Hero Tales from American HistoryCentury Company, 1895 - 335 páginas |
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... assault until the next morning . Many lessons had not yet taught him that it was a fatal business to give even twelve hours to the great soldier opposed to him . During the night Washington , leaving his fires burning and taking a ...
... assault until the next morning . Many lessons had not yet taught him that it was a fatal business to give even twelve hours to the great soldier opposed to him . During the night Washington , leaving his fires burning and taking a ...
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... assault , surrounded by darker conditions than the storms of nature which gathered about his boat , and carrying with him the fortunes of his country , was at that mo- ment one of the most heroic figures in history . BENNINGTON We are ...
... assault , surrounded by darker conditions than the storms of nature which gathered about his boat , and carrying with him the fortunes of his country , was at that mo- ment one of the most heroic figures in history . BENNINGTON We are ...
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... assault , and the Americans proceeded to storm the British intrenchments on every side . The fight was a very hot one , and lasted some two hours . Indians , at the beginning of the action , slipped away between the American detachments ...
... assault , and the Americans proceeded to storm the British intrenchments on every side . The fight was a very hot one , and lasted some two hours . Indians , at the beginning of the action , slipped away between the American detachments ...
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... assault succeeded another , while the firing on both sides was so incessant as to make , in Stark's own words , a " continuous roar . " At the end of two hours the Americans finally swarmed over the in- trenchments , beating down the ...
... assault succeeded another , while the firing on both sides was so incessant as to make , in Stark's own words , a " continuous roar . " At the end of two hours the Americans finally swarmed over the in- trenchments , beating down the ...
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... assault was made . Most of his militia he scattered around the top of the hill to fire down at the Americans as they came up , while with his regulars and with a few picked militia he charged with the bayonet in person , first down one ...
... assault was made . Most of his militia he scattered around the top of the hill to fire down at the Americans as they came up , while with his regulars and with a few picked militia he charged with the bayonet in person , first down one ...
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Página 325 - Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said "the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
Página 164 - THE muffled drum's sad roll has beat The soldier's last tattoo ; No more on life's parade shall meet That brave and fallen few. On fame's eternal camping ground Their silent tents are spread, And glory guards, with solemn round, The bivouac of the dead.
Página 22 - Have the elder races halted? Do they droop and end their lesson, wearied over there beyond the seas? We take up the task eternal, and the burden and the lesson, Pioneers ! O pioneers...
Página 314 - O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells: Rise up — for you the flag is flung — for you the bugle trills, For you bouquets and ribbon'd wreaths — for you the shores a-crowding, For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning; Here Captain! dear father! This arm beneath your head! It is some dream that on the deck You've fallen cold and dead.
Página 325 - ANY DEPARTURE FROM THOSE DIVINE ATTRIBUTES WHICH THE BELIEVERS IN A LIVING GOD ALWAYS ASCRIBE TO HIM. FONDLY DO WE HOPE — FERVENTLY DO WE PRAY — THAT THIS MIGHTY SCOURGE OF WAR MAY SPEEDILY PASS AWAY. YET IF GOD WILLS THAT IT CONTINUE UNTIL ALL THE WEALTH PILED BY THE BONDSMAN'S TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS...
Página 314 - My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still, My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will, The ship is...
Página 94 - Set you down this ; And say besides, that in Aleppo once, Where a malignant and a turban'd Turk Beat a Venetian and traduced the state, I took by the throat the circumcised dog, And smote him, thus.
Página 164 - Their shivered swords are red with rust, Their plumed heads are bowed; Their haughty banner, trailed in dust, Is now their martial shroud. And plenteous funeral tears have washed The red stains from each brow, And the proud forms, by battle gashed, Are free from anguish now. The...
Página 62 - Woe to the English soldiery That little dread us near ! On them shall light at midnight A strange and sudden fear : When, waking to their tents on fire, They grasp their arms in vain, And they who stand to face us Are beat to earth again...
Página 84 - JUSTUM et tenacem propositi virum Non civium ardor prava jubentium, Non vultus instantis tyranni Mente quatit solida, neque Auster, Dux inquieti turbidus Adriae, 5 Nee fulminantis magna manus Jovis : Si fractus illabatur orbis, * Impavidum ferient ruinae.