Building the Nation: Events in the History of the United States from the Revolution to the Beginning of the War Between the States, Volume 3Harper, 1882 - 485 pages |
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... stood in the old hall of the State - house at Annapolis , in the presence of the Congress which had called him from Iris quiet home eight years before to take command of the armies of the United States . Now he was to resign it . " I ...
... stood in the old hall of the State - house at Annapolis , in the presence of the Congress which had called him from Iris quiet home eight years before to take command of the armies of the United States . Now he was to resign it . " I ...
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... stood a boy with a silver goblet to represent the old god Bac- chus . This was the first division of the procession . The coopers headed the second division - thirteen boys in advance , wearing white frocks and trousers , with green ...
... stood a boy with a silver goblet to represent the old god Bac- chus . This was the first division of the procession . The coopers headed the second division - thirteen boys in advance , wearing white frocks and trousers , with green ...
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... stood on the bank of the river opposite the present city of Fort Wayne , Indiana . Major Hall , with some of the troops , was sent across the river to get in rear of the Indians , while General Harmar and Major Wyllys , with the ...
... stood on the bank of the river opposite the present city of Fort Wayne , Indiana . Major Hall , with some of the troops , was sent across the river to get in rear of the Indians , while General Harmar and Major Wyllys , with the ...
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... stood upon a dais , and the guests bowed and courtesied when presented . The etiquette was distasteful to the President and Mrs. Washington . " I think that I am a state prisoner , " he wrote to a friend . He submitted to it because the ...
... stood upon a dais , and the guests bowed and courtesied when presented . The etiquette was distasteful to the President and Mrs. Washington . " I think that I am a state prisoner , " he wrote to a friend . He submitted to it because the ...
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... stood aghast before the loss of faith and hope in God and immortality exhibited by the French people . On the other hand , Thomas Jefferson and Samuel Adams , through their intense love for liberty and their hatred of kings , thought of ...
... stood aghast before the loss of faith and hope in God and immortality exhibited by the French people . On the other hand , Thomas Jefferson and Samuel Adams , through their intense love for liberty and their hatred of kings , thought of ...
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Page 249 - When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood! Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the Republic, now known and honored throughout the earth, still full high advanced, its arms and trophies streaming in their original...
Page 142 - WHEN Britain first, at Heaven's command, Arose from out the azure main, This was the charter of the land, And guardian angels sung the strain: Rule, Britannia, rule the waves, Britons never will be slaves.
Page 219 - Oh, say, can you see, by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming. Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming? And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Page 115 - Let independence be our boast, Ever mindful what it cost; Ever grateful for the prize, Let its altar reach the skies. Firm, united, let us be, Rallying round our Liberty; As a band of brothers joined, Peace and safety we shall find.
Page 249 - What is all this worth?" nor those other words of delusion and folly, "Liberty first and Union afterwards," but everywhere, spread all over in characters of living light, blazing on all its ample folds, as they float over the sea and over the land, and in every wind under the whole heaven, that other sentiment, dear to every true American heart, — Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable.
Page 231 - Down the dark future, through long generations, The echoing sounds grow fainter, and then cease ; And like a bell, with solemn, sweet vibrations, I hear once more the voice of Christ say " Peace !" Peace ! and no longer from its brazen portals The blast of War's great organ shakes the skies ! But beautiful as songs of the immortals, The holy melodies of love arise.
Page 55 - YE sons of freedom, wake to glory! Hark! hark! what myriads bid you rise! Your children, wives, and grandsires hoary, Behold their tears, and hear their cries! Shall hateful tyrants, mischief breeding, With hireling hosts, a ruffian band, Affright and desolate the land, While peace and liberty lie bleeding? To arms! to arms! ye brave! Th" avenging sword unsheath ; March on!
Page 84 - The house-dog on his paws outspread Laid to the fire his drowsy head, The cat's dark silhouette on the wall A couchant tiger's seemed to fall; And, for the winter fireside meet, Between the andirons...
Page 467 - BLOW ye the trumpet, — blow ! — The gladly solemn sound ; — ' Let all the nations know, To earth's remotest bound, — The year of jubilee is come ; Return, ye ransomed sinners ! home.