Source-book of American History: Ed. for Schools and ReadersAlbert Bushnell Hart Macmillan, 1899 - 408 страница This book offers a survey of American history, from the earliest colonial times through the Spanish-American War. The source book is directed at an adolescent crowd, and contains further explanations in the margins. The subject matter is rather balanced between political, military, and societal events and trends. |
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... nature ; otherwise we shall be found demanding bricks without straw , or failing to utilize the full capacity of the learner . Obviously with the younger classes stress should be laid on the cultivation of the memory and the imagina ...
... nature ; otherwise we shall be found demanding bricks without straw , or failing to utilize the full capacity of the learner . Obviously with the younger classes stress should be laid on the cultivation of the memory and the imagina ...
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... nature , such an appreciation of the relation of results to causes that life and his relations to it will have a better and deeper meaning to him . History will then do its proper work of raising the standard of patriotism and civic ...
... nature , such an appreciation of the relation of results to causes that life and his relations to it will have a better and deeper meaning to him . History will then do its proper work of raising the standard of patriotism and civic ...
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... nature and quality of each : yet the islands are not so thickly wooded as to be impassable . The nightingale and various birds were singing in countless numbers , and that in November , the month in which I arrived there . . . . The ...
... nature and quality of each : yet the islands are not so thickly wooded as to be impassable . The nightingale and various birds were singing in countless numbers , and that in November , the month in which I arrived there . . . . The ...
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... the affayres [ affairs ] of the newe Indies , lookynge dayely for shippes to bee fur- nysshed for hym to discouer this hyd secreate of nature . the death of Frustrated by This vyage is appoynted to No. 2 ] 5 Sebastian Cabot.
... the affayres [ affairs ] of the newe Indies , lookynge dayely for shippes to bee fur- nysshed for hym to discouer this hyd secreate of nature . the death of Frustrated by This vyage is appoynted to No. 2 ] 5 Sebastian Cabot.
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... Nature in few places affoords any so conuenient , for salt Marshes or Quagmires . In this tract of Iames Towne Riuer I know very few ; some small Marshes and Swamps there are , but more profitable then [ than ] hurtfull : and I thinke ...
... Nature in few places affoords any so conuenient , for salt Marshes or Quagmires . In this tract of Iames Towne Riuer I know very few ; some small Marshes and Swamps there are , but more profitable then [ than ] hurtfull : and I thinke ...
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