Illustrated School History of the World: From the Earliest Ages to the Present Time : Accompanied with Numerous Maps and Engravings

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American Book Company, 1889 - 492
 

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Strona 304 - I know that we shall starve if not soon relieved; but starvation is preferable to the dishonored death which is the only alternative. Your menaces move me not; my life is at your disposal; here is my sword, plunge it into my breast, and divide my flesh among you. Take my body to appease your hunger, but expect no surrender so long as I remain alive.
Strona 18 - And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the Lord went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
Strona 395 - The whole legislative power is vested by the constitution in a Congress, consisting of a Senate and House of Representatives. The Senate, or Upper House, consists of two members from each State, chosen by the State legislatures for six years.
Strona 293 - Be of good comfort, for we shall this day light such a candle in England as, I trust, by God's grace, shall never be put out.
Strona 369 - Lost or strayed out of this house, a man who has left a wife and six children on the parish; whoever will give any tidings of him to the churchwardens of St. James's Parish, so as he may be got again, shall receive four shillings and sixpence reward. NB — This reward will not be increased, nobody judging him to deserve a Crown.
Strona 245 - fair son, what right have you to the crown, when you " know your father had none ?" " My liege," answered the young Henry, " with the sword you won it, and " with the sword I will keep it.
Strona 334 - No resistance was offered, and the name of the town was changed to New York, in honor of the Duke of York and Albany, afterwards James II., to whom Charles II.
Strona 209 - ... English subjects ; among whom, however, he did not spend more than four months of his short reign of ten years. The remainder of it was passed in captivity, in France, and in the East, where for near a century his name was one of terror. Mothers with it frightened their crying infants into silence ; and if a horse suddenly started from the way his rider would exclaim, " Dost thou think King Richard is in that bush ?" But his dazzling qualities were sorely blotted by faults, and even by crimes.

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