Life of General Houston, 1793-1863Dodd, Mead, 1891 - 232 pàgines |
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Pàgina 19 - Innocent. Some months before he had chanced upon a stray copy of Mr. Pope's ingenious translation of the Iliad. He now proposed to narrate the principal incidents of that poem — having thoroughly mastered the argument and fairly forgotten the words— in the current vernacular of Sandy Bar. And so for the rest of that night the Homeric demigods again walked the earth. Trojan bully and wily Greek wrestled in the winds, and the great pines in the canon seemed to bow to the wrath of the son of Peleus....
Pàgina 102 - If this call is neglected, I am determined to sustain myself as long as possible and die like a soldier who never forgets what is due to his own honor and that of his country. VICTORY OR DEATH.
Pàgina 104 - ... from the interior. We are therefore forced to the melancholy conclusion that the Mexican people have acquiesced in the destruction of their liberty, and the substitution therefor of a military government ; that they are unfit to be free, and incapable of self-government. " The necessity of self-preservation, therefore, now decrees our eternal political separation. " We, therefore, the delegates, with plenary powers, of the people of Texas, in solemn convention assembled...
Pàgina 103 - It has invaded our country both by sea and by land, with intent to lay waste our territory, and drive us from our homes; and has now a large mercenary army advancing, to carry on against us a war of extermination.
Pàgina 102 - I shall never surrender or retreat. Then, I call on you in the name of Liberty, of patriotism, and everything dear to the American character, to come to our aid, with all dispatch.
Pàgina 106 - Take care of my little boy. If the country should be saved, I may make him a splendid fortune ; but if the country should be lost, and I should perish, he will have nothing but the proud recollection that he is the son of a man who died for his country...
Pàgina 118 - You know I am not easily depressed, but, before my God, since we parted, I have found the darkest hours of my past life ! My excitement has been so great, that, for forty-eight hours, I have not eaten an ounce, nor have I slept. I was in constant apprehension of a rout ; a constant panic existed in the lines : yet I managed so well, or such was my good luck, that not a gun was fired in or near the camp, or on the march (except to kill beef), from the Guadalupe to the Colorado.
Pàgina 115 - Sec. 3. The members of the house of representatives shall be chosen annually on the first Monday of September each year, until congress shall otherwise provide by law, and shall hold their offices one year from the date of their election. Sec. 4. No person shall be eligible to a seat in the house of...
Pàgina 131 - if you find him at all, making his retreat on all fours, and he will be dressed as bad, at least, as a common soldier. Examine closely every man you find.
Pàgina 3 - D'Autray that of the east, while Tonty took the middle passage. As he drifted down the turbid current, between the low and marshy shores, the brackish water changed to brine, and the breeze grew fresh with the salt breath of the sea. Then the broad bosom of the great Gulf opened on his sight, tossing its restless billows, limitless, voiceless, lonely as when born of chaos, without a sail, without a sign of life.
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Encyclopedia of the War of 1812 David Stephen Heidler,Jeanne T. Heidler Previsualització no disponible - 2004 |