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... thousand . Cortez had about six hundred men . The na- tives fought bravely . But the cannon , appalling their hearts with its terrific thunders , swept death and awful mutilation through their ranks . dead left upon the ground at thirty ...
... thousand . Cortez had about six hundred men . The na- tives fought bravely . But the cannon , appalling their hearts with its terrific thunders , swept death and awful mutilation through their ranks . dead left upon the ground at thirty ...
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... thousand huts , of branches and matting , were reared in the vicinity for the accommodation of the Mexicans , who , without recompense , were supplying the table of Cortez and his men . At the expiration of eight days an embassy arrived ...
... thousand huts , of branches and matting , were reared in the vicinity for the accommodation of the Mexicans , who , without recompense , were supplying the table of Cortez and his men . At the expiration of eight days an embassy arrived ...
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... thousand inhab- In the midst of this state of things a singular itants , but a few days ' march from Vera Cruz ... thousands as the stern soldiers of Cortez , headed by the cavalry of sixteen horses , and followed by the lumbering ...
... thousand inhab- In the midst of this state of things a singular itants , but a few days ' march from Vera Cruz ... thousands as the stern soldiers of Cortez , headed by the cavalry of sixteen horses , and followed by the lumbering ...
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... thousand three hundred men . His whole army It was a bright and beautiful morning in Au- gust , 1519 , when this merciless army of fanatics commenced their march of piracy and blood . For two days they moved gayly along through an ...
... thousand three hundred men . His whole army It was a bright and beautiful morning in Au- gust , 1519 , when this merciless army of fanatics commenced their march of piracy and blood . For two days they moved gayly along through an ...
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... thousand men . Prayers and thanksgiving were here offered for the success of the enterprise thus far , and this whole band of blood - stained warriors partook of the sacrament of the Lord's Supper in accordance with the rites of the Ro ...
... thousand men . Prayers and thanksgiving were here offered for the success of the enterprise thus far , and this whole band of blood - stained warriors partook of the sacrament of the Lord's Supper in accordance with the rites of the Ro ...
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Page 273 - WE watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. So silently we seemed to speak, So slowly moved about, As we had lent her half our powers To eke her living out. Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied—- We thought her dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died. For when the morn came, dim and sad, And chill with early showers, Her quiet eyelids closed — she had Another morn than ours.
Page 311 - 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.
Page 310 - It would have been a less painful circumstance to me to have heard, that, in consequence of your non-compliance with their request, they had burned my house and laid the plantation in ruins.
Page 235 - ... fervid sky, and been stared at in return, until a staring habit had become universal there. Strangers were stared out of countenance by staring white houses, staring white walls, staring white streets, staring tracts of arid road, staring hills from which verdure was burnt away. The only things to be seen not fixedly staring and glaring were the vines drooping under their load of grapes.
Page 310 - ... instead of having the prospect of a glorious offensive campaign before us, we have a bewildered and gloomy defensive one, unless we should receive a powerful aid of ships, land troops, and money from our generous allies, and these at present are too contingent to build upon.
Page 266 - They do not die Nor lose their mortal sympathy, Nor change to us, although they change ; 'Rapt from the fickle and the frail With gather'd power, yet the same, Pierces the keen seraphic flame From orb to orb, from veil to veil.
Page 307 - I can assure those gentlemen, that it is a much easier and less distressing thing to draw remonstrances in a comfortable room by a good fireside, than to occupy a cold bleak hill, and sleep under frost and snow, without clothes or blankets.
Page 299 - The supplicating tears of the women and moving petitions of the men melt me into such deadly sorrow, that I solemnly declare, if I know my own mind, I could offer myself a willing sacrifice to the butchering enemy, provided that would contribute to the people's ease.
Page 246 - and those who trained me. How I have hated this day ! " There was the dreary Sunday of his childhood, when he sat with his hands before him, scared out of his senses by a horrible tract which commenced business with the poor child by asking him in its title, why he was going to Perdition...
Page 139 - I KNOW you Lawyers can, with ease, Twist words and meanings as you please; That language, by your skill made pliant, Will bend to favour every client; That 'tis the fee directs the sense, To make out either side's pretence. When you peruse the clearest case, You see it with a double face: For scepticism is your profession ; You hold there's doubt in all expression.