - There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her Beauty and her Chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men...
Page 41 - I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest.