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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... received any part of its first inhabitants from Europe prior to the 15th century . The Welsh fondly imagine , that their country contributed , in 1170 , to people the New World , by the adventure of Madoc , son of Owen Gwynedd , who ...
... received any part of its first inhabitants from Europe prior to the 15th century . The Welsh fondly imagine , that their country contributed , in 1170 , to people the New World , by the adventure of Madoc , son of Owen Gwynedd , who ...
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... , were the most accurate that the people of had received at that period , with respect to the remote the Eaft , Columbus drew a juft conclufion . He co ) TAT that , in proportion as the continent of India ftretched DISCOVERY OF AMERICA . 7.
... , were the most accurate that the people of had received at that period , with respect to the remote the Eaft , Columbus drew a juft conclufion . He co ) TAT that , in proportion as the continent of India ftretched DISCOVERY OF AMERICA . 7.
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... received , that , inftead of relinquishing his undertaking , he pursued it with fresh ardour . He made his next overture to John II . king of Portugal , in whose dominions he had been long established , and whom he confidered , on that ...
... received , that , inftead of relinquishing his undertaking , he pursued it with fresh ardour . He made his next overture to John II . king of Portugal , in whose dominions he had been long established , and whom he confidered , on that ...
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... received no accounts from his brother , whom he had fent to the court of England . In his voyage to that country , Bartho- lomew had been fo unfortunate as to fall into the hands of pirates , who having tripped him of every thing ...
... received no accounts from his brother , whom he had fent to the court of England . In his voyage to that country , Bartho- lomew had been fo unfortunate as to fall into the hands of pirates , who having tripped him of every thing ...
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... received Columbus's overtures , with more appro- bation , than any monarch to whom they had hitherto been prefented . Meanwhile , Columbus being unacquainted with his brother's fate , and having now no profpect of encouragement in Spain ...
... received Columbus's overtures , with more appro- bation , than any monarch to whom they had hitherto been prefented . Meanwhile , Columbus being unacquainted with his brother's fate , and having now no profpect of encouragement in Spain ...
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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.