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M. B. Synge. While France and Germany were fighting out their quarrels in Europe , England was playing a vacillating part in South Africa . The country occupied by the Boers , between the Orange river and the Vaal , was without adequate ...
M. B. Synge. While France and Germany were fighting out their quarrels in Europe , England was playing a vacillating part in South Africa . The country occupied by the Boers , between the Orange river and the Vaal , was without adequate ...
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M. B. Synge. nee and Germany were fighting out their quarrels in Europe, England was playing a vacillating part in Sous l\v country c between the Orange river and the Vaai, was without adequate centra! government; the emigrant farmers ...
M. B. Synge. nee and Germany were fighting out their quarrels in Europe, England was playing a vacillating part in Sous l\v country c between the Orange river and the Vaai, was without adequate centra! government; the emigrant farmers ...
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... Europe was at peace . But , like the waves after a great storm , the influences that had worked for freedom , continued to work . For two centuries , this sixth part of the world , had been governed by Spaniards and Portuguese : for two ...
... Europe was at peace . But , like the waves after a great storm , the influences that had worked for freedom , continued to work . For two centuries , this sixth part of the world , had been governed by Spaniards and Portuguese : for two ...
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... European emi- grants . San Martin , who had served in Spanish armies for twenty years , soon fired the enthusiasm of the people . An army was raised , which soon became famous under his leadership . It was not long before the arms of ...
... European emi- grants . San Martin , who had served in Spanish armies for twenty years , soon fired the enthusiasm of the people . An army was raised , which soon became famous under his leadership . It was not long before the arms of ...
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... Europe , now lay paralysed under its Mohammedan oppressors . When the Greek revolution began , in 1821 , it was no sudden insurrection to which the people were stung . As a tree , which winter has stripped of its leaves , puts forth ...
... Europe , now lay paralysed under its Mohammedan oppressors . When the Greek revolution began , in 1821 , it was no sudden insurrection to which the people were stung . As a tree , which winter has stripped of its leaves , puts forth ...
Contenido
1 | |
5 | |
11 | |
16 | |
21 | |
THE STORY OF NATAL | 27 |
THE STORY OF CANADA | 33 |
THE FURTRADERS LAND | 38 |
THE EMPIRE OF INDIA | 170 |
THE INDIAN MUTINY 16 THE AWAKENING OF ITALY 17 KING OF UNITED ITALY 1 | 171 |
GORDONTHE HERO OF KHARTUM | 176 |
5 | 183 |
THE STORY OF BRITISH WEST AFRICA | 189 |
THE STORY OF UGANDA | 195 |
THE FOUNDING OF RHODESIA | 202 |
BRITISH SOUTH AFRICA | 207 |
THE WINNING OF THE WEST | 42 |
A GREAT ARCTIC EXPEDITION | 47 |
DISCOVERIES IN AUSTRALIA | 53 |
THE LAST KING OF FRANCE | 60 |
LOUIS KOSSUTH AND HUNGARY | 66 |
THE CRIMEAN | 72 |
CONTENTS 24 LIVINGSTONES DISCOVERIES IN CENTRAL AFRICA | 131 |
CHINAS LONG SLEEP | 137 |
THE LAND OF THE RISING SUN | 144 |
JAPANBRITAINS ALLY | 150 |
RUSSIA + | 154 |
THE ANNEXATION OF BURMA | 159 |
THE STORY OF AFGHANISTAN | 166 |
THE DOMINION OF CANADA | 214 |
AUSTRALIA THE NEW NATION | 219 |
11 | 221 |
21 | 222 |
FREEDOM FOR CUBA | 226 |
REIGN OF QUEEN VICTORIA | 231 |
WELDING THE EMPIRE | 236 |
CITIZENSHIP | 241 |
TEACHERS APPENDIX | 246 |
INDEX | 249 |
72 | 250 |
THE MEXICAN REVOLUTION 103 | 251 |
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Página 76 - Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die ; Into the valley of death Rode the six hundred.
Página 79 - On England's annals, through the long Hereafter of her speech and song, That light its rays shall cast From portals of the past. A Lady with a Lamp shall stand In the great history of the land, A noble type of good, Heroic womanhood.
Página 43 - TO THE WEST ! TO THE WEST ! TO the West.! to the West ! to the land of the free, Where mighty Missouri rolls down to the sea, Where a man is a man, if he's willing to toil, And the humblest may gather the fruits of the soil.
Página 104 - New occasions teach new duties ; Time makes ancient good uncouth ; They must upward still, and onward, who would keep abreast of Truth ; Lo, before us gleam her camp-fires ! we ourselves must Pilgrims be, Launch our Mayflower, and steer boldly through the desperate winter sea, Nor attempt the Future's portal with the Past's blood-rusted key.
Página 18 - It did ; and to prove that she did not keep them waiting, in a few minutes she came into the room in a loose white nightgown and shawl, her nightcap thrown off, and her hair falling upon her shoulders, her feet in slippers, tears in her eyes, but perfectly collected and dignified.
Página 22 - Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range, Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.
Página 101 - we will speak for freedom and against slavery, as long as the Constitution of our country guarantees free speech, until everywhere on this wide land the sun shall shine, and the rain shall fall, and the wind shall blow upon no man who goes forth to unrequited toil.
Página 55 - As we neared the sand-bank, I stood up and made signs to the natives to desist; but without success. I took up my gun, therefore, and cocking it, had already brought it down to a level. A few seconds more would have closed the life of the nearest of the savages.
Página 97 - Thou, too, sail on, O ship of State ! Sail on, O Union, strong and great ! Humanity, with all its fears, With all its hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate ! We know what Master laid thy keel.