An Historical, Geographical, Commercial, and Philosophical View of the United States of America, and of the European Settlements in America and the West-Indies: In Four Volumes, Band 1Tiebout and O'Brien, 1796 - 493 Seiten |
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... particular , as the dif- covery of the new world , and the paffage to India by the Cape of Good Hope : it at once gave rise to a revolution in the com- merce and in the power of nations , as well as in the manners industry and ...
... particular , as the dif- covery of the new world , and the paffage to India by the Cape of Good Hope : it at once gave rise to a revolution in the com- merce and in the power of nations , as well as in the manners industry and ...
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... particular , being thus drawn to the new world , the Editor , at the request of fome particular friends , undertook the task , which he hopes he has in fome degree accomplished in the following vo- lumes , of affording his countrymen an ...
... particular , being thus drawn to the new world , the Editor , at the request of fome particular friends , undertook the task , which he hopes he has in fome degree accomplished in the following vo- lumes , of affording his countrymen an ...
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... particular explanation of his fyftem , as might draw from him a full difcovery of its nature , they deferred paffing a final judgment with respect to it . In the mean time , they confpired to rob him of the honour and advantages which ...
... particular explanation of his fyftem , as might draw from him a full difcovery of its nature , they deferred paffing a final judgment with respect to it . In the mean time , they confpired to rob him of the honour and advantages which ...
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... particular difcuffion , many rejected the scheme in general , upon the credit of a maxim , under which the ignorant and unenterprifing fhelter themselves in every age , " That it is prefumptuous in any perfon , to fuppofe that he alone ...
... particular difcuffion , many rejected the scheme in general , upon the credit of a maxim , under which the ignorant and unenterprifing fhelter themselves in every age , " That it is prefumptuous in any perfon , to fuppofe that he alone ...
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... particular detail of what had happened after his departure from the island . The familiar intercourfe of the Indians with the Spaniards tended gradually to diminish the fuperftitious veneration with which their first appearance had ...
... particular detail of what had happened after his departure from the island . The familiar intercourfe of the Indians with the Spaniards tended gradually to diminish the fuperftitious veneration with which their first appearance had ...
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Seite 130 - There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it: I have killed many: I have fully glutted my vengeance: for my country I rejoice at the beams of peace. But do not harbour a thought that mine is the joy of fear.
Seite 130 - I appeal to any white man to say, if ever he entered Logan's cabin hungry, and he gave him not meat; if ever he came cold and naked, and he clothed him not. During the course of the last long and bloody war, Logan remained idle in his cabin, an advocate for peace. Such was my love for the whites, that my countrymen pointed as they passed, and said, 'Logan is the friend of white men.
Seite 133 - ... spread soft furs for him to rest and sleep on. We demand nothing in return.
Seite 130 - Logan ; not even sparing my women and children. "There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it. I have killed many. I have fully glutted my vengeance.
Seite 168 - East by a line to be drawn along the middle of the river St. Croix, from its mouth in the bay of Fundy to its source, and from its source directly north to the aforesaid highlands which divide the rivers that fall into the Atlantic ocean from those which fall into the river St. Lawrence...
Seite 201 - For if a slave can have a country in this world, it must be any other in preference to that in which he is born to live and labour for another...
Seite 204 - ... be capable of holding any office under the United States for which he, or another for his benefit, receives any salary, fees, or emolument of any kind.
Seite 131 - The Business of the Women is to take exact notice of what passes, imprint it in their Memories, for they have no Writing, and communicate it to their Children. They are the Records of the Council, and they preserve...
Seite 201 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it ; for man is an imitative animal. This quality is the germ of all education in him. From his cradle to his grave he is learning to do what he sees others do.
Seite 168 - ... to the middle of the river Apalachicola, or Catahouche ; thence along the middle thereof to its junction with the Flint river ; thence straight to the head of St. Mary's river ; and thence down along the middle of St. Mary's river to the Atlantic ocean.