The American Manual, Or, New English Reader: Consisting of Exercises in Reading and Speaking, Both in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best Writers : to which are Added, a Succinct History of the Colonies, from the Discovery of North America to the Close of the War of the Revolution, the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States, and of the State of New York : for the Use of SchoolsHenry, Hitchcock, & Company, 1841 - 300 páginas |
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... army ; every sword will be drawn from its scabbard , and the solemn vow uttered , to maintain it or to perish on the bed of honor . 15. " Publish it from the pulpit ; religion will approve it , and the love of religious liberty will ...
... army ; every sword will be drawn from its scabbard , and the solemn vow uttered , to maintain it or to perish on the bed of honor . 15. " Publish it from the pulpit ; religion will approve it , and the love of religious liberty will ...
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... army , 8. Veterans ! You are the remnant of many a well - fought field . You bring with you marks of honor from Trenton and Monmouth , from Yorktown , Camden , Bennington , and Saratoga . VETERANS OF HALF A CENTURY ! when in your ...
... army , 8. Veterans ! You are the remnant of many a well - fought field . You bring with you marks of honor from Trenton and Monmouth , from Yorktown , Camden , Bennington , and Saratoga . VETERANS OF HALF A CENTURY ! when in your ...
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... army against the Turks . His undaunted temper , deeply tinctured with the romantic spirit of the times , was happily adapted to the present trying situation of the colony . 13. Soon after he had been called as their leader , while ...
... army against the Turks . His undaunted temper , deeply tinctured with the romantic spirit of the times , was happily adapted to the present trying situation of the colony . 13. Soon after he had been called as their leader , while ...
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... army in America , but this from principle he declined . After the contest was decided , he died at the age of ninety - seven years , being the oldest gene . ral in the British service . QUESTIONS . By whom was New York first settled ...
... army in America , but this from principle he declined . After the contest was decided , he died at the age of ninety - seven years , being the oldest gene . ral in the British service . QUESTIONS . By whom was New York first settled ...
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... army was forced back , and the whole thrown nto confusion . The slaughter was dreadful . Braddock was mortally wounded . What was remarkable , the provincial troops preserved their order , and covered the retreat under Washington ...
... army was forced back , and the whole thrown nto confusion . The slaughter was dreadful . Braddock was mortally wounded . What was remarkable , the provincial troops preserved their order , and covered the retreat under Washington ...
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Página 202 - Then kneeling down, to Heaven's eternal King, The saint, the father, and the husband prays: Hope "springs exulting on triumphant wing," That thus they all shall meet in future days, There ever bask in uncreated rays, No more to sigh, or shed the bitter tear, Together hymning their Creator's praise. In such society, yet still more dear; While circling time moves round in an eternal sphere.
Página 269 - To establish post offices and post roads; To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries...
Página 207 - Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they? Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since ; their shores obey The stranger, slave or savage ; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts — not so thou Unchangeable, save to thy wild waves
Página 109 - There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone ; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.
Página 109 - We have petitioned ; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and parliament. Our petitions have been slighted ; our remonstrances have produced additional violence and insult; our supplications have been disregarded; and we have been spurned with contempt from the foot of the throne.
Página 223 - Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere, Heaven did a recompense as largely send: He gave to Misery all he had, a tear, He gained from Heaven ('twas all he wished) a friend.
Página 109 - If we wish to be free, if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending, if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained, we must fight ; I repeat it. sir, we must fight ! An appeal to arms, and to the God of Hosts, is all that is left us ! They tell us, sir, that we are weak, unable to cope...
Página 108 - I ask, gentlemen — sir — what means this martial array, if its purpose be not to force us to submission ? Can gentlemen assign any other possible motive for it ? Has Great Britain any enemy in this quarter of the world, to call for all this accumulation of navies and armies?
Página 221 - Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire; Hands that the rod of empire might have swayed, Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre...
Página 108 - Has Great Britain any enemy in this quarter of the world, to call for all this accumulation of navies and armies? No, sir, she has none. They are meant for us: they can be meant for no other. They are sent over to bind and rivet upon us those chains, which the British ministry have been so long forging.