The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 51

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National Geographic Society, 1927 - Geography
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Page 352 - March ye 13th 1775 by the hands of Cruel Ministerial tools of Georg ye 3d in the Corthouse at alla Clock at Night in the 22d year of his age. Here William French his Body lies For Murder his blood for Vengeance cries King Georg the third his Tory crew tha with a bawl his head Shot threw For Liberty and his Country's Good he Lost his Life his Dearest blood.
Page 480 - Man is the most extravagant accelerator of waste the world has ever endured. His withering blight has fallen upon every living thing within his reach, himself not Western Waste.
Page 145 - Declared and sett forth) that noe person or persons whatsoever within this Province, or the Islands, Ports, Harbors, Creekes, or havens thereunto belonging professing to believe in Jesus Christ, shall from henceforth bee any waies troubled, Molested or discountenanced for or in respect of his or her religion nor in the free exercise thereof within this Province or the Islands thereunto belonging nor any way compelled to the beleife or exercise of any other Religion against his or her consent...
Page 265 - With the colour of the jockeys, the prize and horses' ages. It's there you'd see the jockeys and they mounted on most stately, The pink and blue, the red and green, the Emblem of our nation. When the bell was rung for starting, the horses seemed impatient, Though they never stood on ground, their speed was so amazing. There was half a million people there of all denominations, The Catholic, the Protestant, the Jew and PresThere was yet no animosity, no matter what persuasion, But failte and hospitality,...
Page 173 - We are convinced, policy and justice require, that a country unsettled at the commencement of this war, claimed by the British crown, and ceded to it by the treaty of Paris, if wrested from the common enemy by the blood and treasure of the thirteen states, should be considered as a common property, subject to be parcelled out by Congress into free, convenient and independent governments, in such manner and at such times as the wisdom of that assembly shall hereafter direct.
Page 265 - Tis my grief that Patrick Loughlin is not Earl of Irrul still, And that Brian Duff no longer rules as Lord upon the hill: And that Colonel Hugh MacGrady should be lying dead and low, And I sailing, sailing swiftly from the county of Mayo.
Page 93 - ... the creation. No country upon earth can appear with a more ruged and barren aspect than this doth from the sea for as far inland as the eye can reach nothing is to be seen but the sumits of these Rocky mountains which seem to lay so near one another as not to admit any Vallies between them.
Page 145 - Catholics took quiet possession of the little place ; and religious liberty obtained a home — its only home in the wide world — at the humble village which bore the name of St. Mary's.
Page 305 - OVER here in England I'm helpin' wi' the hay, An' I wisht I was in Ireland the livelong day; Weary on the English hay, an' sorra take the wheat! Och! Corrymeela an' the blue sky over it. There's a deep, dumb river flowin" by beyont the heavy trees, This livin' air is moithered wi' the hummin" o' the bees; I wisht I'd hear the Claddagh burn go runnin' through the heat Past Corrymeela, wi
Page 453 - Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing. Then Beauty is its own excuse for being: Why thou wert there, O rival of the rose!

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