Adventures and Achievements of Americans: A Series of Narratives Illustrating Their Heroism, Self-reliance, Genius and EnterpriseGeo. F. Tuttle, 1861 - 732 páginas |
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... miles , and made arrangements there with Captain Pond to have him carried in his sloop across the Sound to the Long Island shore , some twenty miles distant . He assumed the disguise of a school - teacher , wearing on the occasion a ...
... miles , and made arrangements there with Captain Pond to have him carried in his sloop across the Sound to the Long Island shore , some twenty miles distant . He assumed the disguise of a school - teacher , wearing on the occasion a ...
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... miles from Pottawoone , and ten miles from Poppasquash , and about four miles west of Connonicut , and not far from the spot where " the famous battle with the warlike Pequots was fought . OF AMERICANS . 37.
... miles from Pottawoone , and ten miles from Poppasquash , and about four miles west of Connonicut , and not far from the spot where " the famous battle with the warlike Pequots was fought . OF AMERICANS . 37.
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... miles to Colonel Cobourn's ship - yard , there obtained batteaux , and proceeded to Fort Western . Here it was concluded to dis- patch an officer and seven men in advance , for the purposes of ascertaining and marking the paths , which ...
... miles to Colonel Cobourn's ship - yard , there obtained batteaux , and proceeded to Fort Western . Here it was concluded to dis- patch an officer and seven men in advance , for the purposes of ascertaining and marking the paths , which ...
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... miles , counting the rising and descent of the hill as two . This was the acme of our desires . To discover and know the course of this river , was the extent of our orders : beyond it , we had nothing to do . Our chief , wishing to do ...
... miles , counting the rising and descent of the hill as two . This was the acme of our desires . To discover and know the course of this river , was the extent of our orders : beyond it , we had nothing to do . Our chief , wishing to do ...
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... miles . At night - fall we halted , weary and without tasting food since morning . Boyd and Cunningham , who were right - hand - men on most occasions , soon kindled a fire against a fallen tree . The cooks , according to routine ...
... miles . At night - fall we halted , weary and without tasting food since morning . Boyd and Cunningham , who were right - hand - men on most occasions , soon kindled a fire against a fallen tree . The cooks , according to routine ...
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Adventures and Achievements of Americans: A Series of Narratives ... Henry Howe Visualização completa - 1858 |
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American appeared arms army Arnold arrived Ashmun became Benjamin West boat Bollman bread British brought canoe Captain cause character clothes Colonel colony command companions death dollars early enemy England escape Essex eyes F. O. C. Darley father Fayette feet fire Fort Griswold fortune friends Fulton gave genius gentlemen George Steers guard guns hands heard heart honor hope horse Huger hundred invention inventor island JOHN LEDYARD kind La Fayette labor land Ledyard machine manner miles mind morning natives nature never night obtained officers Olmutz painting party passed patent person prisoners Quebec received remained river sail Samuel F. B. Morse says scurvy seemed ship shore Siberia snow soon spirit sufferings telegraph thought thousand tion told took town troops vessel walls West whole wounded writs of assistance Yakutsk yards York young
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Página 606 - Yet a few days, and thee The all-beholding sun shall see no more In all his course; nor yet in the cold ground, Where thy pale form was laid, with many tears, Nor in the embrace of ocean, shall exist Thy image. Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim Thy growth, to be resolved to earth again...
Página 606 - To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language ; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness ere he is aware.
Página 619 - Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter, In there stepped a stately Raven of the saintly days of yore. Not the least obeisance made he ; not a...
Página 605 - The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket, The moss-covered bucket which hung in the well. That moss-covered vessel I hailed as a treasure, For often at noon, when returned from the field, I found it the source of an exquisite pleasure, The purest and sweetest that nature can yield.
Página 136 - And what have we to oppose to them ? Shall we try argument ? Sir, we have been trying that for the last ten years. Have we anything new to offer upon the subject? Nothing. We have held the subject up in every light of which it is capable; but it has been all in vain.
Página 610 - And now, when comes the calm mild day, as still such days will come, To call the squirrel and the bee from out their winter home; When the sound of dropping nuts is heard, though all the trees are still, And twinkle in the smoky light the waters of the rill, The south wind searches for the flowers whose fragrance late he bore, And sighs to find them in the wood and by the stream no more.
Página 598 - IT WAS many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea, That a maiden there lived whom you may know By the name of ANNABEL LEE; And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me.
Página 619 - December, And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. Eagerly I wished the morrow;— vainly I had sought to borrow From my books surcease of sorrow— sorrow for the lost Lenore, For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore: Nameless here for evermore.
Página 619 - art sure no craven, Ghastly, grim, and ancient Raven, wandering from the nightly shore! Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!
Página 612 - Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave: And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.