The Story of the World for Children of the British Empire, Book 4W. Blackwood & Sons, 1903 |
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... dead in heaps upon the floor . And even to - day , though nearly 150 years have passed away since that horrible crime , the Black Hole of Calcutta cannot be mentioned without a shudder . The tale of horror thrilled through the British ...
... dead in heaps upon the floor . And even to - day , though nearly 150 years have passed away since that horrible crime , the Black Hole of Calcutta cannot be mentioned without a shudder . The tale of horror thrilled through the British ...
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... dead in heaps . Then Wolfe sprang forward , at the head of his men , sword in hand , and the whole line advanced . At that moment the sun burst forth , lighting up the gleaming bayonets and flashing swords . Another moment and Wolfe ...
... dead in heaps . Then Wolfe sprang forward , at the head of his men , sword in hand , and the whole line advanced . At that moment the sun burst forth , lighting up the gleaming bayonets and flashing swords . Another moment and Wolfe ...
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... dead . Men denounced it openly . " Cæsar , " cried one in a voice of thunder , " had his Brutus , Charles the First had his Cromwell , and George the Third- " " " Treason ! treason ! " shouted his hearers . The young colonist paused ...
... dead . Men denounced it openly . " Cæsar , " cried one in a voice of thunder , " had his Brutus , Charles the First had his Cromwell , and George the Third- " " " Treason ! treason ! " shouted his hearers . The young colonist paused ...
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... dead to all feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves would have been fit in- struments to make slaves of the rest . " His words carried conviction : the Stamp Act was repealed . In America the news was received with en ...
... dead to all feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves would have been fit in- struments to make slaves of the rest . " His words carried conviction : the Stamp Act was repealed . In America the news was received with en ...
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... dead upon the fire - swept slope . " Are the Yankees cowards ? " shouted the men of Massachusetts , as the English retreated before them . But there came a time when the colonial troops could hold out no longer . They had fired their ...
... dead upon the fire - swept slope . " Are the Yankees cowards ? " shouted the men of Massachusetts , as the English retreated before them . But there came a time when the colonial troops could hold out no longer . They had fired their ...
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Popular passages
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.