Category: History - American
"Long days be his, and each as lusty-sweet As gracious natures find his song to be; May age steal on with softly-cadenced feet Falling in music, as for him were meet Whose choicest note is harsher-toned than he!"
WHEN one thinks of the resounding chorus of gratulations with which the four hundredth anniversary of the Discovery of America was lately heralded to a listening world, it is cu...
16. CHAPTER IV.THE men of bygone days were quite as fond as ourselves of playing with names, and the name of Christopher, or "Christ-bearer," was a favourite subject for such pastime. The old...
17. CHAPTER V.OF late years there has been some discussion as to which of the flowers or plants indigenous to the New World might most properly be selected as a national emblem for the United...
14. CHAPTER III.WHILE Captain Christopher Newport, with the ships of the London Company, is still in mid-ocean, and the seal of the king's casket containing the names of Virginia's first rulers...
21. CHAPTER IX.WE have already had occasion to observe that, while from the outset Lord Baltimore's enterprise found many enemies in England, it was at the same time regarded with no friendly...
19. CHAPTER VII.From the busy streets of London, from the strife in Parliament and the Privy Council, we must turn once more to the American wilderness and observe what progress had been made i...
18. CHAPTER VI.FEW episodes in English history are more curious than the founding of Virginia. In the course of the mightiest conflict the world had witnessed between the powers of despotism a...
20. CHAPTER VIII.ON the southwestern coast of Ireland, not far from Cape Clear, the steamship on its way from New York to Liverpool passes within sight of a small promontory crowned by an ancien...
13. ACT III., SCENE 2. _Enter Seagull, Spendall, and Scapethrift in the_Scapethrift._ Fill all the pots in your house with all sorts of liquor, and let 'em wait on us here like soldiers in their pewter coats; and though we do not employ them now, y...
12. CHAPTER II.IN all the history of human knowledge there is no more fascinating chapter than that which deals with the gradual expansion of men's geographical ideas consequent upon the great...
15. vivid. There is a fascination too, not unmixed with sadness, inwatching the early dreams of El Dorado fade away as the stern reality of a New World to be conquered comes to make itself known and felt. Naturally the old delusions persisted a...
1. VOLUME I"Long days be his, and each as lusty-sweet As gracious natures find his song to be; May age steal on with softly-cadenced feet Falling in music, as for him were meet Whose choic...
4. CHAPTER III2. CHAPTER I.3. CHAPTER II5. CHAPTER IV.6. CHAPTER V.10. CHAPTER IX.7. CHAPTER VI.8. CHAPTER VII.9. CHAPTER VIII.