The World's Great Events: An Indexed History of the World from Earliest Times to the Present Day, Bind 5Esther Singleton P. F. Collier, 1916 |
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advance allies America arms army attack Austria battle bishops Blenheim Bohemia Boston Bourbon Braddock Britain British called camp Captain capture cavalry Charles Charles XII Colonies command Company Condé court crown Czar death declared defeated Duke Duke of Lorraine Duquesne Earl Earl of Mar Elector Elector of Bavaria Emperor enemy England English fell fight fire force Fort Duquesne France Frederic Frederick French Germany Holland honor horse house of Bourbon hundred Indians infantry Irish James John King King's kingdom land London Lord Louis XIV Maria Theresa Marlborough ment nation officers Parliament passed peace Peter Poland possession Prince Eugene Queen regiments Rhine river royal Russia sailed Saxony sent ship siege Silesia soldiers soon South Sea Spain squadrons success surrender Sweden THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY thousand tion took Tories town treaty troops Turks victory Whigs whole William
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Side 1371 - And for the season it was winter, and they that know the winters of that country know them to be sharp and violent, and subject to cruel and fierce storms, dangerous to travel to known places, much more to search an unknown coast.
Side 1372 - Our fathers were Englishmen which came over this great ocean, and were ready to perish in this wilderness; but they cried unto the Lord, and He heard their voice and looked on their adversity,
Side 1676 - He says that if they are not free in their present state England is not free ; because Manchester, and other considerable places, are not represented. So then, because some towns in England are not represented America is to have no representative at all. They are " our children;" but when children ask for bread we are not to give a stone.
Side 1371 - Pisgah, to view from this wilderness a more goodly country to feed their hopes ; for which way soever they turned their eyes (save upward to the heavens) they could have little solace or content in respect of any outward objects. For summer being done, all things stand upon them with a weather-beaten face; and the whole country, full of woods and thickets, represented a wild and savage hue.
Side 1446 - second, having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of " the kingdom, by breaking the original contract between " king and people — and, by the advice of Jesuits and other " wicked persons, having violated the fundamental laws, " and having withdrawn himself out of this kingdom — has " abdicated the government, and that the throne is thereby
Side 1685 - ... this growth of our national prosperity has happened within the short period of the life of man. It has happened within sixty-eight years. There are those alive whose memory might touch the two extremities. For instance, my Lord Bathurst might remember all the stages of the progress. He was in 1704 of an age at least to be made to comprehend such things. He was then old enough acta parentum jam legere, et quce sit poterit cognoscere virtus.
Side 1643 - I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of all the rest.
Side 1371 - Being thus passed the vast ocean, and a sea of troubles before in their preparation (as may be remembered by that which went before), they had now no friends to welcome them, nor inns to entertain or refresh their weather-beaten bodies, no houses or much less towns to repair to, to seek for succor.
Side 1685 - England, the genius should point out to him a little speck, scarce visible in the mass of the national interest, a small seminal principle, rather than a formed body...
Side 1365 - The next day, the wind being fair, they went aboard, and their friends with them, where truly doleful was the sight of that sad and mournful parting ; to see what sighs and sobs and prayers did sound amongst them ; what tears did gush from every eye, and pithy speeches pierced each heart, that sundry of the Dutch strangers that stood on the quay as spectators could not refrain from tears.