Pictorial History of America: From the Earliest Times to the Close of the Mexican War. Embracing the Most Remarkable Events which Have Transpired Since the Discovery, المجلد 1J. L. Gihon, 1853 |
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... Indians lurked in the woods , and watched all their movements ; to advance was useless , if not impossible , from the difficulty of the country : and retreat was exposed to the worst ills of Indian warfare . But retreat was now ...
... Indians lurked in the woods , and watched all their movements ; to advance was useless , if not impossible , from the difficulty of the country : and retreat was exposed to the worst ills of Indian warfare . But retreat was now ...
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... Indians so much that they never afterwards regarded the Spaniards favour- ably . Alvaro and his companions were , in consequence , reduced to the condition of slaves , and treated with much severity ; as all the calamities of want and ...
... Indians so much that they never afterwards regarded the Spaniards favour- ably . Alvaro and his companions were , in consequence , reduced to the condition of slaves , and treated with much severity ; as all the calamities of want and ...
الصفحة 105
... Indians , was easily propagated from tribe to tribe . Alvaro , travelling westward , crossed a great river , and then entered upon those deserts which separate the territories of Mexico from those of the United States . In answer to his ...
... Indians , was easily propagated from tribe to tribe . Alvaro , travelling westward , crossed a great river , and then entered upon those deserts which separate the territories of Mexico from those of the United States . In answer to his ...
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... Indians might deter others from following such an example ; and he adopted one which appears to have been the most inju- dicious possible . The warriors saved from the pond were distributed among this people to be employed as cooks and ...
... Indians might deter others from following such an example ; and he adopted one which appears to have been the most inju- dicious possible . The warriors saved from the pond were distributed among this people to be employed as cooks and ...
الصفحة 136
... Indians , till they had disposed of all the goods they had brought , and loaded their ships with skins , sassa- fras , and cedar . They procured also some pearls from them , and a little tobacco , which they found the Indians very fond ...
... Indians , till they had disposed of all the goods they had brought , and loaded their ships with skins , sassa- fras , and cedar . They procured also some pearls from them , and a little tobacco , which they found the Indians very fond ...
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الصفحة 755 - Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery ! Our chains are forged ; their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable — and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come! It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, peace; but there is no peace.
الصفحة 663 - Treason, treason!" echoed from every part of the house. Henry faltered not for an instant, but, taking a loftier attitude, and fixing on the speaker an eye of fire, he added " may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it...
الصفحة 218 - Having undertaken, for the glory of God and advancement of the Christian faith and honor of our King and Country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia, do by these presents, solemnly and mutually, in the presence of God, and one of another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic...
الصفحة 433 - I choose to solve the controversy with this small distinction, and it belongs to all three: any government is free to the people under it (whatever be the frame) where the laws rule and the people are a party to those laws, and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or confusion.
الصفحة 749 - A Provisional Act, for settling the Troubles in America, and for asserting the Supreme Legislative Authority and Superintending Power of Great Britain over the Colonies.
الصفحة 653 - They planted by your care! No! your oppressions planted them in America. — They fled from your tyranny to a then uncultivated and...
الصفحة 686 - I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest.
الصفحة 218 - ... to enact, constitute, and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.
الصفحة 27 - October, after public prayers for success, he ordered the sails to be furled, and the ships to lie to, keeping strict watch lest they should be driven ashore in the night. During this interval of suspense and expectation, no man shut his eyes, all kept upon deck, gazing intently towards that quarter where they expected to discover the land, which had so long been the object of their wishes.
الصفحة 755 - Three millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us.