: 75 20. Governor. Marcus Morton held the office at this time. He formerly had been congressman and judge. 75 21. Rhode Island. The governor of Rhode Island was James Fenner, who held the office for fourteen years and was prominent in the affairs of his state for fifty years. 76 2. ex-president. John Quincy Adams was President from 1825 to 1829. 768. Adams. John Adams, afterward the second President of the United States. 77 19. respectable. meaning of this word. 849. settlements. "Worthy of respect," is Webster's From 1492 to 1607 and 1620. 84: 14. Henry the Seventh. He was king of England from 1485 to 1509. During these years John and Sebastian Cabot made important discoveries on the coast of North America. 862. civil wars. In 1642, during the reign of Charles I. 865. Lancaster. This controversy was the War of the Roses, which ended with the union of the Houses of York and Lancaster under Henry VII. 86: 12. Luther. Martin Luther (1483-1546). He nailed his ninety-five theses to the church-door in Wittenberg, October 1517. 31, 87 13. Raleigh. Sir Walter Raleigh (1552-1618). He explored the parts of North America, which Queen Elizabeth named Virginia in 1585. 88: 14. Pilgrims. Compare Webster's Address at Plymouth, December 22, 1820, on the "First Settlement of New England." 89 7. sororum. : Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book II, line 13. "All have not like features, nor yet widely different; but such as become sisters." 89: 20. France. There were four of these wars in the years 1689, 1701, 1744, and 1754. 90: 16. Chile. Cortes conquered Mexico in 1520; Pizarro conquered Peru and Chile in 1533. 94 16. fourteen millions. millions. In 1905 there are over seventy 96: 6. Bill of Rights. A part of the constitution of Massachusetts. 99: 25. Carver and Winthrop. John Carver (1575-1621) was the first governor of Plymouth Colony. John Winthrop (1588-1649) was the first governor of Massachusetts. 101: 12. law. This was done when Louis Philippe came into power in 1830. : 102 11. colonists. As colonists continued to come through the seventeenth century, this was literally true. Notice the dates of Bacon, 1561-1626, Locke, 1632-1704, Shakespeare, 1564-1616, and Milton, 1608-1674. 102: 15. Doric. After the character of Doric art and speech, which were plain and expressive. 104 11. House of Burgesses. It met at Jamestown in 1619. 105 13. Hampden and Sidney. John Hampden (1594-1643) refused to pay an unjust tax of Charles I and so became the most popular man in England. Algernon Sidney (1622-1683) endeavored for a long time to establish a republic in England. : 107 19. countrymen. These were the words of Henry Lee in his resolution on the death of Washington, in the House of Representatives, 1799. INDEX absurdum, 126. Cabot, John and Sebastian, 12% act for altering the government, Camden, 120. 121. Adams, John, 127. Adams, John Quincy, 127. adoption of a constitution, 115. Alfred the Great, 125. ancient Colony, 116. Argentine Republic, 117. Articles of Confederation, 115. Bacon, 128. Boston Port Act, 121. Bridge, Ebenezer, 120. Carver, John, 128. Charles the First, 127, 128. civil wars, 127. colonists, 128. colonists from England, 116. Congress of Massachusetts, 121 Cortes, 128. discoverer of America, 116. Doric, 128. Ecuador, 117. election, 113. Elizabeth, Queen, 127. European power, 118. fair in Faneuil Hall, 125. first essay, 115. Lee, Henry, 128. Lincoln, Benjamin, 124. fishing in the Marsheepee River, Lexington, 121. 119. foreign nations, 113. free government, 117. Gardner, Thomas, 123. gesture of Webster, 126. Greece's struggle for independ- Greene, Nathaniel, 123. Hampden, John, 128. hearts of his countrymen, 128. House of Burgesses, 128. interest, 121. Jamestown, 116, 128. Knowlton, Thomas, 126. Lafayette, 122, 125. Louis Philippe, 128. Louis the Fourteenth, 124. McClary, Andrew, 123. Milton's Paradise Lost, 120. Monmouth, 120. Monroe doctrine, 118. negative phrase, 116. North American Review, 125. Ovid's Metamorphoses, 127. palladium, 114. Paraguay, 117. parallel sentences, 116. passage of great beauty, 116. Pomeroy, Seth, 120. Solon, 125. Stark, John, 119. States, 117. population of the United States, subdivisions, 114. 114. position of the United States, 117. 124. Prescott, William, 119. Quincy, Josiah, Jr., 122. Raleigh, Sir Walter, 127. Reed, James, 119. revolution of South America, Sullivan, John, 123. thank you, 119. tones of music, 126. treaty with Great Britain, 115. Tudor, William, 125. unconscious, 114. Venerable men, 118. Virgil's Eneid, 122. War of the Roses, 127. wars in Europe, 124. will, 114. Winthrop, John, 128. years of Washington, 114. Printed in the United States of America. |