...wn country, Stamford Bridge was, in like manner, guarded by a single brave Northman, after the battle fought A.D. 1066, when Earl Tostig, the son of G... ...mbers of which he thrust up his spear, and thus was able to hurl the brave Northman into the river, mortally wounded, but not till great numbers of hi... ...vender.’ We have seen how the sturdy Roman fought for his city, the fierce Northman died to guard his comrades’ rush to their ships after the lost bat... ...ans of defense. The ships of the enemy would coast round the shores of the Aegean sea, the land army would cross the Hellespont on a bridge of boats l... ...gain. The next was at Thermopylae. Look in your map of the Archipelago, or Aegean Sea, as it was then called, for the great island of Negropont, or by... ... name, Euboea. It looks like a piece broken off from the coast, and to the north is shaped like the head of a bird, with the beak running into a gulf,... ...ough Sparta was safe below the Isthmus, had no intention of abandoning his northern allies, and kept the other Peloponnesians to their posts, only sen...

...ering olive-groves of Ilissus, or crown the emerald-islets of the amethyst Aegean! These are gone, but thou remainest. There is still a garland for th... ... have currants, lady? These once bloomed in the island gardens of the blue Aegean. They are uncommon fine ones, and the figure is low; they’re fourpen... ... where the huts are squatted by the Niger, under the palm-trees; where the Northern Babel lies, with its warehouses, and its bridges, its graceful fac... ...in; but all other things must yield to the service of the United States of North America. I have done. What would you, Sire?” and the intrepid republi... ...n ringlet of beauty, the red lock from the forehead of the Scottish or the Northern soldier, the snowy tress of extreme old age, the flaxen down of in... ... I got from that exlent line, which injuiced me to ingage him. “Besides my North British Plate and Breakfast equipidge— I have two handsom suvvices fo... ...Bluenose, Prince Towrowski, the great Sir Huddlestone Fuddlestone from the North, and a skoar of the fust of the fashn. I was in my gloary—the dear Co...

...site for preparing that beautiful and happy invention, without which these northern parts of the world could scarce have afforded a very comfortable h... ...ment must always be posterior to the improvement of that coun- try. In our North American colonies, the plantations have con- stantly followed either ... ...parts of Africa, and all that part of Asia which lies any considerable way north of the Euxine and Caspian seas, the ancient Scythia, the modern T art... ... deal of money was said to have a great deal of other people’s copper. The northern nations who established themselves upon the ru- ins of the Roman e... ...nds rent with profit, at least in common language. The greater part of our North Ameri- can and West Indian planters are in this situation. They farm,... ...he Greeks, to Asia Minor and the islands of the 448 The Wealth of Nations Aegean sea, of which the inhabitants sewn at that time to have been pretty ...