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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... sailed westward , through a strait which separated the island from a promontory projecting northerly from the shore , and finally reached a place where a river , issuing from a lake above , fell into the sea Here Leif determined to ...
... sailed westward , through a strait which separated the island from a promontory projecting northerly from the shore , and finally reached a place where a river , issuing from a lake above , fell into the sea Here Leif determined to ...
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... sailed again for Greenland . Kialarness , or Keel Cape , is supposed , by the Danish Society of An- tiquaries , as we remarked just now , to be Cape Cod . Admitting this supposition to be correct , the promontory where Thorwald was ...
... sailed again for Greenland . Kialarness , or Keel Cape , is supposed , by the Danish Society of An- tiquaries , as we remarked just now , to be Cape Cod . Admitting this supposition to be correct , the promontory where Thorwald was ...
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... sailed herself , in company with two Norwegians , Helge and Finnboge , recently arrived in Greenland , a crew of about thirty - five men and a number of women . She returned the next year , without hav- ing attempted a settlement , and ...
... sailed herself , in company with two Norwegians , Helge and Finnboge , recently arrived in Greenland , a crew of about thirty - five men and a number of women . She returned the next year , without hav- ing attempted a settlement , and ...
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... sailed , September 6th , a due western course into an unknown ocean . Columbus now found a thousand unforeseen hardships to encounter , which demanded all his judgment , fortitude , and address to surmount . Besides the difficulties ...
... sailed , September 6th , a due western course into an unknown ocean . Columbus now found a thousand unforeseen hardships to encounter , which demanded all his judgment , fortitude , and address to surmount . Besides the difficulties ...
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... sailed upon his second voyage to America , during the performance of which he discovered the islands of Dominica , Marigalante , Guadaloupe , Montserrat , Antigua , Porto Rico and Jamaica ; and returned to Spain in 1496. In 1498 he sailed ...
... sailed upon his second voyage to America , during the performance of which he discovered the islands of Dominica , Marigalante , Guadaloupe , Montserrat , Antigua , Porto Rico and Jamaica ; and returned to Spain in 1496. In 1498 he sailed ...
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afterwards alarm America appeared appointed arms army arrived Assembly attack attempt Boston Britain British cacique Canada Captain Carolina carried charter church coast Colonel colonists colony command conduct Connecticut Cortes council countrymen court crown Crown Point danger declared defence despatched Dutch endeavoured enemy England English established expedition favour fire force Fort Duquesne France French friends garrison George Carteret governor Hampshire harbour honour hundred Indians inhabitants island killed king labour land laws liberty Lord Lord Baltimore Lord Loudoun Massachusetts ment ministers Narraganset nation natives officers parliament party peace persons Pizarro planters Plymouth possession present prisoners proceeded proprietors province provisions Quakers received rendered respect Rhode Island river royal sachem sailed savages Savanna sent sentiments settlement settlers ships shore soon Spaniards Spanish spirit Stamp Act states-general success thousand tion took town trade tribes troops vessels Virginia voyage William wounded Yamassees
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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.