American Ideals: Selected Patriotic Readings for Seventh and Eighth Grades and Junior High SchoolsGregg Publishing Company, 1919 - 159 strani |
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Aaron Burr ABRAHAM LINCOLN American army asked BARBARA FRIETCHIE battle Blue boat brave Burr Captain Congress cruise dead dear deck Dixie duty eyes father fellow flag Fort Adams FRANCIS SCOTT KEY freedom German give glory Governor grave gray gray horse Hail half-staff hand hath hear heard heart Heaven honor hymn Jennie M'Neal JOSEPH HOPKINSON JULIA WARD justice King land liberty Lincoln lives look mankind ment Mollie Pitcher nation Navy never night o'er officer patriotism Paul Revere peace peddler Philip Nolan poor Nolan President ride Ring sail ship shore shouted Sir Edmund Andros smile soldiers song soul stand star-spangled banner stars stateroom stood story street sword talk tell Texas thee thing thought to-day told United Vaughan walked Washington White WILLIAM MCKINLEY words
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Stran 137 - I have seen Him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps; They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps; I can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps; His day is marching on. I have read a fiery gospel, writ in burnished rows of steel: "As ye deal with my contemners, so with you my grace shall deal; 10 Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel, Since God is marching on.
Stran 128 - AY, tear her tattered ensign down! Long has it waved on high, And many an eye has danced to see That banner in the sky; Beneath it rung the battle shout, And burst the cannon's roar; — The meteor of the ocean air Shall sweep the clouds no more. Her deck, once red with heroes...
Stran 136 - My native country, thee, Land of the noble, free. Thy name I love ; I love thy rocks and rills, Thy woods and templed hills: My heart with rapture thrills Like that above.
Stran 154 - The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty. We have no selfish ends to serve. We desire no conquest, no dominion. We seek no indemnities for ourselves, no material compensation for the sacrifices we shall freely make. We are but one of the champions of the rights of mankind.
Stran 49 - ... and for the opportunities I have thence enjoyed of manifesting my inviolable attachment by services faithful and persevering, though in usefulness unequal to my zeal. If benefits have resulted to our country from these services, let it always be remembered to your praise and as an instructive example in our annals that, under circumstances in which the passions agitated in every direction were liable to mislead...
Stran 117 - If the British march By land or sea from the town tonight, Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch Of the North Church tower as a signal light...
Stran 101 - He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
Stran 117 - Silently rowed to the Charlestown shore, Just as the moon rose over the bay. Where swinging wide at her moorings lay The Somerset, British man-of-war; A phantom ship, with each mast and spar Across the moon like a prison bar, And a huge black hulk, that was magnified By its own reflection in the tide.
Stran 40 - But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.
Stran 88 - O'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave? On that shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep, Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, now conceals, now discloses?