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“Do you still tell me that I have power over the waves? Oh! foolish men, do you not know that to God alone belongs such power? He alone rules earth and sky and sea, and we and they alike are His subjects, and must obey Him." The”
― H.E. Marshall, An Island Story

“All Christian lands count time from the year in which Christ was born, because His coming is the most wonderful thing which has ever happened. Anything that took place before Christ was born is said to be in such and such a year B.C. Everything which has taken place since then is said to be A.D. or Anno Domini, which means, "in the year of our Lord.”
― H.E. Marshall, An Island Story

“I am as nobly born as you," he said proudly to Claudius. "I had men and horses, lands and great riches. Was it wonderful that I wished to keep them? You fight to gain possession of the whole world and make all men your slaves, but I fought for my own land and for freedom. Kill me now and people will think little of you: but if you grant me my life, all men will know that you are not only powerful but merciful." Instead”
― H.E. Marshall, An Island Story

“Oh, Daddy, do 'splain yourself you are not 'splaining yourself at all.”
― H. E. Marshall

“On came the duke's fleet, till the vessels touched the shore. Duke William was the first to spring to land, but as he did so he stumbled and fell. "Alas! what bad luck," cried the soldiers around him; but William sprang up with a laugh, and turning to them showed his hands full of earth. "See," he cried, "I have already taken hold of my kingdom." Then a soldier, who had sprung ashore after the duke, ran to a cottage, and tearing from it some thatch, said, "Take hold not only of England, but of what England holds." "I accept it," said the duke. "May God be with us.”
― H.E. Marshall, Our Island Story

“yet severe”
― H.E. Marshall, This Country of Ours: The Story of the United States Volume 1: H. E. Marshall's "This Country of Ours" - Annotated, Expanded, and Updated

“OUR
ISLAND STORY”
― H.E. Marshall, Our Island Story

“Once a cry went through the Norman ranks that Duke William was killed. Hearing that they would have fled, but Duke William rode among them bareheaded, calling to them and cheering them on. And when the Normans saw their great duke's face, they took heart and turned once more to the fight. As the day drew to an end it was seen, alas, that the English were beaten. They gathered close around their king and his standard, fighting fiercely and bravely to the last. And when Harold fell, pierced with an arrow, his brave knights fought still over his dead body. But when night came, all the bravest and the best men of England lay with their king, dead upon the field.”
― H.E. Marshall, Our Island Story

“For Americans as a nation hate war, and see the folly of it more clearly than many peoples of the Old World. They have denied the right of Europe to interfere with things American, and they have also set their face against any American interference in the things of Europe, and they hesitated to draw the sword in a quarrel not their own, thereby plunging a peaceful people into the agony of war.”
― H.E. Marshall, An Island Story

“Raleigh was the true father of England beyond the seas. He was a great statesman and patriot. But he was a dreamer, too, and all his schemes failed. Other men followed him who likewise failed. But it would take too long to tell of them all, of Bartholomew Gosnold who led the first expedition to Martha’s Vineyard and Cape Cod and”
― H.E. Marshall, This Country of Ours: The Story of the United States Volume 1: H. E. Marshall's "This Country of Ours" - Annotated, Expanded, and Updated

“Smith had been away from the settlement nearly a month, and he returned to find the colony in confusion and misery. Many had died, and those who remained were quarreling among themselves. Indeed some were on the point of deserting and sneaking off to England in the one little ship they had. They were not in the least pleased to see Smith return, and they resolved once more to get rid of”
― H.E. Marshall, This Country of Ours: The Story of the United States Volume 1: H. E. Marshall's "This Country of Ours" - Annotated, Expanded, and Updated

“unrest”
― H.E. Marshall, The Story of Napoleon

“How the Vikings of Old Sought and Found New Lands”
― H. E. (Henrietta Elizabeth) Marshall, This Country of Ours

“The Great Charter was sealed with the King's seal.”
― H.E. Marshall, Our Island Story

“make of it what they would”
― H.E. Marshall, This Country of Ours: The Story of the United States Volume 1: H. E. Marshall's "This Country of Ours" - Annotated, Expanded, and Updated

“Is life so dear, or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery! Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!”
― H.E. Marshall, This Country of Ours

“Over the blue sea they came, the white - sailed vessels crowded with knights in armor, champing war - horses, bowmen, and spearmen. Such an army had seldom before been seen. Duke William's vessel was the gayest and proudest of them all. The sails were crimson, the deck and masts were gaily painted. A golden boy was on the prow, leaning forward as if to catch the first glimpse of England. By day the proud banner, embroidered with the three golden lions of Normandy, fluttered in the breeze. By night a crescent of light shone from the masthead, so that all could see their lord's ship and follow where he led. On they came, day and night till, with a shout, they greeted the shores of England.”
― H.E. Marshall, Our Island Story

“they might destroy the colony utterly.”
― H.E. Marshall, This Country of Ours: The Story of the United States Volume 1: H. E. Marshall's "This Country of Ours" - Annotated, Expanded, and Updated

“A magician is a person who can do difficult things quite easily. His real home is in fairy-land, and he understands fairy-language. The fairies come and whisper their wonderful secrets to him, although no-one else can see or hear them.”
― H.E. Marshall, Our Island Story

“LXVII”
― H.E. Marshall, English Literature for Boys and Girls