Our Country: A Household History for All Readers, from the Discovery of America to the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, Volumen1Johnson Wilson & Company, 1875 - 1866 páginas |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 74
Página 4
... passed the winter there , occupying the huts built by Lief and his companions , and subsisting as they had done , upon fish . In the spring , Thorwald and a part of his company explored the neighboring coasts , finding many sandy ...
... passed the winter there , occupying the huts built by Lief and his companions , and subsisting as they had done , upon fish . In the spring , Thorwald and a part of his company explored the neighboring coasts , finding many sandy ...
Página 5
... passed the winter . Upon the shore , with the little Nor- wegian vessel anchored near , that company of sturdy emigrants pre- sented a picturesque group . Thor- fin , stout , but not very tall , was clad , on that occasion , we may ...
... passed the winter . Upon the shore , with the little Nor- wegian vessel anchored near , that company of sturdy emigrants pre- sented a picturesque group . Thor- fin , stout , but not very tall , was clad , on that occasion , we may ...
Página 11
... passed away Built them ; a disciplined and populous race Heaped with long toil the earth , while yet the Greek Was hewing the Pentelicus to forms Of symmetry , and rearing on its rock The glittering Parthenon . " CHAPTER II . INDIAN ...
... passed away Built them ; a disciplined and populous race Heaped with long toil the earth , while yet the Greek Was hewing the Pentelicus to forms Of symmetry , and rearing on its rock The glittering Parthenon . " CHAPTER II . INDIAN ...
Página 34
... passed around the Cape of Good Hope ( which he so named ) , with an Arabian chart directing his course , and cross- ing the Indian Ocean landed in India at Calcutta . Africa was circumnavi- gated , and a new way was opened to India by ...
... passed around the Cape of Good Hope ( which he so named ) , with an Arabian chart directing his course , and cross- ing the Indian Ocean landed in India at Calcutta . Africa was circumnavi- gated , and a new way was opened to India by ...
Página 41
... passed away before he was again summoned to confer with scientific men at Seville . The war was then at its height . The clangor of arms disturbed every peaceful occupation , and the conference was not held . Another year passed away ...
... passed away before he was again summoned to confer with scientific men at Seville . The war was then at its height . The clangor of arms disturbed every peaceful occupation , and the conference was not held . Another year passed away ...
Contenido
1 | |
9 | |
21 | |
28 | |
37 | |
45 | |
55 | |
61 | |
298 | |
301 | |
310 | |
316 | |
325 | |
334 | |
340 | |
352 | |
74 | |
80 | |
87 | |
102 | |
104 | |
116 | |
125 | |
131 | |
136 | |
147 | |
155 | |
168 | |
171 | |
181 | |
188 | |
195 | |
205 | |
210 | |
216 | |
222 | |
224 | |
239 | |
252 | |
263 | |
274 | |
280 | |
285 | |
291 | |
357 | |
364 | |
370 | |
377 | |
383 | |
392 | |
407 | |
420 | |
423 | |
432 | |
441 | |
448 | |
454 | |
462 | |
468 | |
476 | |
483 | |
495 | |
504 | |
522 | |
532 | |
540 | |
545 | |
559 | |
571 | |
584 | |
596 | |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Términos y frases comunes
afterward America Amsterdam appointed arms army arrived Assembly beautiful Boston British cacique Cape Captain Carolina CHAP Charles charter chief Christian church civil coast Colonel colonists colony Columbus command Company Connecticut council court crown Delaware discovery domain Dutch emigrants England English expedition father followed forests Fort Edward France French French and Indians friends garrison gave governor Holland honor Hudson Huguenots hundred inhabitants Iroquois Confederacy Island Jamestown king Lake Lake George land Lawrence letter Lord Lord Baltimore magistrates Maryland Massachusetts monarch Narragansets nation natives navigator Netherland North Oglethorpe Opechancanough planted Plymouth Plymouth Company prisoners proprietors province Puritans Quebec queen region returned Rhode Island River royal sachem sailed savages sent settlement settlers ships shores soldiers soon Soto South South Carolina Spain Spaniards Spanish States-General Stuyvesant territory thousand treaty tribes troops vessels Virginia voyage warriors West William women York young
Pasajes populares
Página 360 - Esq., or in his absence, to such as for the time being, take care for preserving the peace and administering the laws, in their majesties' province of New- York, in America.
Página 206 - Having undertaken, for the Glory of God and advancement of the Christian Faith and Honour of our King and Country, a Voyage to plant the First Colony in the Northern Parts of Virginia...
Página 145 - We found the people most gentle, loving, and faithful, void of all guile and treason and such as lived after the manner of the Golden Age.
Página 280 - on the broad pathway of good faith and good will ; no advantage shall be taken on either side, but all shall be openness and love. I will not call you children, for parents sometimes chide their children too severely ; nor brothers only, for brothers differ. The friendship between me and you I will not compare to a chain, for that the rains might rust, or the falling tree might break. We are the same as if one man's body were to be divided into two parts; we are all one flesh and blood.
Página 330 - He was exactly five feet six inches in height, and six feet five inches in circumference. His head was a perfect sphere, and of such stupendous dimensions, that dame Nature, with all her sex's ingenuity, would have been puzzled to construct a neck capable of supporting it; wherefore she wisely declined the attempt, and settled it firmly on the top of his back bone, just between the shoulders.
Página 10 - ... we know not when or how these Indians first became inhabitants of this mighty continent, yet we may guess that probably the Devil decoyed those miserable salvages hither, in hopes that the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ would never come here to destroy or disturb his absolute empire over them.
Página 459 - My soul prays to God for thee, that thou mayest stand in the day of trial, that thy children may be blessed of the Lord, and thy people saved by His power.
Página 263 - We, whose names are underwritten do here solemnly in the presence of Jehovah incorporate ourselves into a Bodie Politick, and as he shall help, will submit our persons, lives and estates, unto our Lord Jesus Christ, the King of Kings, and Lord of Lords, and to all those perfect and most absolute laws of his given us in his holy word of truth, to be guided and judged thereby.
Página 260 - We, whose names are here underwritten, being desirous to inhabit in the town of Providence, do promise to submit ourselves in active or passive obedience to all such orders or agreements as shall be made for public good of the body. in an orderly way, by the major consent of the present inhabitants, masters of families, incorporated together into a township, and such others whom they shall admit into the same only in civil things.
Página 315 - I thank God, there are no free schools, nor printing in Virginia, and I hope we shall not have them these hundred years; for learning has brought disobedience and heresy and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both.