Adventures and Achievements of Americans: A Series of Narratives Illustrating Their Heroism, Self-reliance, Genius and EnterpriseGeo. F. Tuttle, 1861 - 732 páginas |
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... army during the whole eight years of the Revolu- tionary war , at first as a common soldier , afterward as an officer . My mother had the sole charge of us , four little ones . Our house was a poor one , and far from neighbors . I have ...
... army during the whole eight years of the Revolu- tionary war , at first as a common soldier , afterward as an officer . My mother had the sole charge of us , four little ones . Our house was a poor one , and far from neighbors . I have ...
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... army , and being inclined , as I hope , for good reasons , to accept it , I am constrained to ask as a favor , that which scarce anything else would have induced me to , which is to be excused from keeping your school any longer . For ...
... army , and being inclined , as I hope , for good reasons , to accept it , I am constrained to ask as a favor , that which scarce anything else would have induced me to , which is to be excused from keeping your school any longer . For ...
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... army was nearly annihilated by the defeat of Long Island , and the expiration of the terms for which the sol- diers had enlisted , Hale generously relinquished his own pay to induce the men of his company to remain . Hale's fondness for ...
... army was nearly annihilated by the defeat of Long Island , and the expiration of the terms for which the sol- diers had enlisted , Hale generously relinquished his own pay to induce the men of his company to remain . Hale's fondness for ...
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... army , and claim the country by conquest , or proceed southward and make a descent where no preparation would present a barrier , were questions of anxious import to the American commander , and the solution of which was of vital ...
... army , and claim the country by conquest , or proceed southward and make a descent where no preparation would present a barrier , were questions of anxious import to the American commander , and the solution of which was of vital ...
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... army , then present , here interposed with entreaty , and his requests were finally complied with . There , on the verge of eternity , Hale for the last time communed with his loved ones . It is thought he wrote three letters ; one to ...
... army , then present , here interposed with entreaty , and his requests were finally complied with . There , on the verge of eternity , Hale for the last time communed with his loved ones . It is thought he wrote three letters ; one to ...
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Página 606 - Yet a few days, and thee The all-beholding sun shall see no more In all his course; nor yet in the cold ground, Where thy pale form was laid, with many tears, Nor in the embrace of ocean, shall exist Thy image. Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim Thy growth, to be resolved to earth again...
Página 606 - To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language ; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness ere he is aware.
Página 619 - Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter, In there stepped a stately Raven of the saintly days of yore. Not the least obeisance made he ; not a...
Página 605 - The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket, The moss-covered bucket which hung in the well. That moss-covered vessel I hailed as a treasure, For often at noon, when returned from the field, I found it the source of an exquisite pleasure, The purest and sweetest that nature can yield.
Página 136 - And what have we to oppose to them ? Shall we try argument ? Sir, we have been trying that for the last ten years. Have we anything new to offer upon the subject? Nothing. We have held the subject up in every light of which it is capable; but it has been all in vain.
Página 610 - And now, when comes the calm mild day, as still such days will come, To call the squirrel and the bee from out their winter home; When the sound of dropping nuts is heard, though all the trees are still, And twinkle in the smoky light the waters of the rill, The south wind searches for the flowers whose fragrance late he bore, And sighs to find them in the wood and by the stream no more.
Página 598 - IT WAS many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea, That a maiden there lived whom you may know By the name of ANNABEL LEE; And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me.
Página 619 - December, And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. Eagerly I wished the morrow;— vainly I had sought to borrow From my books surcease of sorrow— sorrow for the lost Lenore, For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore: Nameless here for evermore.
Página 619 - art sure no craven, Ghastly, grim, and ancient Raven, wandering from the nightly shore! Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!
Página 612 - Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave: And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.