The First Book of History: For Children and YouthJenks, Palmer & Company, 1849 - 240 páginas |
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Página 73 - We may go where we please, and carry with us whom we please, and buy and sell what we please : if your allies be your slaves, use them as such, command them to receive no other but your people.
Página 144 - We complained, and they called us young rebels, and told us to help ourselves if we could. We told the captain of this, and he laughed at us. Yesterday our works were destroyed the third time, and we will bear it no longer.
Página 73 - I do not sleep, I have my eyes open, and the sun, which enlightens me, discovers to me a great captain at the head of a company of soldiers, who speaks as if he were dreaming.
Página 73 - Cadarackui, in the presence of your predecessor, in the middle of the fort, they planted the tree of peace in the same place; to be there carefully preserved: that, in the place of a retreat for soldiers, that fort might be a rendezvous for merchants: that, in place of arms and ammunition of war, beavers and merchandise should only enter there.
Página 73 - Yonnondio. You must have believed, when you left Quebec, that the sun had burnt up all the forests, which render our country inaccessible to the French, or that the lakes had so far...
Página 141 - Town born, turn out ! Down with the bloody backs !" at the same time tearing up the market-stalls. The fearful cry of " Fire, fire !" was echoed through the town...
Página 83 - He walked with them, sat with them on the ground, and ate with them of their roasted acorns and hominy. At this they expressed their great delight and soon began to show how they could hop and jump; at which exhibition, William Penn, to cap the climax, sprang up and beat them all.
Página 91 - Lord, he has conferred upon my beloved country, in her emancipation, and upon myself, in permitting me, under circumstances of mercy, to live to the age of...
Página 144 - He asked why so many children had called upon him. " We come, sir," said the tallest boy, " to demand satisfaction." " What !" said the General, " have your fathers been teaching you rebellion, and sent you to exhibit it here ?"
Página 5 - ... the first place, it should be useful ; and in the second place, to make it useful, it must be entertaining. To accomplish these ends, the book is provided with maps, and before the pupil enters upon the history of any state or country, he is to learn from them its shape, boundaries, rivers, shores, &c. He is then briefly made acquainted with its present state, its towns and cities, and the occupations of its inhabitants. These geographical details are conveyed to the pupil, by narrating supposed...