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... arms , appeared strange and surprising . The vast machines in which they had traversed the ocean , that seemed to move upon the waters with wings , and uttered a dreadful sound , resembling thunder accompanied with lightning and smoke ...
... arms , appeared strange and surprising . The vast machines in which they had traversed the ocean , that seemed to move upon the waters with wings , and uttered a dreadful sound , resembling thunder accompanied with lightning and smoke ...
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... arms and utensils , scattered about , left no room to doubt concerning the un- happy fate of the garrison . While the Spaniards were shedding tears over those sad memorials of their fellow - citizens , a brother of the cazique Gua ...
... arms and utensils , scattered about , left no room to doubt concerning the un- happy fate of the garrison . While the Spaniards were shedding tears over those sad memorials of their fellow - citizens , a brother of the cazique Gua ...
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... arm of the sea . Instead of attempting to revenge the death of his countrymen , Columbus traced out the plan of a town , in a large plain near a spacious bay ; and obliging every person to put his hand to a work on which their common ...
... arm of the sea . Instead of attempting to revenge the death of his countrymen , Columbus traced out the plan of a town , in a large plain near a spacious bay ; and obliging every person to put his hand to a work on which their common ...
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... arms , which had hitherto been avoided with the greatest solicitude . The Spaniards were very much reduced , and the whole body which took the field consisted only of 200 foot , 20 horse , and 20 large dogs ; and how strange soever it ...
... arms , which had hitherto been avoided with the greatest solicitude . The Spaniards were very much reduced , and the whole body which took the field consisted only of 200 foot , 20 horse , and 20 large dogs ; and how strange soever it ...
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... of the people under his command deprived Columbus of the glory of planting the first colony on the continent of America . Their insolence and E 2 rapacity rapacity provoked the natives to take arms against them . AMERICA . 39.
... of the people under his command deprived Columbus of the glory of planting the first colony on the continent of America . Their insolence and E 2 rapacity rapacity provoked the natives to take arms against them . AMERICA . 39.
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Almagro America antient appeared appointed arms army arrived Atahualpa attempted Barbadoes Britain British Canada Caribbees carried cazique chief civil climate coast colonies colour Columbus command conduct congress considerable continent Cortes coun crown crown of Castile Cuba cultivation Cuzco death Diego Columbus discovered discovery Dominica dominion earth east endeavoured enemies England English established Europe European expedition favour Ferdinand force French gold governor Grenada Hispaniola honour hundred important inca Indians Indies inhabitants island Jamaica king labour land liberty Lord Cornwallis lumbus ment Mexican empire Mexicans Mexico monarch Montezuma nations natives nature negroes neral North officers persons Peru Peruvians Pizarro Portuguese possession prisoners provinces Quito received river royal 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 vessels vigour voyage West West Indies World XXIV
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 280 - Filling a glass, he turned to them and said, "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.
Seite 255 - 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...
Seite 244 - 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.
Seite 240 - HANCOCK, whose offences are of too flagitious a nature to admit of any other consideration than that of condign punishment.
Seite 12 - As they proceeded, the indications of approaching land seemed to be more certain, and excited hope in proportion. The birds began to appear in flocks, making towards the south-west. Columbus, in imitation of the Portuguese navigators, who had been guided, in several of their discoveries, by the motion of birds...
Seite 282 - 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.
Seite 14 - ... which had created him 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.
Seite 218 - 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.
Seite 256 - In every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms. Our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Seite 254 - 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.