The Story of the World for Children of the British Empire, Book 4W. Blackwood & Sons, 1903 |
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... never the twain shall meet . " -KIPLING . THE wonderful story of England's conquest of India reads , even to - day , like some fairy legend of the Old World . It is the story of how one small island , away in the Northern seas ...
... never the twain shall meet . " -KIPLING . THE wonderful story of England's conquest of India reads , even to - day , like some fairy legend of the Old World . It is the story of how one small island , away in the Northern seas ...
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... never sets . " Her first great conquest was that of India or Hindostan the land of the Hindoos . - It is a country cut off from Asia by a lofty range of mountains known as the Hima - laya , or snow abode . Here are some of the highest ...
... never sets . " Her first great conquest was that of India or Hindostan the land of the Hindoos . - It is a country cut off from Asia by a lofty range of mountains known as the Hima - laya , or snow abode . Here are some of the highest ...
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... never seen Quebec , the city he was sent out to capture ; but he knew that Montcalm , the French general , had four times as many troops as he had , and he spared no pains to make his own troops as efficient as possible . " If valour ...
... never seen Quebec , the city he was sent out to capture ; but he knew that Montcalm , the French general , had four times as many troops as he had , and he spared no pains to make his own troops as efficient as possible . " If valour ...
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... never despaired . He would perform this last service if it were possible . He seized Point Levi , exactly opposite the city of Quebec . This gave him complete command of the river mouth . From here , too , his troops could fire across ...
... never despaired . He would perform this last service if it were possible . He seized Point Levi , exactly opposite the city of Quebec . This gave him complete command of the river mouth . From here , too , his troops could fire across ...
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... whom he had kept at bay for months , now stood with an army of 4500 men in line of battle on the plains of Abraham , overlooking Quebec . Never a word of dismay uttered the 32 DEATH OF WOLFE . [ 1759 . French general.
... whom he had kept at bay for months , now stood with an army of 4500 men in line of battle on the plains of Abraham , overlooking Quebec . Never a word of dismay uttered the 32 DEATH OF WOLFE . [ 1759 . French general.
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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.