A Complete History of the United States of America: Embracing the Whole Period from the Discovery of North America, Down to the Year 1820 ...The author, 1821 |
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... settlement of this colony down to the year 1621 , had cost the compa- ny more than 150,000l . sterling ; besides the expences of private adventurers ; and more than 4000 lives had been lost ; but all was now absorded in the prerogative ...
... settlement of this colony down to the year 1621 , had cost the compa- ny more than 150,000l . sterling ; besides the expences of private adventurers ; and more than 4000 lives had been lost ; but all was now absorded in the prerogative ...
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... settle it . A singular an- ecdote that led to this discovery , as related by Dr. Wil- liamson , in his ingenious History of North - Carolina , may not be uninteresting . " Florida , ( says Dr. Williamson , ) was discovered in the year ...
... settle it . A singular an- ecdote that led to this discovery , as related by Dr. Wil- liamson , in his ingenious History of North - Carolina , may not be uninteresting . " Florida , ( says Dr. Williamson , ) was discovered in the year ...
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... settlement , as has already been noticed , which laid the foundation to the claims of Spain . " This anecdote goes to shew , not only the disposition of that age to ascribe to the new world , every description of the marvellous ; but ...
... settlement , as has already been noticed , which laid the foundation to the claims of Spain . " This anecdote goes to shew , not only the disposition of that age to ascribe to the new world , every description of the marvellous ; but ...
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... settlement , near to the mouth of Pamlico River , and another near the mouth of the Neus , and from thence they directed ... settled down upon Roanoke Island , where they remained remarkably healthy through the season . J In autumn and ...
... settlement , near to the mouth of Pamlico River , and another near the mouth of the Neus , and from thence they directed ... settled down upon Roanoke Island , where they remained remarkably healthy through the season . J In autumn and ...
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... , in his attempts to settle a colony in America , and under the pressure of the Spanish war , he sold out all his claims , with his patent , to Sir Thomas Smith , and his associates , who formed the London 26 HISTORY OF.
... , in his attempts to settle a colony in America , and under the pressure of the Spanish war , he sold out all his claims , with his patent , to Sir Thomas Smith , and his associates , who formed the London 26 HISTORY OF.
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Página 313 - Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people, whose breasts he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue.
Página 71 - I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever; that considering numbers, nature and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation is among possible events; that it may become probable by supernatural interference! The Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in such a contest.
Página 70 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other.
Página 314 - The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government, as sores do to the strength of the human body.
Página 70 - The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to the worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities.
Página 62 - The Treasurer and company of Adventurers and Planters of the City of London for the first colony in Virginia...
Página 427 - That so soon as it pleaseth'God that the abovesaid persons arrive there, a certain quantity of land, or ground plat, shall be laid out, for a large town or city, in the most convenient place, upon the river, for health and navigation; and every purchaser and adventurer shall, by lot, have so much land therein as will answer to the proportion, which he hath bought, or taken up, upon rent...
Página 308 - From the conclusion of this war we shall be going down hill. It will not then be necessary to resort every moment to the people for support. They will be forgotten, therefore, and their rights disregarded. They will forget themselves, but in the sole faculty of making money, and will never think of uniting to effect a due respect for their rights.
Página 409 - Their chief speaker immediately put himself into an attitude of oratory, and, with a pomp suited to what he conceived the elevation of his subject...
Página 81 - But on whatever occasion they may have been made, they are of considerable notoriety among the Indians : for a party passing, about thirty years ago, through the part of the country where this barrow is, went through the woods directly to it, without any instructions or inquiry ; and having staid about it some time, with expressions which were construed to be those of sorrow, they returned to the high road, which they had left about half a dozen miles to pay this visit, and pursued their journey.