The Works of Theodore Roosevelt: The winning of the WestCollier, 1889 |
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... nations strove to share in the work . Most of them had to plant their colonies in lands across the sea ; Russia alone was by her geographical position enabled to extend her fron- tiers by land Spread of English - Speaking Peoples -21.
... nations strove to share in the work . Most of them had to plant their colonies in lands across the sea ; Russia alone was by her geographical position enabled to extend her fron- tiers by land Spread of English - Speaking Peoples -21.
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... colonies under their rule , the Indians had become what they have remained ever since , the most formidable savage foes ever en- countered by colonists of European stock . Rela- tively to their numbers , they have shown themselves far ...
... colonies under their rule , the Indians had become what they have remained ever since , the most formidable savage foes ever en- countered by colonists of European stock . Rela- tively to their numbers , they have shown themselves far ...
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... colonies , taken as a whole , it is not probable that much over half of the blood was English ; Dutch , French , Ger- man , and Gaelic communities abounded . But all were being rapidly fused into one people . As the Celt of Cornwall and ...
... colonies , taken as a whole , it is not probable that much over half of the blood was English ; Dutch , French , Ger- man , and Gaelic communities abounded . But all were being rapidly fused into one people . As the Celt of Cornwall and ...
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... colonies , at the outset of their struggle for independence , saw themselves sur- rounded , north , south , and west , by lands where the rulers and the ruled were of different races , but where rulers and ruled alike were hostile to ...
... colonies , at the outset of their struggle for independence , saw themselves sur- rounded , north , south , and west , by lands where the rulers and the ruled were of different races , but where rulers and ruled alike were hostile to ...
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... colonies was mould- ering in slow decay . Its capital city was quaint St. Augustine , the old walled town that was founded by the Spaniards long years before the keel of the Half - Moon furrowed the broad Hudson , or the ships of the ...
... colonies was mould- ering in slow decay . Its capital city was quaint St. Augustine , the old walled town that was founded by the Spaniards long years before the keel of the Half - Moon furrowed the broad Hudson , or the ships of the ...
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