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A. B. M. St A. T. Quiller Alfred American history Appleton Arnold von Winkelried Benziger Beowulf Bible for young Bloch Book of discovery boy's C. V. D. Saint call of honour Captain Careers of danger Century Charlemagne Charles Christopher Columbus cott David Livingstone Doubleday Dutton Ebbutt Famous cavalry leaders Famous Indian chiefs Famous voyages fighters from Drake Francis George Golden numbers Havelok the Dane Henry Henry of Portugal Hereward the Wake Hero-myths and legends Heroes and heroines Heroes of progress heroines of English Holy Scriptures Houghton Isaac Leeser Jameson Johnston King Arthur knight legendary art Lippin Lippincott Lodge Longmans lord Macmillan Madeleine de Verchères millan Morris N. A. Smith Napoleon Nelson old story book Parkman progress in America Putnam Robert Roll call Romance Sacred and legendary Scribner Sea fighters Sitting Bull Stokes Synge Tappan Tennyson thee THEODORE ROOSEVELT translated by Isaac twenty-four books W. E. Lyra heroica World's discoverers
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Page 17 - Then out spake brave Horatius, The Captain of the gate : 'To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late; And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers And the temples of his Gods...
Page 36 - I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country...
Page 10 - If I have found favour in thy sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request: For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish.
Page 32 - When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then, and not till then, let my epitaph be written.
Page 11 - It hath fully been shewed me, all that thou hast done unto thy mother in law since the death of thine husband : and how thou hast left thy father and thy mother, and the land of thy nativity, and art come unto a people which thou knewest not heretofore.
Page 33 - Not as the conqueror comes, They, the true-hearted, came ; Not with the roll of the stirring drums, And the trumpet that sings of fame; Not as the flying come, In silence and in fear; They shook the depths of the desert gloom With their hymns of lofty cheer.
Page 34 - Go to the damsel Priscilla, the loveliest maiden of Plymouth, Say that a blunt old Captain, a man not of words but of actions, Offers his hand and his heart, the hand and heart of a soldier.
Page 53 - We are weak, writing is difficult, but for my own sake I do not regret this journey, which has shown that Englishmen can endure hardships, help one another, and meet death with as great a fortitude as ever in the past. We took risks, we knew we took them; things have come out against us, and therefore we have no cause for complaint, but bow to the will of Providence, determined still to do our best to the last.
Page 10 - And it came to pass, as they still went on and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.
Page 27 - Her moors red-brown wi' heather bells, Her banks an' braes, her dens an' dells, Where glorious Wallace Aft bure the gree, as story tells, Frae Southron billies. At Wallace' name, what Scottish blood But boils up in a spring-tide flood ! Oft have our fearless fathers strode By Wallace' side, Still pressing onward, red-wat-shod, Or glorious died.