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... suffered no great loss of men . The wretched Indians were the victims of their own ill - concerted policy : they soon felt the utmost distresses of famine . This brought on contagious diseases ; and in the course of a few months more ...
... suffered no great loss of men . The wretched Indians were the victims of their own ill - concerted policy : they soon felt the utmost distresses of famine . This brought on contagious diseases ; and in the course of a few months more ...
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... suffer- ings . The impossibility of carrying on any improve- ment in America , unless the Spanish planters could command the labour of the natives , was an insupe- rable objection to his plan of treating them as free subjects . In order ...
... suffer- ings . The impossibility of carrying on any improve- ment in America , unless the Spanish planters could command the labour of the natives , was an insupe- rable objection to his plan of treating them as free subjects . In order ...
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... suffered exquisite distress for want of water some of them sunk under these calamities , and died by the way . Cordova , their commander , expired soon after they landed at Cuba . Notwithstanding the disastrous conclusion of this ...
... suffered exquisite distress for want of water some of them sunk under these calamities , and died by the way . Cordova , their commander , expired soon after they landed at Cuba . Notwithstanding the disastrous conclusion of this ...
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... suffered to corrupt on its surface , re- turned with increase into its bosom . As trees and plants derive a great part of their nourishment from air and water ; if they were not destroyed , they would render to the earth more , perhaps ...
... suffered to corrupt on its surface , re- turned with increase into its bosom . As trees and plants derive a great part of their nourishment from air and water ; if they were not destroyed , they would render to the earth more , perhaps ...
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... suffer ; and his diseases in the savage state , though fewer in number , are , like those of the animals whom he nearly resembles in his mode of life , more violent and more fatal . If luxury engender and nourish distempers of one ...
... suffer ; and his diseases in the savage state , though fewer in number , are , like those of the animals whom he nearly resembles in his mode of life , more violent and more fatal . If luxury engender and nourish distempers of one ...
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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
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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.