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... arms and ammunition . For four months they had been buffeting the waves of the Atlantic , and for three days previous to the time in question , they had battled with a furious storm in vain attempts to land at Roanoke , where Raleigh ...
... arms and ammunition . For four months they had been buffeting the waves of the Atlantic , and for three days previous to the time in question , they had battled with a furious storm in vain attempts to land at Roanoke , where Raleigh ...
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... arms of two warriors . The fear of punishment could restrain her generous soul no longer , and she sprang to the side of the victim , clasped his head in her arms , and laid her own upon the stone in token of her willingness to be- come ...
... arms of two warriors . The fear of punishment could restrain her generous soul no longer , and she sprang to the side of the victim , clasped his head in her arms , and laid her own upon the stone in token of her willingness to be- come ...
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... arms . Failing in this , he resolved to fall upon them when at supper , and thus destroy them . In this he would have succeeded , had it not been for the friendship of Pocahontas . She , who before in the hour of peril had come like an ...
... arms . Failing in this , he resolved to fall upon them when at supper , and thus destroy them . In this he would have succeeded , had it not been for the friendship of Pocahontas . She , who before in the hour of peril had come like an ...
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... arms of the war of 1755 , and beloved officer , was that he had expired under his numerous wounds ; and it was not until the American army was in full march for Morristown that the chief was undeceived , and learned , to his great ...
... arms of the war of 1755 , and beloved officer , was that he had expired under his numerous wounds ; and it was not until the American army was in full march for Morristown that the chief was undeceived , and learned , to his great ...
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... arms , and harassed by a long night's march . Was it then to be wondered at that they should have given way before the veteran bayonets of their fresh and well - appointed foe ? " The heroic devotion of Washington was not wanting in the ...
... arms , and harassed by a long night's march . Was it then to be wondered at that they should have given way before the veteran bayonets of their fresh and well - appointed foe ? " The heroic devotion of Washington was not wanting in the ...
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Page 480 - The volcanoes are dim, and the stars reel and swim, When the whirlwinds my banner unfurl.
Page 480 - I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams; I bear light shade for the leaves when laid In their noonday dreams. From my wings are shaken the dews that waken The sweet buds every one, When rocked to rest on their mother's breast, As she dances about the sun. I wield the flail of the lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under, And then again I dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder.
Page 435 - And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the LORD : and he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.
Page 47 - He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining, in the meantime, exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Page 47 - He has endeavored to prevent the population of these States: for that purpose obstructing the laws for naturalization of foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage, their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands. He has obstructed the administration of justice by refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers. He has made judges dependent on his will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. He has...
Page 480 - I am the daughter of Earth and Water, And the nursling of the Sky ; I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores ; I change, but I cannot die. For after the rain when with never a stain, The pavilion of heaven is bare. And the winds and sunbeams with their convex gleams, Build up the blue dome of air, I silently laugh at my own cenotaph, And out of the caverns of rain, Like a child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb, I arise and unbuild it again.
Page 58 - ... between people, who, though separated by an ocean, and under different governments, have the same language, a similar religion, and kindred blood.
Page 405 - I take this method to request such of you as are true citizens and willing to enjoy the liberty I bring you, to remain still in your houses: — And those, if any there be, that are friends to the king, will instantly repair to the fort and join the hair-buyer General, and fight like men.
Page 483 - THE sun is bright, — the air is clear, The darting swallows soar and sing, And from the stately elms I hear The bluebird prophesying Spring. So blue yon winding river flows, It seems an outlet from the sky, Where waiting till the west wind blows, The freighted clouds at anchor lie.
Page 306 - Heaven, and glances at that divinely consoling proclamation, " come unto me all ye who are weary and heavy laden, and I will give you rest:" The ruin of the steeple is about thirty feet high, and mantled, to its very summit, with ivy.