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Example sentences for "our history"

  • But it is growing late, as it wants but a quarter to nine o'clock; we must therefore defer the remainder of our history till to-morrow.

  • Well, my dears, now do not forget what you have been already told, and another day we will talk further on this subject: for the present, let us attend to our history.

  • It is growing late--we must think of our history, or we shall spend all the evening in chit-chat.

  • Columbus, Smith, and Raleigh stand at the portals of our history, types of the faith, success and honor which are our heritage.

  • They belong to our history only in so far as their savage and treacherous hostility contributed to harden the fortitude of our earlier settlers, and to weld them into a united people.

  • That date is inscribed on the front page of our history, and the Pilgrim Fathers and their wives and daughters are celebrated persons, though they were only a lot of English farmers in exile for heresy.

  • The year 1649 is memorable for the passage of the Maryland Toleration Act, the first of its kind in our history.

  • The year 1609 is important in our history.

  • The student who can take such broad views of our history, and put his knowledge in his own words, will acquire information that is not likely to be forgotten.

  • For yet another reason the year 1800 is a memorable one in our history.

  • What trees are celebrated in our history?

  • What treaties are celebrated in our history?

  • What tea party is celebrated in our history?

  • How many rebellions have occurred in our history?

  • The death of Harrison and the succession of Tyler, was the first instance of the kind in our history.

  • Never in any former period of our history have we had greater reason than we now have to be thankful to Divine Providence for the blessings of health and general prosperity.

  • In conclusion permit me to invoke that Power which superintends all governments to infuse into your deliberations at this important crisis of our history a spirit of mutual forbearance and conciliation.

  • Anglo-Normans, which has ever since remained one of the cardinal texts of our history.

  • Among the Anglo-Irish we find the first instance of that mania which appears in our history, and we believe the only one, if we except the Presbyterian witches Of Carrickfergus, in the early part of the eighteenth century.

  • This has been tried at different critical periods of our history, and always with eminent success.

  • Indeed, notwithstanding our demerits, we have much reason to believe from the past events in our history that we have enjoyed the special protection of Divine Providence ever since our origin as a nation.

  • It is one of three or four great landmarks in our history--the great turning points in our development.

  • This purchase was the greatest instance of expansion in our history.

  • It Is therefore a matter for hearty congratulation that on the whole wages are higher to-day in the United States than ever before in our history, and far higher than in any other country.

  • But for their steadfast prowess in the greatest crisis of our history, all our annals would be meaningless, and our great experiment in popular freedom and self-government a gloomy failure.

  • There is something exceedingly sublime and melancholy in the spectacle which the present crisis of our history presents.

  • Now, as then, He never forgets us, never overlooks the least circumstance in our history, and never ceases for one moment to have that interest in us which is possible only for such a Brother or Saviour to possess.

  • Oh, consider the possibility of this being the record at judgment of our history, that we may start, as from a nightmare, from so hideous an imputation!

  • It is certainly one of the strangest stories in our history, that one of our Kings should have been married in that distant isle of Cyprus, after conquering it, as a sort of episode in his crusade.

  • The history of that commission is one of the best known episodes in our history.

  • There have been worse in our history, but this was one of the gravest; and never did a President stand, so far as any one could see, so utterly alone.

  • We are concerned here merely with the influence and effect of Washington in our history, and not with the history itself.

  • Every reader has heard that great tale in our history, and everybody knows that it was Burke's tenacity and power which caused that tale to be told.

  • Like some other men in our history, he showed that books are a better preparation for statesmanship than early training in the subordinate posts and among the permanent officials of a public department.

  • To the three causes given above the translator adds a fourth and most important one: Any change in our tariff laws general enough to rise to the dignity of a new tariff has with one exception in our history precipitated a panic.

  • During this period agriculture, for the first time in our history, was in a miserable condition.

  • The duke and his brother George were each blessed with offspring, and in these several descendants of the different branches of the family of Denbigh may be seen the different personages of our history.

  • As the subject of his confession must be anticipated by the reader, we will give a short relation of his life, and of those acts which more materially affect our history.

  • We shall leave Jane to brood over her lover's misconduct, while we regret she is without the consolation alone able to bear her up against the misfortunes of life, and return to the other personages of our history.


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