Howard Pyle's Book of the American Spirit: The Romance of American HistoryFrancis Joseph Dowd Harper & Brothers, 1923 - 344 strani |
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1817 LIBRARIES American Amsterdam Andros arms army arrived attack became Boston British called Captain charter CHASED DOCTOR Church COLONIES AND NATION colonists command Congress Continental Army Continental Congress Curaçoa death declared Dutch Endicott England English fleet followed Fort Moultrie France French Genêt GILES COREY girls governor Harper's Magazine House Howard Pyle Hudson hundred Illustration from COLONIES independence Indians Island James Jamestown Jefferson Jersey John John Bach McMaster July king king's land March MARY DYER Massachusetts ment MICHIGAN Miriam NATION by Woodrow negroes Netherland North officers patriots peace Penn Philadelphia Plymouth President province Quakers Revolution River Rowand sailed Salem Salle savages says sent settlement settlers Sevier ship Sir Edmund slaves soldiers South Stuyvesant surrender tavern taxes Thomas Thomas Wentworth Higginson Tonti took town trade troops UNIVERSITY Valley vessels Virginia Washington wilderness William Penn Wilson Originally published Woodrow Wilson Originally York young
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Stran 262 - Filling a glass, he turned to them and said, "with a heart full of love and gratitude, I now take leave of you ; I most devoutly wish that your latter days may be as prosperous and happy, as your former ones have been glorious and honorable.
Stran 254 - Can you then consent to be the only sufferers by this revolution, and retiring from the field, grow old in poverty, wretchedness, and contempt ? Can you consent to wade through the vile mire of dependency, and owe the miserable remnant of that life to charity...
Stran 282 - The liberty of the whole earth was depending on the issue of the contest and was ever such a prize won with so little innocent blood? My own affections have been deeply wounded by some of the martyrs to this cause, but rather than it should have failed, I would have seen half the earth desolated. Were there but an Adam and an Eve left in every country, and left free, it would be better than as it now is.
Stran 254 - Gentlemen, you will permit me to put on my spectacles, • for I have not only grown gray, but almost blind, in the service of my country.
Stran 317 - Are you a prophet? He replied: I am neither a prophet nor the son of a prophet, but I learnt this from experience.
Stran 96 - I choose to solve the controversy with this small distinction, and it belongs to all three: any government is free to the people under it (whatever be the frame) where the laws rule and the people are a party to those laws, and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or confusion.
Stran 290 - Sarah now at Chester ? Is the minister of the French Republic to set the acts of this government at defiance with impunity ? And then threaten the executive with an appeal to the people ? What must the world think of such conduct, and of the government of the United States in submitting to it?
Stran 254 - And let me conjure you, in the name of our common country, as you value your own sacred honor, as you respect the rights of humanity, and as you regard the military and national character of America, to express your utmost horror and detestation of the man who wishes, under any specious pretences, to overturn the liberties of our country ; and who wickedly attempts to open the flood-gates of civil discord, and deluge our rising empire in blood.
Stran 44 - the old fool has put to death more people in that naked country than I did for the murder of my father"; and he showed little patience when the old man carne home to make his peace.
Stran 21 - Plymouth. The settlement of this colony occasioned the settlement of Massachusetts Bay, which was the source of all the other colonies of New England. Virginia was in a dying state, and seemed to revive and flourish from the example of New England.