The Kensington series of lesson books (ed. by J.W. Laurie). Primer, pt, Volum 6 |
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Pàgina 83
... Napoleon Bonaparte , a young Corsican , rose to the command of the French army , gained several brilliant victories in Italy , and led an expedition against Egypt . The French fleet was signally defeated by Lord Nelson at the mouth of ...
... Napoleon Bonaparte , a young Corsican , rose to the command of the French army , gained several brilliant victories in Italy , and led an expedition against Egypt . The French fleet was signally defeated by Lord Nelson at the mouth of ...
Pàgina 104
... Napoleon was crowned Emperor of the French . His first step was to assemble at Boulogne a very large army destined to invade England . 19. Nelson , commander of the English fleet , sailed to the Mediterranean , where , for fifteen ...
... Napoleon was crowned Emperor of the French . His first step was to assemble at Boulogne a very large army destined to invade England . 19. Nelson , commander of the English fleet , sailed to the Mediterranean , where , for fifteen ...
Pàgina 105
... Napoleon on the Continent . He crushed the armies that Austria , Prussia , and Russia brought into the field against him ; and in the supremacy of his power declared the British Isles in a state of blockade , and forbade any European ...
... Napoleon on the Continent . He crushed the armies that Austria , Prussia , and Russia brought into the field against him ; and in the supremacy of his power declared the British Isles in a state of blockade , and forbade any European ...
Pàgina 106
... Napoleon had placed kings of his own choosing - his brothers or his generals - on the thrones of many lands ; in 1808 the King of Spain was dispossessed to make way for Joseph Bonaparte . 21. There followed a general uprising , both in ...
... Napoleon had placed kings of his own choosing - his brothers or his generals - on the thrones of many lands ; in 1808 the King of Spain was dispossessed to make way for Joseph Bonaparte . 21. There followed a general uprising , both in ...
Pàgina 107
... Napoleon himself had left Spain in 1807 . Austria had once more taken up arms and been defeated by him . In 1812 he invaded Russia , and entered Moscow . Fires broke out by night , Moscow was burnt to the ground , and the French army ...
... Napoleon himself had left Spain in 1807 . Austria had once more taken up arms and been defeated by him . In 1812 he invaded Russia , and entered Moscow . Fires broke out by night , Moscow was burnt to the ground , and the French army ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 271 - midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way...
Pàgina 201 - I would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polished manners and fine sense Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.
Pàgina 110 - Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried.
Pàgina 201 - Though graced with polished manners and fine sense (Yet wanting sensibility), the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path; But he that has humanity, forewarned, Will tread aside, and let the reptile live.
Pàgina 271 - There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast, — The desert and illimitable air, Lone wandering, but not lost.
Pàgina 124 - Some glossy-leaved, and shining in the sun, The maple, and the beech of oily nuts Prolific, and the lime at dewy eve Diffusing odours ; nor unnoted pass The sycamore, capricious in attire, Now green, now tawny, and ere autumn yet Have changed the woods, in scarlet honours bright.
Pàgina 64 - A heritage, it seems to me, A king might wish to hold in fee.
Pàgina 111 - By the struggling moonbeam's misty light And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet nor in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow.
Pàgina 124 - No tree in all the grove but has its charms, Though each its hue peculiar...
Pàgina 55 - I will be very frank with you. I was the last to consent to the separation; but the separation having been made, and having become inevitable, I have always said, as I say now, that I would be the first to meet the friendship of the United States as an independent power.