The Comic History of the United States: From a Period Prior to the Discovery of America to Times Long Subsequent to the PresentFields, Osgood, 1870 - 549 pages |
Other editions - View all
The Comic History of the United States: From a Period Prior to the Discovery ... John D Sherwood No preview available - 2015 |
Common terms and phrases
American army became bill Boston British Calhoun carried CHAPTER character Charles Charleston church civil Colonies colonists color Columbus Confederate Congress Connecticut Constitution continent cotton course Court crop discovery Dry Tortugas Dutch early England English eyes face Federal France French gathered George George III Georgia Governors growth hand hard head Henry hundred Indian Island James John Smith John Trumbull land live look Lord Lord North ments Mississippi moral Navigation Acts never North party peace Penn Petrus Stuyvesant political Polka Party poor President Queen Anne's war REVOLUTIONARY WHEEL River royal sent settled settlements settlers ships shores side SKALDS soil soon South Carolina thirteen Colonies thousand tion took treaty trees troops turned Union Virginia Washington WHISKEY REBELLION Yankee York young
Popular passages
Page 46 - HERE are old trees, tall oaks and gnarled pines, That stream with gray-green mosses ; here the ground Was never trenched by spade, and flowers spring up Unsown, and die ungathered. It is sweet To linger here, among the flitting birds And leaping squirrels, wandering brooks, and winds That shake the leaves, and scatter, as they pass, A fragrance from the cedars, thickly set With pale blue berries. In these peaceful shades— Peaceful, unpruned, immeasurably old— My thoughts go up the long dim path...
Page 465 - I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah, with one hundred and fifty heavy guns and plenty of ammunition, and also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton.
Page 46 - Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns.
Page 123 - You are our brothers," said the sachems, " and we will live like brothers with you. We will have a broad path for you and us to walk in. If an Englishman falls asleep in this path, the Indian shall pass him by, and say, He is an Englishman ; he is asleep ; let him alone. The path shall be plain ; there shall not be in it a stump to hurt the feet...
Page 319 - Tho' poortith hourly stare him ; A man may tak a neebor's part, Yet hae nae cash to spare him. Aye free, aff han' your story tell, When wi" a bosom crony ; But still keep something to yoursel Ye scarcely tell to ony. Conceal yoursel as weel's ye can Frae critical dissection ; But keek thro" ev'ry other man, Wi' sharpen'd, sly inspection. The sacred lowe o' weel-plac'd love, Luxuriantly indulge it ; But never tempt th...
Page 325 - The color and the sparkle of dear eyes. Its flowers are sweet with touch of tender hands That once clasped ours. All things are beautiful Because of something lovelier than themselves, Which breathes within them and will never die ; — Haunted, but not with any spectral gloom, Earth is suffused, inhabited by Heaven.
Page 69 - Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again; The eternal years of God are hers; But Error, wounded, writhes in pain, And dies among his worshippers.
Page 68 - Lo, the poor Indian, whose untutored mind Sees God in clouds, and hears Him in the wind...
Page 284 - That sly-boots was cursedly cunning to hide 'em. Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.
Page 76 - Tis pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat, To peep at such a world ; to see the stir Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd ; To hear the roar she sends through all her gates At a safe distance, where the dying sound Falls a soft murmur on the uninjured ear.