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Page 324 - Pizarro here was born ; a greater name The list of glory boasts not. Toil and pain, Famine, and hostile elements, and hosts Embattled, failed to check him in his course, Not to be wearied, not to be deterred, Not to be overcome. A mighty realm He overran, and with relentless arm Slew or enslaved its unoffending sons, And wealth and power and fame were his rewards. There is another world, beyond the grave, According to their deeds where men are judged.
Page 37 - After burning the villages with all their stores and taking possession of the country in the name of the king of France, the army returned to Canada. 4. Raid against Schenectady...
Page 194 - I am a Priest of God, and I teach Christians the things of God, and in like manner I come to teach you. What I teach is that which God says to us in this Book. Therefore, on the part of God and of the Christians, I beseech you to be their friend, for such is God's will, and it will be for your good. Go and speak to the Governor, who waits for you.
Page 323 - ... followed their example in 1865. His great merit consisted in industry and activity — his error, in want of definiteness of aim, in over-production. The Royal Society's Catalogue of Scientific Papers contains a list, carried down to 1863 only, of no less than 230 contributions to scientific journals. At the time of his death, which took place on the 26th of February last, this list must have been greatly extended. Their value is probably not in proportion to their extent ; but it cannot be doubted...
Page 222 - He said all this without betraying a sign of anxiety; but he laughed the better to conceal his evil design, and practiced many other arts such as would suggest themselves to a quick-witted man. After he was a prisoner, the Spaniards who heard him were astounded to find so...
Page 197 - Peruvians were completely taken by surprise, and did not know which way to turn, or what to do.
Page 145 - ... merely political before initiation and in terms of ending, but political during the process of fighting itself. Such conflicts therefore raise acute and fascinating psychological problems for our decisionmakers, especially our military leaders. To ask a man to risk his life and the lives of his men in order to take a hill on the way to "victory
Page 240 - ... for gold, invaded the tombs of the dead, and robbed the corpses of their adornments.