First Lessons in American History

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B.H. Sanborn and Company, 1922 - United States - 335 pages
 

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Page 261 - My paramount object is to save the Union, and not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slaves, I would do it...
Page 316 - I advise that the Congress declare the recent course of the Imperial German Government to be in fact nothing less than war against the government and people of the United States...
Page 152 - Stand your ground. Don't fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war let it begin here,
Page 261 - A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure half slave and half free. I do not expect the...
Page 198 - A gentleman of thirty-two, who could calculate an eclipse, survey an estate, tie an artery, plan an edifice, try a cause, break a horse, dance a minuet, and play the violin.
Page 271 - Let us cross over the river, and rest under the shade of the trees...
Page 123 - These savages may indeed be a formidable enemy to your raw American militia, but upon the king's regular and disciplined troops, sir, it is impossible they should make any impression.
Page 67 - God's word, and the conscience of his own infirmities; and therefore he desired them that they would not hereafter take it ill if he refused such presents for the time to come." Twas his custom also to send some of his family upon errands unto the houses of the poor, about their meal time, on purpose to spy whether they wanted; and if it were found that they wanted, he would make that the opportunity of sending supplies unto them.

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