The Man Without a CountryRoberts Bros., 1888 - 106 من الصفحات |
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Aaron Burr Adams adventures asked Nolan asso bade me take beautiful map boat book and read bring him birds Cape Palmas captain Colonel Morgan court court-martial cousin cried Damn the United Danforth dear old deck died English fiction finest party finished loading fit of frenzy Fort Adams FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATION garrison sneered gave George Washington Graff graph that alluded happened heard hogshead horses in Texas imprisonment Ingham Iron Mask Jefferson knew ladies Lady Hamilton laughed letter loading the gun long cruise Louisiana mess Mississippi navy negroes never hear Nolan took Nolan's scrap-books officer Old Abe Old Morgan Orleans Palmas paper Plain-Buttons Portuguese prisoner punishment reader remember schooner second cruise Shaw ship smile SOUTHARD Spanish state-room story sword of ceremony TAILPIECE talk tell thing thought to-day took the book Vallandigham voyage Washington wish wretch
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الصفحة 43 - From wandering on a foreign strand? If such there breathe, go, mark him well; For him no minstrel raptures swell ; High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim, — Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch...
الصفحة 43 - From wandering on a foreign strand ? If such there breathe, go, mark him well; For him no minstrel raptures swell ; High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim, — Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonored, and unsung.
الصفحة 99 - But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.
الصفحة 82 - Mexico. The United States had been cut out when the atlas was bought for him. But it was voted, rightly enough, that to do this would be virtually to reveal to him what had happened, or, as Harry Cole said, to make him think Old Burr had succeeded. So it was from no fault of Nolan's that a great botch happened at my own table, when, for a short time, I was in command of the George Washington corvette, on the South American station. We were lying in the La Plata, and some of the officers, who had...
الصفحة 77 - Think of your home, boy; write and send, and talk about it. Let it be nearer and nearer to your thought, the farther you have to travel from it; and rush back to it when you are free, as that poor black slave is doing now. And for your country, boy, ' ' and the words rattled in his throat, "and for that flag...
الصفحة 98 - And then he said he would go to sleep. He bent me down over him and kissed me ; and he said, ' Look in my Bible, Danforth, when I am gone.' And I went away. " But I had no thought it was the end. I thought he was tired and would sleep. I knew he was happy and I wanted him to be alone. " But in an hour, when the doctor went in gently, he found Nolan had breathed his life away with a smile. He had something pressed close to his lips.
الصفحة 63 - And after the whole thing was over, and he had the Englishman's sword, in the midst of the state and ceremony of the quarter-deck, he said, — "Where is Mr. Nolan? Ask Mr. Nolan to come here.
الصفحة 89 - Here, you see, I have a country ! " And then he pointed to the 89 foot of his bed, where I had not seen before a great map of the United States, as he had drawn it from memory, and which he had there to look upon as he lay. Quaint, queer old names were on it in large letters :
الصفحة 77 - No matter what happens to you, no matter who flatters you or who abuses you, never lo~>k at another flag, never let a night pass but you pray God to bless that flag. Remember, boy, that behind all these men you have to do with, behind officers and Government and people even, there is the Country Herself, your Country, and that you belong to Her as you belong to your own mother. Stand by Her, boy, as you would stand by your mother, if those devils there had got hold of her to-day!
الصفحة 53 - ... and he did not announce the name of the dance. He merely bowed, began on the air, and they all fell to — the officers teaching the English girls the figure, but not telling them why it had no name. But that is not the story I started to tell. As the dancing went on, Nolan and our fellows all got at ease, as I said — so much so, that it seemed 'quite natural for him to bow to that splendid Mrs. Graff, and say: "I hope you have not forgotten me, Miss Rutledge. Shall I have the honor of dancing?