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Página 35 - by his friend Garrick, the actor : " Farewell, great painter of mankind, Who reached the noblest point of art, Whose pictured morals charm the mind, And through the eye correct the heart. If genius fire thee, drop a tear; If neither move thee, turn away, For Hogarth's honored dust lies here." 16. SPAIN IN AMERICA. Before the year 1600 AD England had tried and
Página 90 - 50. SCOTTISH CLANS. The great tribal wars between Picts (Gaels) and Scots, Highlanders and Saxon Lowlanders, are matters of history, as well as of song and story. Sir Walter Scott, while young in public life, wrote : " Yet live there still who can remember well, How, when a mountain chief his bugle blew, Both field and forest, dingle, cliff and dell, And
Página iii - NIECE, SARAH H. CARPENTER, IN APPRECIATION OF HER NEVER FAILING LOVE AND EVER READY HELP. "TAKE IT, LOVE, THE BOOK AND ME TOGETHER ; WHERE THE HEART LIES, LET THE BRAIN LIE ALSO.
Página 161 - My name, my country, what are they to thee ? What, whether proud or bare my pedigree ? Perhaps I far surpassed all other men; Perhaps I fell below them all. What then ? Sufficient, stranger, that thou seest a tomb. Thou knowest its use. It hides—no matter whom. — Translation of WILLIAM COWPER.
Página 352 - The Turks have a drink called coffee (for they use no wine), so named of a berry as black as soot and as bitter, which they sip up as warm as they can suffer, because they find by experience that that kind of drink
Página 250 - enacted. That from and after the fourth of July next, the flag of the United States shall be thirteen horizontal stripes, alternate red and white; that the Union be twenty stars, white, in a blue field.
Página 275 - Its purport is, in brief, as follows : When the Maine arrived at Havana she was conducted by the regular Government pilot to buoy No. 4, to which she was moored in from five and a half to six fathoms of water. The state of discipline on board, and the condition of her magazines, boilers, coal-bunkers and
Página 59 - As long as the Monongahela and Allegheny shall flow to form the Ohio, as long as the English tongue shall be the language of freedom in the boundless valley which their waters traverse, his name shall stand inscribed upon ' the gateway of the West.
Página 173 - We don't want to fight, but by jingo, if we do, We've got the men, we've got the ships, we've got the money, too.
Página 274 - At forty minutes past nine in the evening of the 15th of February the Maine was destroyed by an explosion by which the entire forward part of the ship was utterly wrecked. In this catastrophe two officers and two hundred and sixty-four of her crew perished.