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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... danger ahead . The French were pushing their dreams of empire too far . The Governor of Virginia exerted himself more vigor- ously . He too would build forts on the Ohio . In the early spring of 1754 , a little band of Virginians was ...
... danger ahead . The French were pushing their dreams of empire too far . The Governor of Virginia exerted himself more vigor- ously . He too would build forts on the Ohio . In the early spring of 1754 , a little band of Virginians was ...
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... dangers lifted him high above all thought of self or party spirit . " " Be one people : forget everything but the public . I set you the example , " he cried with a 1 See Book IV . chapter 2 . 26 PITT'S PATRIOTISM . [ 1758 . glow of ...
... dangers lifted him high above all thought of self or party spirit . " " Be one people : forget everything but the public . I set you the example , " he cried with a 1 See Book IV . chapter 2 . 26 PITT'S PATRIOTISM . [ 1758 . glow of ...
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... danger and her responsibility , and helped her to rise to a greatness far surpassing the dreams of either Elizabeth or Cromwell . 7. THE FALL OF QUEBEC . " They have fallen Each in his field of glory . Wolfe upon the lap Of smiling ...
... danger and her responsibility , and helped her to rise to a greatness far surpassing the dreams of either Elizabeth or Cromwell . 7. THE FALL OF QUEBEC . " They have fallen Each in his field of glory . Wolfe upon the lap Of smiling ...
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... dangerous coast , on which the huge Atlantic waves broke with a roar as of thunder , tossing their white foam high into the air . The wind blew with ever - increasing fury , and the night was black as pitch . Only the genius of a Hawke ...
... dangerous coast , on which the huge Atlantic waves broke with a roar as of thunder , tossing their white foam high into the air . The wind blew with ever - increasing fury , and the night was black as pitch . Only the genius of a Hawke ...
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... danger . The colonists held a great Congress . Each colony was represented , and they resolved to resist the Stamp Act . England was startled by the news : it called Pitt to the front again . He understood the American colonies ; he ...
... danger . The colonists held a great Congress . Each colony was represented , and they resolved to resist the Stamp Act . England was startled by the news : it called Pitt to the front again . He understood the American colonies ; he ...
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.