The Historical Reader: Designed for Use of Schools and Families. On a New PlanHoratio Hill & Company; Hill & Barton, printers, 1830 - 372 sider |
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... Liberty 257 Capture of Mrs. Duston 258 New England Witchcraft 261 Peter the Great 268 General Oglethorpe 269 Benjamin Franklin 271 Destruction of Tea at Boston 272 First American Congress 276 Battle of Bunker's Hill 278 Burning of ...
... Liberty 257 Capture of Mrs. Duston 258 New England Witchcraft 261 Peter the Great 268 General Oglethorpe 269 Benjamin Franklin 271 Destruction of Tea at Boston 272 First American Congress 276 Battle of Bunker's Hill 278 Burning of ...
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... liberty against tyrannical oppression , and a few disciplined veteran troops against a confused multitude , though ever so numerous . 9. These brave Lacedæmonians thought it became them , who were the choicest soldiers of the chief ...
... liberty against tyrannical oppression , and a few disciplined veteran troops against a confused multitude , though ever so numerous . 9. These brave Lacedæmonians thought it became them , who were the choicest soldiers of the chief ...
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... liberty ; an hatred and detestation of slavery and tyranny ; which were sentiments natural to the Athenians , but undoubtedly very much augmented and in- flamed in them by the very presence of Hippias , whom they dreaded to have again ...
... liberty ; an hatred and detestation of slavery and tyranny ; which were sentiments natural to the Athenians , but undoubtedly very much augmented and in- flamed in them by the very presence of Hippias , whom they dreaded to have again ...
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... liberty to hear and see all that passed . 4. When all was ready , and Cyrus had commanded silence , he began with requiring of the king , that in all the questions he was going to propose to him , he would answer sincerely , because ...
... liberty to hear and see all that passed . 4. When all was ready , and Cyrus had commanded silence , he began with requiring of the king , that in all the questions he was going to propose to him , he would answer sincerely , because ...
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... liberty , sceptre , life , wives , and children , all restored to him with such a generosity ; where can you find , illustrious prince , in one single person , so many strong and powerful ties to attach him to your service ? " " 9 How ...
... liberty , sceptre , life , wives , and children , all restored to him with such a generosity ; where can you find , illustrious prince , in one single person , so many strong and powerful ties to attach him to your service ? " " 9 How ...
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Side 157 - His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and, wave your tops, ye Pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave. Fountains, and ye that warble, as ye flow, Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise.
Side 157 - Air, and ye elements, the eldest birth Of Nature's womb, that in quaternion run Perpetual circle, multiform ; and mix And nourish all things ; let your ceaseless change Vary to our great Maker still new praise.
Side 22 - Tis pleasant through the loop-holes of retreat To peep at such a world. To see the stir Of the great Babel and not feel the crowd. To hear the roar she sends through all her gates At a safe distance, where the dying sound Falls a soft murmur on the uninjured ear.
Side 69 - THOU hast left them to their own. But, present still, though now unseen ; When brightly shines the prosperous day, Be thoughts of THEE a cloudy screen To temper the deceitful ray. And...
Side 104 - Cease, then, nor Order, Imperfection name—• Our proper bliss depends on what we blame. Know thy own point: this kind, this due degree Of blindness, weakness, Heaven bestows on thee. Submit; — in this, or any other sphere, Secure to be as blest as thou canst bear — Safe in the hand of one disposing Power, Or in the natal, or the mortal hour.
Side 68 - When Israel, of the Lord beloved, Out from the land of bondage came, Her father's God before her moved, An awful guide, in smoke and flame. By day, along the astonished lands, . The cloudy pillar glided slow ; By night, Arabia's crimsoned sands Returned the fiery column's glow.
Side 103 - See through this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick, and bursting into birth. Above, how high progressive life may go ! Around, how wide ! how deep extend below ! Vast chain of being ! which from God begau ; Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach ; from Infinite to thee, From thee to Nothing.
Side 349 - I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute ; From the centre all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute.
Side 329 - I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.
Side 256 - ... neither would he compare the friendship between him and them to a Chain, for the rain might sometimes rust it, or a tree might fall and break it; but he should consider them as the same flesh and blood with the Christians, and the same as if one man's body were to be divided into two parts.