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... discovered , and to contemplate the policy and manners of the rude tribes that occupied the parts of it with which the Spaniards were at this time acquainted . CHAP CHAP . III . Condi- View of America when first 66 AMERICA .
... discovered , and to contemplate the policy and manners of the rude tribes that occupied the parts of it with which the Spaniards were at this time acquainted . CHAP CHAP . III . Condi- View of America when first 66 AMERICA .
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... tribe , in bulk , in strength , and in courage . The soil in America must of course be extremely various , but the cold and moisture which prevail there have considerable influence over it . If we wish to rear in America the productions ...
... tribe , in bulk , in strength , and in courage . The soil in America must of course be extremely various , but the cold and moisture which prevail there have considerable influence over it . If we wish to rear in America the productions ...
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... tribes to be the most antient race of people on the earth . There is hardly any nation from the north to the south pole to which some antiquary , in the extravagance of conjecture , has not ascribed the honour of peopling America ...
... tribes to be the most antient race of people on the earth . There is hardly any nation from the north to the south pole to which some antiquary , in the extravagance of conjecture , has not ascribed the honour of peopling America ...
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... tribe has something peculiar which distinguishes it , but in all of them we discern certain features common to the whole race ; they have some resemblance to the rude tribes scattered over the north - east of Asia , but ⚫ scarcely any ...
... tribe has something peculiar which distinguishes it , but in all of them we discern certain features common to the whole race ; they have some resemblance to the rude tribes scattered over the north - east of Asia , but ⚫ scarcely any ...
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... tribes which oc cupied every other part of America , to whom may be applied the denomination of savage . To con- duct this inquiry with greater accuracy , it should be rendered as simple as possible : for this purpose it will be proper ...
... tribes which oc cupied every other part of America , to whom may be applied the denomination of savage . To con- duct this inquiry with greater accuracy , it should be rendered as simple as possible : for this purpose it will be proper ...
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.