The Struggle for Sea Power, Book IV of the Story of the WorldCosimo, Inc., 1 янв. 2013 г. - Всего страниц: 248 "Covers the history of the world from the American Revolution to Waterloo--from 1745-1815--and includes tales of: the black hole of Calcutta; George Washington, solider and patriot; how Pitt saved England; The Declaration of Independence and much more."--Cover back. |
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... India reads , even to - day , like some fairy legend of the Old World . It is the story of how one small island ... India , not till the BK . IV . A 2 ENGLAND IN INDIA . [ 18TH CENT . Spaniards THE STORY OF THE GREAT MOGUL.
... India reads , even to - day , like some fairy legend of the Old World . It is the story of how one small island ... India , not till the BK . IV . A 2 ENGLAND IN INDIA . [ 18TH CENT . Spaniards THE STORY OF THE GREAT MOGUL.
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... India or Hindostan the land of the Hindoos . It is a country cut off from Asia by a lofty range of mountains known as the Hima - laya , or snow abode . Here are some of the highest peaks in the world , never scaled by man . Here , too ...
... India or Hindostan the land of the Hindoos . It is a country cut off from Asia by a lofty range of mountains known as the Hima - laya , or snow abode . Here are some of the highest peaks in the world , never scaled by man . Here , too ...
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... India to - day . In the sixteenth century a race of Mongols or Moguls swept into India from Central Asia and founded an empire in the north . Marco Polo 1 had heard a great deal about these Mongols when he was at the court of the Great ...
... India to - day . In the sixteenth century a race of Mongols or Moguls swept into India from Central Asia and founded an empire in the north . Marco Polo 1 had heard a great deal about these Mongols when he was at the court of the Great ...
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... India . The empire was soon after broken up , and the way left clear for England to found her great Eastern Empire beyond the seas . 1747. ] EUROPEANS IN INDIA . 7 2. ROBERT CLIVE HOW PITT SAVED ENGLAND.
... India . The empire was soon after broken up , and the way left clear for England to found her great Eastern Empire beyond the seas . 1747. ] EUROPEANS IN INDIA . 7 2. ROBERT CLIVE HOW PITT SAVED ENGLAND.
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... India . The great Mogul Empire was broken up ; enemies in- vaded the land from north and south . They preyed on the defenceless country , they marched through the gates of Delhi and bore away in triumph the Peacock Throne and all its ...
... India . The great Mogul Empire was broken up ; enemies in- vaded the land from north and south . They preyed on the defenceless country , they marched through the gates of Delhi and bore away in triumph the Peacock Throne and all its ...
Содержание
JAMES BRUCE AND THE NILE | 55 |
MARIE ANTOINETTE | 65 |
THE FLIGHT TO VARENNES | 75 |
A REIGN OF TERROR | 81 |
HORATIO NELSON | 90 |
THE TRAVELS OF BARON HUMBOLDT | 101 |
THE BEGINNING OF THE STRUGGLE | 107 |
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Стр. 170 - I hope the people of England will be satisfied!" "I hope my country will do me justice!
Стр. 170 - We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow ! Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him, — But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him.
Стр. 130 - May the great God whom I worship, grant to my country, and for the benefit of Europe in general, a great and glorious victory, and may no misconduct in any one tarnish it, and may humanity after victory be the predominant feature in the British fleet!
Стр. 142 - Where he greatly stood at bay, Whence he issued forth anew, And ever great and greater grew, Beating from the wasted vines Back to France...
Стр. 166 - Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory; We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory.
Стр. 25 - Resolved, That a committee, in conjunction with one from the Senate, be appointed to consider on the most suitable manner of paying honor to the memory of the man, first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his fellow-citizens.
Стр. 23 - Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.
Стр. 170 - By the struggling moonbeam's misty light And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud we wound him; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest With his martial cloak around him. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow, But we steadfastly gazed on the face of the dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow.
Стр. 139 - Burke, moved even to tears, exclaimed, "It is not a chip of the old block; it is the old block itself.