Universal History, Ancient and Modern: From the Earliest Records of Time, to the General Peace of 1801 ...I. Collins and son, 1805 |
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... cause of their misfortunes , with death : the natives brought them in provisions with reluc- tance , and menaced to withdraw those supplies altogether . Such a resolution must have been quickly fatal to the Spaniards . Their safety de ...
... cause of their misfortunes , with death : the natives brought them in provisions with reluc- tance , and menaced to withdraw those supplies altogether . Such a resolution must have been quickly fatal to the Spaniards . Their safety de ...
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... cause . This was Bartholomew de las Casas , a native of Seville , and one of the clergymen sent out with Columbus in his second voyage to Hispaniola , in order to settle in that island . He early adopted the opinion prevalent among ...
... cause . This was Bartholomew de las Casas , a native of Seville , and one of the clergymen sent out with Columbus in his second voyage to Hispaniola , in order to settle in that island . He early adopted the opinion prevalent among ...
الصفحة 60
... cause of the Indians , and obtained a commission from the monks of St. Jerome to go to America and examine their situation , and give them every relief that the case admitted.- Las Casas was appointed to accompany them , with the title ...
... cause of the Indians , and obtained a commission from the monks of St. Jerome to go to America and examine their situation , and give them every relief that the case admitted.- Las Casas was appointed to accompany them , with the title ...
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... cause he had engaged . When he arrived , he found Ximenes declining in health , and preparing to resign his authority to the young king . Him Las Casas plied with intercessions in behalf of the A- mericans , and at length obtained the ...
... cause he had engaged . When he arrived , he found Ximenes declining in health , and preparing to resign his authority to the young king . Him Las Casas plied with intercessions in behalf of the A- mericans , and at length obtained the ...
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... causes combine in rendering the cli- mate of America so extremely different from that of the ancient continent . America advances nearer to the pole than either Europe or Asia . Both these have large seas to the north , which are open ...
... causes combine in rendering the cli- mate of America so extremely different from that of the ancient continent . America advances nearer to the pole than either Europe or Asia . Both these have large seas to the north , which are open ...
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Almagro America animals appeared appointed arms army arrived Atahualpa attempted Barbadoes British Canada Caribbees carried cazique chief civil climate coast colonies colours Columbus command conduct congress considerable continent Cortes court crown crown of Castile Cuba cultivation Cuzco death Diego Columbus discovered discovery Dominica dominion earth endeavoured enemies England English established Europe European expedition extended favour Ferdinand force French gave gold governor Great-Britain Grenada Hispaniola honour hundred important inca Indians inhabitants island Jamaica king labour land liberty Lord Cornwallis lumbus ment Mexican empire Mexicans Mexico monarch Montezuma nations natives nature negroes neral New-York North officers persons Peru Peruvians Pizarro Port-Royal Portuguese possession prisoners provinces Quito received repartimientos river sail savage sent settlement ships slaves soil soldiers soon South sovereign Spain Spaniards Spanish spirit subjects subsistence success sugar thousand tion took town trade tribes troops vigour voyage West-Indies World XXIV
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الصفحة 257 - For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies...
الصفحة 247 - As to pay, Sir, I beg leave to assure the Congress, that, as no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment, at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness, I do not wish to make any profit from it. I will keep an exact account of my expenses. Those, I doubt not, they will discharge; and that is all I desire.
الصفحة 284 - Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of action, and bidding an affectionate farewell to this august body, under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life.
الصفحة 246 - We are reduced to the alternative of choosing an unconditional submission to the tyranny of irritated ministers, or resistance by force. The latter is our choice. We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery.
الصفحة 242 - HANCOCK, whose offences are of too flagitious a nature to admit of any other consideration than that of condign punishment.
الصفحة 14 - ... so much unnecessary disquiet, and had so often obstructed the prosecution of his well-concerted plan; and passing, in the warmth of their admiration, from one extreme to another, they now pronounced the man, whom they had so lately reviled and threatened, to be a person inspired by heaven with sagacity and fortitude more than human, in order to accomplish a design so far beyond the ideas and conception of all former ages.
الصفحة 220 - As a remarkable instance of this, I may point out to the public that heroic youth, Colonel Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has hitherto preserved in so signal a manner for some important service to his country.
الصفحة 256 - He has refused, for a long time after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected ; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large, for their exercise ; the State remaining, in the mean time, exposed to all the danger of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
الصفحة 282 - With a heart full of love and gratitude, I now take leave of you ; I most devoutly wish that your latter days may be as prosperous and happy as your former ones have been glorious and honorable.
الصفحة 13 - Deum, as a hymn of thanksgiving to God, and were joined by those of the other ships, with tears of joy, and transports of congratulation. This office of gratitude to Heaven was followed by an act of justice to their commander. They threw themselves at the feet of Columbus, with feelings of self-condemnation, mingled with reverence.