The New American Citizen: A Reader for ForeignersMacmillan, 1909 - 206 páginas |
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... persons . Either the ideas themselves are juvenile or the vocabulary not the most suitable to the needs of grown - up pupils . The purpose of the author has been to pre- pare a series of reading lessons suitable for adult learners and ...
... persons . Either the ideas themselves are juvenile or the vocabulary not the most suitable to the needs of grown - up pupils . The purpose of the author has been to pre- pare a series of reading lessons suitable for adult learners and ...
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... an absolute monarchy these powers are all exercised by one person , the monarch , but in constitutional governments they are given to different persons . In the United States the three powers are divided as 66 CIVICS AND PATRIOTISM.
... an absolute monarchy these powers are all exercised by one person , the monarch , but in constitutional governments they are given to different persons . In the United States the three powers are divided as 66 CIVICS AND PATRIOTISM.
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... person stands alone ; that one person has nothing to do with another . But if a father dies , OUR GOVERNMENT 67.
... person stands alone ; that one person has nothing to do with another . But if a father dies , OUR GOVERNMENT 67.
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... mies , but if you quarrel and separate , it will happen to you as to these sticks , which you see lying broken on the ground . " The anarchists believe in separating the sticks , while a person with common sense will see OUR GOVERNMENT 69.
... mies , but if you quarrel and separate , it will happen to you as to these sticks , which you see lying broken on the ground . " The anarchists believe in separating the sticks , while a person with common sense will see OUR GOVERNMENT 69.
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A Reader for Foreigners Frances Sankstone Mintz. sticks , while a person with common sense will see that the only solution is to keep the sticks tied together . In union is strength , just as Daniel Webster said , " United we stand , di ...
A Reader for Foreigners Frances Sankstone Mintz. sticks , while a person with common sense will see that the only solution is to keep the sticks tied together . In union is strength , just as Daniel Webster said , " United we stand , di ...
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Abraham Lincoln Æsop America Amsterdam anarchist Anno Domini army Avenue bad laws battle BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG BATTLE OF SARATOGA beautiful become a citizen bell of justice Betsey Ross Boston brave buildings built California called CAPITOL Chicago CHICAGO STOCK YARDS City Hall coal coffee cold colonists colony Columbus Concord Congress Constitution copper cotton court declaration of intention Dutch elected emigrated England English factories Faneuil Hall father fight flag foreign Fort Sumter fought freedom George Washington gold harbor hare Hudson intention to become Jersey king land Language Reader liberty Library little girl lives look match Mill nation North Old North Church Orleans paper Park person Peter Stuyvesant petition petitioner Pilgrims plantations polygamist poor President RAYBROOK SANITARIUM river schools senators sent ship soldiers South southern stars sticks summer thousand thro tion to-day tortoise tree Union United William Penn York City
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Página 22 - THE breaking waves dashed high On a stern and rock-bound coast, And the woods against a stormy sky Their giant branches tossed ; And the heavy night hung dark The hills and waters o'er, When a band of exiles moored their bark On the wild New England shore.
Página 183 - Woodman, spare that tree ! Touch not a single bough ! In youth it sheltered me, And I'll protect it now. 'Twas my forefather's hand That placed it near his cot; There, woodman, let it stand, Thy axe shall harm it not. That old familiar tree, Whose glory and renown Are spread o'er land and sea — And wouldst thou hew it down? Woodman, forbear thy stroke! Cut not its earth-bound ties...
Página 192 - Come wealth or want, come good or ill, Let young and old accept their part, And bow before the Awful Will, And bear it with an honest heart, Who misses or who wins the prize. — Go, lose or conquer as you can ; But if you fail, or if you rise, Be each, pray God, a gentleman.
Página 72 - States, and to renounce forever all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty, and particularly, by name, to the prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty of which the alien may be at the time a citizen or subject.
Página 188 - Those joyous hours are past away ; And many a heart, that then was gay, Within the tomb now darkly dwells, And hears no more those evening bells. And so 'twill be when I am gone ; That tuneful peal will still ring on, While other bards shall walk these...
Página 23 - What sought they thus afar ? Bright jewels of the mine ? The wealth of seas? the spoils of war? — They sought a faith's pure shrine...
Página 22 - Amidst the storm they sang, And the stars heard, and the sea; And the sounding aisles of the dim woods rang To the anthem of the free! The ocean eagle soared From his nest by the white wave's foam; And the rocking pines of the forest roared — This was their welcome home ! There were men with hoary hair Amidst that pilgrim band: Why had they come to wither there.
Página 185 - No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him ; there is always work, And tools to work withal, for those who will; And blessed are the horny hands of toil...
Página 191 - I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, 1 knew not where; For who has sight so keen and strong, That it can follow the flight of song ? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroke ; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.
Página 23 - Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod; They have left unstained what there they found — Freedom to worship God.