The national reading books, adapted to the government code. adapted to the new code, 1871, Volumen6 |
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... fire with all the precision of a movement on parade ; and our troops , though swept down by hundreds , would not be beaten . They scaled the heights , and drove the Russians from them at the point of the bayonet . Equally impetuous was ...
... fire with all the precision of a movement on parade ; and our troops , though swept down by hundreds , would not be beaten . They scaled the heights , and drove the Russians from them at the point of the bayonet . Equally impetuous was ...
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... fire upon the Russian artillery , and actually sabred the gunners at their guns . But , meanwhile , they found themselves completely surrounded by the Russian hosts . Already terribly weakened , — Captain Nolan , by the way , was the ...
... fire upon the Russian artillery , and actually sabred the gunners at their guns . But , meanwhile , they found themselves completely surrounded by the Russian hosts . Already terribly weakened , — Captain Nolan , by the way , was the ...
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... fires ; wolves annoyed the men ; the blood of the horses was drunk by the famishing troops , of whom , on reaching France , only 50,000 were left out of 500,000 who had set out on the perilous expedition . Yet , strange to say , he was ...
... fires ; wolves annoyed the men ; the blood of the horses was drunk by the famishing troops , of whom , on reaching France , only 50,000 were left out of 500,000 who had set out on the perilous expedition . Yet , strange to say , he was ...
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... fire , the whole English line advanced , Wellington shut up his field - glass or telescope , the French were panic stricken , all was over , and Napoleon , setting spurs to his horse , galloped off towards Charleroi , on the road to ...
... fire , the whole English line advanced , Wellington shut up his field - glass or telescope , the French were panic stricken , all was over , and Napoleon , setting spurs to his horse , galloped off towards Charleroi , on the road to ...
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... fire of artillery from the batteries cast it into the sea . A prodigious sensation was created both at home and abroad by this daring act . In America public opinion ran strongly in its favour , and in every colony there were leaders ...
... fire of artillery from the batteries cast it into the sea . A prodigious sensation was created both at home and abroad by this daring act . In America public opinion ran strongly in its favour , and in every colony there were leaders ...
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Página 27 - 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 105 - Or mild concerns of ordinary life, A constant influence, a peculiar grace; But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for human kind, Is happy as a Lover; and attired With sudden brightness, like a Man inspired; And, through the heat of conflict, keeps the law In calmness made, and sees what he foresaw...
Página 237 - Let's dry our eyes: and thus far hear me, Cromwell; And, when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And sleep in dull cold marble, where no mention Of me more must be heard of, say, I taught thee...
Página 250 - Speak, father!" once again he cried, "If I may yet be gone!" And but the booming shots replied, And fast the flames rolled on.
Página 238 - How many thousand of my poorest subjects Are at this hour asleep ! O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eye-lids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness ? Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hush'd with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber ; Than in the perfum'd chambers of the great, Under the canopies of costly state, And lull'd with sounds of sweetest melody?
Página 237 - Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition: By that sin fell the angels. How can man then, The image of his Maker, hope to win by it?
Página 247 - Tis brightness all ; save where the new snow melts Along the mazy current. Low, the woods Bow their hoar head ; and, ere the languid Sun Faint from the west emits his evening ray, Earth's universal face, deep hid and chill, Is one wild dazzling waste, that buries wide The works of man.
Página 250 - The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands ; And the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands.
Página 194 - She was dead. No sleep so beautiful and calm, so free from trace of pain, so fair to look upon. She seemed a creature fresh from the hand of God, and waiting for the breath of life ; not one who had lived and suffered death.
Página 224 - Will, is a particular favourite of all the young heirs, whom he frequently obliges with a net that he has weaved, or a settingdog that he has made himself : He now and then presents a pair of garters of his own knitting to their mothers or sisters ; and raises a great deal of mirth among them, by inquiring as often as he meets them how they wear ? These gentlemanlike manufactures and obliging little humours, make Will, the darling of the country.