The Struggle for Sea Power, Book IV of the Story of the WorldCosimo, Inc., 2013年1月1日 - 248 頁 "Covers the history of the world from the American Revolution to Waterloo--from 1745-1815--and includes tales of: the black hole of Calcutta; George Washington, solider and patriot; how Pitt saved England; The Declaration of Independence and much more."--Cover back. |
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第 1 到 5 筆結果,共 36 筆
第 3 頁
... reached the height of its glory . He had usurped the throne , put his father into prison , and murdered his three brothers . His crown was uneasy , but secure . At Delhi he held his magnificent court . Here was the palace of the Great ...
... reached the height of its glory . He had usurped the throne , put his father into prison , and murdered his three brothers . His crown was uneasy , but secure . At Delhi he held his magnificent court . Here was the palace of the Great ...
第 11 頁
... reached the town before them . A panic seized the native garrison : they abandoned the fort . Not a shot was fired , and Clive with his 500 men entered the city in triumph . The young boy - captain had already won a deathless renown . 3 ...
... reached the town before them . A panic seized the native garrison : they abandoned the fort . Not a shot was fired , and Clive with his 500 men entered the city in triumph . The young boy - captain had already won a deathless renown . 3 ...
第 14 頁
... , hoping for help to be sent , but he reached the banks of the Hoogly with a force wholly in- adequate for the work before him . He was in a painfully anxious dilemma . Before him lay a wide 1757. ] BATTLE OF PLASSEY . 15 river , across.
... , hoping for help to be sent , but he reached the banks of the Hoogly with a force wholly in- adequate for the work before him . He was in a painfully anxious dilemma . Before him lay a wide 1757. ] BATTLE OF PLASSEY . 15 river , across.
第 17 頁
... reached to the French settlement of New Orleans , on the Gulf of Mexico . At distant in- tervals , faint wreaths of smoke marked an Indian village otherwise all was solitude . The country was unclaimed , for the most part , by either ...
... reached to the French settlement of New Orleans , on the Gulf of Mexico . At distant in- tervals , faint wreaths of smoke marked an Indian village otherwise all was solitude . The country was unclaimed , for the most part , by either ...
第 19 頁
... reached the fort . He delivered his message , and started home with the first formal note of defiance from France to England . After a three months ' absence and numerous hairbreadth escapes , young Washington rode into Virginia with ...
... reached the fort . He delivered his message , and started home with the first formal note of defiance from France to England . After a three months ' absence and numerous hairbreadth escapes , young Washington rode into Virginia with ...
內容
JAMES BRUCE AND THE NILE | 55 |
MARIE ANTOINETTE | 65 |
THE FLIGHT TO VARENNES | 75 |
A REIGN OF TERROR | 81 |
HORATIO NELSON | 90 |
THE TRAVELS OF BARON HUMBOLDT | 101 |
THE BEGINNING OF THE STRUGGLE | 107 |
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第 170 頁 - I hope the people of England will be satisfied!" "I hope my country will do me justice!
第 170 頁 - We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow ! Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him, — But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him.
第 130 頁 - May the great God whom I worship, grant to my country, and for the benefit of Europe in general, a great and glorious victory, and may no misconduct in any one tarnish it, and may humanity after victory be the predominant feature in the British fleet!
第 142 頁 - Where he greatly stood at bay, Whence he issued forth anew, And ever great and greater grew, Beating from the wasted vines Back to France...
第 166 頁 - Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory; We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory.
第 25 頁 - Resolved, That a committee, in conjunction with one from the Senate, be appointed to consider on the most suitable manner of paying honor to the memory of the man, first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his fellow-citizens.
第 23 頁 - Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.
第 170 頁 - By the struggling moonbeam's misty light And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud we wound him; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest With his martial cloak around him. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow, But we steadfastly gazed on the face of the dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow.
第 139 頁 - Burke, moved even to tears, exclaimed, "It is not a chip of the old block; it is the old block itself.