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, Band 1J. L. Gihon, 1853 |
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... vessel , Thorwald pursued his course to the west , until he reached a promontory covered with wood , which he thought so beautiful that he determined to make it the cest of his settlement . At this place the Northmen found three canoes ...
... vessel , Thorwald pursued his course to the west , until he reached a promontory covered with wood , which he thought so beautiful that he determined to make it the cest of his settlement . At this place the Northmen found three canoes ...
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... vessels , on board of which he was accompanied by his wife Gudrida and his friend Snorre . One of the other ships was commanded by Biarne Grimolfson , of Breidefiord , and Thorhall Gamlason , of Austfiord , in Iceland . The third ...
... vessels , on board of which he was accompanied by his wife Gudrida and his friend Snorre . One of the other ships was commanded by Biarne Grimolfson , of Breidefiord , and Thorhall Gamlason , of Austfiord , in Iceland . The third ...
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... vessel , secretly , in order to attempt the proposed discovery , by following exactly the course which Columbus had pointed out . OHN , forgetting on this occasion the sen- timents becoming a monarch , meanly adopted their perfidious ...
... vessel , secretly , in order to attempt the proposed discovery , by following exactly the course which Columbus had pointed out . OHN , forgetting on this occasion the sen- timents becoming a monarch , meanly adopted their perfidious ...
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... vessels was fitted out , victualled for 12 months , and furnished with 90 men . The whole expense did not exceed £ 4000 . Of this small squadron Columbus was appointed admiral . On the 3d of August , 1492 , Columbus left Spain in the ...
... vessels was fitted out , victualled for 12 months , and furnished with 90 men . The whole expense did not exceed £ 4000 . Of this small squadron Columbus was appointed admiral . On the 3d of August , 1492 , Columbus left Spain in the ...
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... vessels in their voyages to the new world , which soon received his name . This honour certainly belonged to Columbus rather than to Amerigo , for the prior discovery of the continent by the former is not to be questioned . We have a ...
... vessels in their voyages to the new world , which soon received his name . This honour certainly belonged to Columbus rather than to Amerigo , for the prior discovery of the continent by the former is not to be questioned . We have a ...
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Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 653 - They planted by your care! No! your oppressions planted them in America. — They fled from your tyranny to a then uncultivated and...
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.