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... suffered much , and were often near starving . Many fell sick , and not a few died . 7. Had it not been for the exertions of one man , whose story I will tell you at the end of this chapter , the colony would have perished . But , after ...
... suffered much , and were often near starving . Many fell sick , and not a few died . 7. Had it not been for the exertions of one man , whose story I will tell you at the end of this chapter , the colony would have perished . But , after ...
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... suffered so much from the harshness of his new master , that one day , when alone in the field together , he fought with and slew him . Seizing a horse , he made his escape . 6. At last he returned to his native England , and reached it ...
... suffered so much from the harshness of his new master , that one day , when alone in the field together , he fought with and slew him . Seizing a horse , he made his escape . 6. At last he returned to his native England , and reached it ...
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... suffered so much from the hard climate , and sickness , and famine , that by the time spring came more than half their number had perished . 5. The year before the Pilgrims came , a pestilence had carried off a great many of the savage ...
... suffered so much from the hard climate , and sickness , and famine , that by the time spring came more than half their number had perished . 5. The year before the Pilgrims came , a pestilence had carried off a great many of the savage ...
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... suffer during the winter ? What was the con- sequence of these disasters ? 5. Why were they unmolested by the savages ? With what words did the first Indian greet them ? What was his name ? Where did he come from ? Of whom had he ...
... suffer during the winter ? What was the con- sequence of these disasters ? 5. Why were they unmolested by the savages ? With what words did the first Indian greet them ? What was his name ? Where did he come from ? Of whom had he ...
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... suffering . His father turned him out of doors , and it was a mother's love only that saved him from starving . The firmness and gentleness of William Penn afterwards gained for him the admiration and entire forgive- ness of his father ...
... suffering . His father turned him out of doors , and it was a mother's love only that saved him from starving . The firmness and gentleness of William Penn afterwards gained for him the admiration and entire forgive- ness of his father ...
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Page 26 - And the heavy night hung dark The hills and waters o'er, When a band of exiles moored their bark On the wild New England shore. Not as the conqueror comes, They, the true-hearted, came ; Not with the roll of the stirring drums, And the trumpet that sings of fame ; Not as the flying come, In silence and in fear ; — They shook the depths of the desert gloom With their hymns of lofty cheer.
Page 26 - This was their welcome home! There were men with hoary hair Amidst that pilgrim band; — Why had they come to wither there, Away from their childhood's land? There was woman's fearless eye, Lit by her deep love's truth; There was manhood's brow serenely high, And the fiery heart of youth.
Page 108 - Oh ! say, can you see, by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming, Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming? And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through, the night that our flag was still there.
Page 108 - And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. Oh, say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave?
Page 109 - Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave: And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave O'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave!
Page 108 - Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. Oh, say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave? On the 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, half conceals, half discloses?
Page 108 - 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?
Page 109 - Blest with victory and peace, may the heaven-rescued land Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation ! Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just, And this be our motto:
Page 59 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour.
Page 92 - First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen," was originally used in the resolutions presented to Congress on the death of Washington, December, 1799.