Young Folks' History of the United StatesLee and Shepard, 1875 - 370 páginas |
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... kings of Europe would have been very glad to find a short way thither . This map shows clearly how the wisest men thought it might be done . The drawing was made by a friend of Columbus , in the very year when he made the first western ...
... kings of Europe would have been very glad to find a short way thither . This map shows clearly how the wisest men thought it might be done . The drawing was made by a friend of Columbus , in the very year when he made the first western ...
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... king and queen signed an agreement with him on his own terms . Isabella decided to fit out the expedition at the expense of her own kingdom of Castile , the chief of the kingdoms of which Spain was composed . In three months the ...
... king and queen signed an agreement with him on his own terms . Isabella decided to fit out the expedition at the expense of her own kingdom of Castile , the chief of the kingdoms of which Spain was composed . In three months the ...
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... king . The truth was , that King Ferdinand was quite dissatis fied with the new countries , as not yielding wealtl enough . However , Columbus fitted out one more expe- dition , with four ships , and went on a final voyage , reaching ...
... king . The truth was , that King Ferdinand was quite dissatis fied with the new countries , as not yielding wealtl enough . However , Columbus fitted out one more expe- dition , with four ships , and went on a final voyage , reaching ...
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... King Ferdinand ordered a marble tomb to be placed upon his grave , with the inscription , " To Castile and Leon , Columbus gave a new world . " But , more than two centuries after that , the remains of the great voya- ger were ...
... King Ferdinand ordered a marble tomb to be placed upon his grave , with the inscription , " To Castile and Leon , Columbus gave a new world . " But , more than two centuries after that , the remains of the great voya- ger were ...
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... King Henry VII . of England a " patent , " or permission , allowing himself and his three sons to cruise about the world , at their own expense , with five ships ; and to take possession , in the name of England , of countries hitherto ...
... King Henry VII . of England a " patent , " or permission , allowing himself and his three sons to cruise about the world , at their own expense , with five ships ; and to take possession , in the name of England , of countries hitherto ...
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Página 320 - Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God ; and each invokes his aid against the other.
Página 357 - Done in convention, by the unanimous consent of the States present, the seventeenth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, and of the independence of the United States of America the twelfth.
Página 305 - In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope of earth.
Página 305 - That, on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever, free...
Página 347 - Sect. 4. The times, places, and manner of holding elections for senators and representatives shall be prescribed in each state by the legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by law make or alter such regulations, except as to th.e places of choosing senators.
Página 342 - He has abdicated government here, by declaring us out of his protection, and waging war against us. He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burned our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people. He is, at this time, transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny already begun, with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation.
Página 118 - I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years. For learning has brought disobedience and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both"!
Página 155 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour: The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Página 218 - Welcome, mighty chief, once more, Welcome to this grateful shore: Now no mercenary foe Aims again the fatal blow, Aims at thee the fatal blow. Virgins fair, and matrons grave, These thy conquering arm did save, Build for thee triumphal bowers; Strew, ye fair, his way with flowers, Strew your Hero's way with flowers.
Página 320 - The Almighty has. His own purposes. " Woe unto the world because of offences ! for it must needs be that offences come ; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh.