The Real America in Romance: With Reading Courses, Being a Complete and Authentic History of America from the Time of Columbus to the Present Day, Količina 14

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Wm. H. Wise, 1908
 

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Stran 308 - Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite ideas ; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition.
Stran 136 - If there was- a man in England who excelled in any faculty or science, the Protector would find him out, and reward him according to his merit.
Stran 312 - Yours of this date, proposing armistice and appointment of Commissioners to settle terms of capitulation, is just received. No terms except an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works.
Stran 216 - I then asked him whether he thought the soldiers were abused a great deal after they went down there ; he said he thought they were. I asked him whether he thought the soldiers would have been hurt if they had not fired ; he said he really thought they would, for he heard many voices cry out,
Stran 240 - In the despondency of long-continued failure, in the elation of sudden success, at times when his soldiers were deserting by hundreds and when malignant plots were formed against his reputation, amid the constant quarrels, rivalries, and jealousies of his subordinates, in the dark hour of national ingratitude, and in the midst of the most universal and intoxicating flattery, he was always the same calm, wise, just, and single-minded man, pursuing the course which he believed to be right...
Stran 328 - Secretary of the Treasury, Secretary of War, Attorney-General, Postmaster-General, Secretary of the Navy, and Secretary of the Interior.
Stran 220 - I do hereby in his majesty's name, offer and promise his most gracious pardon, to all persons who shall forthwith lay down their arms, and return to the duties of peaceable subjects, excepting only from the benefit of such pardon, SAMUEL ADAMS and JOHN HANCOCK, whose offences are of too flagitious a nature to admit of any other consideration than that of condign punishment.
Stran 336 - When the war-drum throbs no longer, And the battle-flags are furled In the parliament of man, The federation of the world.
Stran 181 - Acadian farmers, — Men whose lives glided on like rivers that water the woodlands, Darkened by shadows of earth, but reflecting an image of heaven...
Stran 232 - Do this, and he doeth it ;" but I am obliged to say, " This is the reason why you ought to do that," and then he does it were as raw as my soldiora.

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