The Story of the World for Children of the British Empire, Book 4W. Blackwood & Sons, 1903 |
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... peace , and first in the hearts of his fellow - citizens . " 6. HOW PITT SAVED ENGLAND . " If England to itself do rest but true . " -SHAKSPERE . WHEN war was formally declared between France and England in 1756 , it seemed as if the ...
... peace , and first in the hearts of his fellow - citizens . " 6. HOW PITT SAVED ENGLAND . " If England to itself do rest but true . " -SHAKSPERE . WHEN war was formally declared between France and England in 1756 , it seemed as if the ...
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... peace . " That night , within the ruined city of Quebec , lay Montcalm mortally wounded . " How long have I to live ? " he asked painfully . " Twelve hours possibly , " they answered him . 66 So much the better , " murmured the defeated ...
... peace . " That night , within the ruined city of Quebec , lay Montcalm mortally wounded . " How long have I to live ? " he asked painfully . " Twelve hours possibly , " they answered him . 66 So much the better , " murmured the defeated ...
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... peace between England and France , but an unsatisfactory state of things arising beyond the seas in America . It had cost England very large sums of money to save her colonies from the French . She now de- manded those colonies ...
... peace between England and France , but an unsatisfactory state of things arising beyond the seas in America . It had cost England very large sums of money to save her colonies from the French . She now de- manded those colonies ...
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... peace . As he stepped forward to accept the honoured post a great shout of joy arose from the enthusi- astic colonists . He looked an old man now , grown grey and blind in the service of his country . Dressed in simple dark - brown ...
... peace . As he stepped forward to accept the honoured post a great shout of joy arose from the enthusi- astic colonists . He looked an old man now , grown grey and blind in the service of his country . Dressed in simple dark - brown ...
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... peace , and prosperity . Bruce sailed up the Nile , past Thebes , 1 to the first cataract at Assuan . He visited the ruins of Karnak and Luxor , and , crossing the desert on a camel , embarked at a little mud - walled village on the ...
... peace , and prosperity . Bruce sailed up the Nile , past Thebes , 1 to the first cataract at Assuan . He visited the ruins of Karnak and Luxor , and , crossing the desert on a camel , embarked at a little mud - walled village on the ...
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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.