An Historical, Geographical, Commercial, and Philosophical View of the American United States, and of the European Settlements in America and the West-Indies, Band 1editor; J. Ridgeway, 1795 - 485 Seiten |
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... most valued in those regions . The defcription which she gave to her countrymen of the humanity and wonderful qualities of the ftrangers ; their admiration of the trinkets , which she shewed with exultation ; and their eagerness to ...
... most valued in those regions . The defcription which she gave to her countrymen of the humanity and wonderful qualities of the ftrangers ; their admiration of the trinkets , which she shewed with exultation ; and their eagerness to ...
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... most impenetrable woods . Guacanahari , while speaking of those dreadful invaders , discovered fuch fymptoms of terror , as well as fuch consciousness of the inability of his own people to refift them , as led Columbus to conclude that ...
... most impenetrable woods . Guacanahari , while speaking of those dreadful invaders , discovered fuch fymptoms of terror , as well as fuch consciousness of the inability of his own people to refift them , as led Columbus to conclude that ...
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... most advantageous light . Having thus taken every precaution for the fecurity of the Colony , he left Navidad on the fourth of January , one thoufand four hundred and ninety - three , and fteering towards the eaft , difcovered , and ...
... most advantageous light . Having thus taken every precaution for the fecurity of the Colony , he left Navidad on the fourth of January , one thoufand four hundred and ninety - three , and fteering towards the eaft , difcovered , and ...
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... most terrible forms , is before it , Columbus had to endure feelings of diftrefs peculiar to himself . He dreaded that all knowledge of the amazing difcoveries which he had made was now to perish ; mankind were to be deprived of every ...
... most terrible forms , is before it , Columbus had to endure feelings of diftrefs peculiar to himself . He dreaded that all knowledge of the amazing difcoveries which he had made was now to perish ; mankind were to be deprived of every ...
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... most intolerable of all evils , to men accustomed to pafs their days in a care- lefs , improvident indolence . They were incapable of fuch a regular and perfevering exertion of industry , and felt it fuch a grievous re- ftraint upon ...
... most intolerable of all evils , to men accustomed to pafs their days in a care- lefs , improvident indolence . They were incapable of fuch a regular and perfevering exertion of industry , and felt it fuch a grievous re- ftraint upon ...
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Seite 208 - For the more convenient management of the general interests of the United States, delegates shall be annually appointed in such manner as the legislature of each State shall direct, to meet in Congress on the first Monday in November, in every year, with a power reserved to each State, to recall its delegates, or any of them, at any time within the year, and to send others in their stead, for the remainder of the year.
Seite 132 - 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 harbor a thought that mine is the joy of fear.
Seite 132 - 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 174 - Lawrence ; comprehending all islands within twenty leagues of any part of the shores of the United States, and lying between lines to be drawn due east from the points where the aforesaid boundaries between Nova Scotia on the one part and East Florida on the other, shall respectively touch the Bay of Fundy and the Atlantic Ocean ; excepting such islands as now are, or heretofore have been, within the limits of the said province of Nova Scotia.
Seite 132 - 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 206 - And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God ? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath ? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just ; that his justice cannot sleep forever...
Seite 460 - That the respective colonies are entitled to the common law of England, and more especially to the great and inestimable privilege of being tried by their peers of the vicinage, according to the course of that law.
Seite 205 - 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 425 - And now will these Americans, children planted by our care, nourished up by our indulgence until they are grown to a degree of strength and opulence, and protected by our arms, will they grudge to contribute their mite to relieve us from the heavy weight of that burden which we lie under ?" Colonel Barre arose, and, echoing Townshend's words, thus commented :
Seite 219 - The friends of our country have long seen and desired that the power of making war, peace, and treaties, that of levying money and regulating commerce, and the correspondent executive and judicial authorities, should be fully and effectually vested in the General Government of the Union...