Brief Biographies from American History, for the Fifth and Sixth Grades: Required by the Syllabus for Elementary Schools of New York State Education DepartmentC.E. Merrill Company, 1907 - 299 頁 |
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第 1 到 5 筆結果,共 34 筆
第 8 頁
... Spain , Italy , even of Greece and Africa . What was their object ? Plunder and always plunder . fierce , merciless sea - soldiers descended on a land sud- denly , like a thunder - cloud from the blue summer sky . They laid it waste ...
... Spain , Italy , even of Greece and Africa . What was their object ? Plunder and always plunder . fierce , merciless sea - soldiers descended on a land sud- denly , like a thunder - cloud from the blue summer sky . They laid it waste ...
第 22 頁
... Spain to China . This was a great mistake . But Columbus was much nearer the truth than most men of the day who thought the world flat with an edge over which there was danger of falling . And , unlike the old geog- raphers , Columbus ...
... Spain to China . This was a great mistake . But Columbus was much nearer the truth than most men of the day who thought the world flat with an edge over which there was danger of falling . And , unlike the old geog- raphers , Columbus ...
第 24 頁
... Spain at an unfavorable time . King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella were engaged in a war against the Moors , which occupied their time and emptied their treasury . However , the matter was laid before a council of scholars who decided ...
... Spain at an unfavorable time . King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella were engaged in a war against the Moors , which occupied their time and emptied their treasury . However , the matter was laid before a council of scholars who decided ...
第 25 頁
... Spain , with three little vessels . The Santa Maria was a decked ship , ninety feet long , car- rying sixty - six men ; the Nina and the Pinta , smaller than the Santa Maria , were boat - like vessels , carrying each about twenty - five ...
... Spain , with three little vessels . The Santa Maria was a decked ship , ninety feet long , car- rying sixty - six men ; the Nina and the Pinta , smaller than the Santa Maria , were boat - like vessels , carrying each about twenty - five ...
第 26 頁
... Spain . Eyeing the strangers were the natives , -naked , with straight , black hair , and swarthy skins daubed with paint . Columbus , who thought he had reached India , called these people Indians , the name they retain to this day ...
... Spain . Eyeing the strangers were the natives , -naked , with straight , black hair , and swarthy skins daubed with paint . Columbus , who thought he had reached India , called these people Indians , the name they retain to this day ...
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第 209 頁 - We have met the enemy and they are ours; two ships, two brigs, one schooner and one sloop.
第 135 頁 - THE BODY of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Printer, (like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out, and stript of its lettering and gilding) lies here food for worms ; yet the work itself shall not be lost, for it will (as he believed) appear once more in a new and more beautiful edition, corrected and amended by THE AUTHOR.
第 150 頁 - Britain. If taxes are laid upon us in any shape without our having a legal representation where they are laid, are we not reduced from the character of free subjects to the miserable state of tributary slaves...
第 188 頁 - That no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested, or burthened in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer on account of his religious opinions or belief...
第 191 頁 - Our first and fundamental maxim should be, never to entangle ourselves in the broils of Europe. Our second, never to suffer Europe to intermeddle with cisAtlantic affairs.
第 273 頁 - My dear General : I do not remember that you and I ever met personally. I write this now as a grateful acknowledgment for the almost inestimable service you have done the country. I wish to say a word further. When you first reached the vicinity of Vicksburg, I thought you should do what you finally did — march the troops across the neck, run the batteries with the transports, and thus go below ; and I never had any faith, except a general hope that you knew better than I...
第 3 頁 - Universal History, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here.
第 141 頁 - The officers and men will remember what their country expects from them, and what a determined body of soldiers, inured to war, is capable of doing against five weak French battalions, mingled with a disorderly peasantry. The soldiers must be attentive and obedient to their officers and resolute in the execution of their duty.
第 267 頁 - With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive to finish the work we are in...
第 188 頁 - ... all men shall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain their opinions in matters of religion, and that the same shall in no wise diminish, enlarge, or affect their civil capacities.