Historical Tales, the Romance of Reality: AmericanJ.B. Lippincott, 1893 - 328 páginas |
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Página 48
... success and striking yet heavier blows upon their dreaded enemy . Even Champlain , who was versed in civilized war- fare , made no attempt to lead them to an invasion of the Iroquois realm . He did not dream of the deadly reprisal which ...
... success and striking yet heavier blows upon their dreaded enemy . Even Champlain , who was versed in civilized war- fare , made no attempt to lead them to an invasion of the Iroquois realm . He did not dream of the deadly reprisal which ...
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... success . The treasures of Peru , loaded on Spanish ships , had not all reached the ports of Spain . Some cargoes of silver had gone to the bottom of the Atlantic . Phips had heard of such a wreck on the Bahamas , had sailed thither ...
... success . The treasures of Peru , loaded on Spanish ships , had not all reached the ports of Spain . Some cargoes of silver had gone to the bottom of the Atlantic . Phips had heard of such a wreck on the Bahamas , had sailed thither ...
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... success were possible . Finally , the Duke of Albemarle and some others agreed to supply funds for the expedition , and Captain Phips in no long time had another ship under his feet , and was once more upon the seas . His ship was now ...
... success were possible . Finally , the Duke of Albemarle and some others agreed to supply funds for the expedition , and Captain Phips in no long time had another ship under his feet , and was once more upon the seas . His ship was now ...
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... success . The romantic incidents of the narrative attracted universal attention . Phips was the hero of the hour . Some of his enemies , it is true , did their utmost to make him a wronged hero . They diligently sought to persuade James ...
... success . The romantic incidents of the narrative attracted universal attention . Phips was the hero of the hour . Some of his enemies , it is true , did their utmost to make him a wronged hero . They diligently sought to persuade James ...
Página 65
... success to merit , not to luck . He was evi- dently a man of the highest capacity , and might , had he chosen , have filled high places and gained great honors in England . But America was his native land , and he was not to be kept ...
... success to merit , not to luck . He was evi- dently a man of the highest capacity , and might , had he chosen , have filled high places and gained great honors in England . But America was his native land , and he was not to be kept ...
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Aaron Burr adventures alarm American appeared armed army battle Blennerhasset boat Boston British bullets Burr camp canoes Captain captured Champe Champlain Chattanooga Colonel Colonel Sheppard command Confederate Cornell craft crew danger daring deck enemy engine England enterprise escape eyes fell filled fire flames flight force forest French frigate fugitives garrison gave governor Green Mountain boys Greenland guns hands haste hope horse hour hundred Indians iron-clad Iroquois island journey ketch knew lake land Leif Lexington men LIBBY PRISON looked Lord Rawdon Marietta Marion Merrimac miles militia minutes Morse night officers onward party passed patriot Pedee River peril Phips prisoners proved pursuers pursuit Putnam quickly reached river road sail savages seemed sent sentinel ship shore shot side Simon Girty speed stood story stream swamp told took track train Tripoli troops vessel Vineland Washington William Phips wire wood
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Página 94 - I have been the more particular in this description of my journey, and shall be so of my first entry into that city, that you may in your mind compare such unlikely beginnings with the figure I have since made there.
Página 232 - Well knows the fair and friendly moon The band that Marion leads,— The glitter of their rifles, The scampering of their steeds.
Página 95 - Thus I went up Market Street as far as Fourth Street, passing by the door of Mr. Read, my future wife's father ; when she, standing at the door, saw me, and thought I made, as I certainly did, a most awkward, ridiculous appearance.
Página 95 - Street wharf, near the boat I came in, to which I went for a draught of the river water; and being filled with one of my rolls, gave the other two to a woman and her child that came down the river in the boat with us, and were waiting to go farther.
Página 88 - Drum, drum, I say,' and turning to his excellency, said, 'If I am interrupted again I will make the sun shine through you in a moment.
Página 231 - Our tent the cypress tree; We know the forest round us, As seamen know the sea. We know its walls of thorny vines, Its glades of reedy grass, Its safe and silent islands Within the dark morass.
Página 94 - I was in my working dress, my best clothes being to come round by sea. I was dirty from my journey; my pockets were stuffed out with shirts and stockings, and I knew no soul nor where to look for lodging.
Página 100 - You, in former days, set a silver basin before us, wherein there was the leg of a beaver, and desired all the nations to come and eat of it; to eat in peace and plenty, and not to be churlish to one another: and that if any such person should be found to be a disturber, I here lay down by the edge of the dish a rod, which you must scourge them...
Página 100 - But the Great Being above allowed it to be a place of residence for us ; so, fathers, I desire you to withdraw, as I have done our brothers the English ; for I will keep you at arm's length.
Página 153 - Two darling sons and a brother have I lost by savage hands, which have also taken from me forty valuable horses, and abundance of cattle. Many dark and sleepless nights have I been a companion for owls, separated from the cheerful society of men, scorched by the summer's sun, and pinched by the winter's cold — an instrument ordained to settle the wilderness.