The United States of America: Their History from the Earliest Period; Their Industry, Commerce, Banking Transactions, and National Works; Their Institutions and Character, Political, Social, and Literary: with a Survey of the Territory, and Remarks on the Prospects and Plans of Emigrants, Band 1Oliver & Boyd, 1844 |
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... completely succeeded , and obtained gold , not in the expected abundance , but to a considerable amount ; being accused , however , of those cruelties which were much too familiar to the Spanish adventurers . His claims as governor ...
... completely succeeded , and obtained gold , not in the expected abundance , but to a considerable amount ; being accused , however , of those cruelties which were much too familiar to the Spanish adventurers . His claims as governor ...
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... completely routed , and himself severely wounded by an arrow . As these people were never able afterwards to cope in the field with Spanish troops , this disaster may lead us to suspect that he really had lost his former military talent ...
... completely routed , and himself severely wounded by an arrow . As these people were never able afterwards to cope in the field with Spanish troops , this disaster may lead us to suspect that he really had lost his former military talent ...
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... completely defeated , upon which most of his troops went over to his adversary . He possessed still , however , sufficient influence to obtain the means of trying his fortune on another field . He was invested in Spain with the title of ...
... completely defeated , upon which most of his troops went over to his adversary . He possessed still , however , sufficient influence to obtain the means of trying his fortune on another field . He was invested in Spain with the title of ...
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... completely destroyed one of the vessels , his force was reduced to 400 men and eighty horses . On the 20th February 1528 , with his four remaining ships , he set sail , and after coasting along Cuba , where he suffered severely from a ...
... completely destroyed one of the vessels , his force was reduced to 400 men and eighty horses . On the 20th February 1528 , with his four remaining ships , he set sail , and after coasting along Cuba , where he suffered severely from a ...
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... completely delusive . Three expeditions showed the country beyond to be rugged and marshy , with entangled forests and huge fallen trees encumbering every path . The Indians , though unable to face them in the field , could not be ...
... completely delusive . Three expeditions showed the country beyond to be rugged and marshy , with entangled forests and huge fallen trees encumbering every path . The Indians , though unable to face them in the field , could not be ...
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Seite 126 - I thank God there are no free schools nor printing, 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!
Seite 345 - I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people so dead to all the feelings of liberty, as voluntarily to let themselves be made slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of all the rest.
Seite 82 - 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.
Seite 369 - We shall be forced ultimately to retract; let us retract while we can, not when we must. I say we must necessarily undo these violent oppressive acts: they must be repealed— you will repeal them; I pledge myself for it, that you will in the end repeal them; I stake my reputation on it: I will consent to be taken for an idiot if they are not finally repealed.
Seite 182 - I find them so curiously penned, so full of branches and circumstances, that I think the inquisition of Spain used not so many questions to comprehend and to trap their priests.
Seite 357 - ... will vanquish our foes. Let us consider the issue. Let us look to the end. Let us weigh and consider before we advance to those measures which must bring on the most trying and terrible struggle this country ever saw.
Seite 308 - We may here pause to mention, that at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century, the American coast, and particularly Carolina, was dreadfully infested by piracy.
Seite 345 - In such a cause, your success would be hazardous. America, if she fell, would fall like the strong man; she would embrace the pillars of the state, and pull down the Constitution along with her.
Seite 238 - The old magistrates were reinstated, as a council of safety ; the whole town rose in arms, " with the most unanimous resolution that ever inspired a people ; " and a Declaration, read from the balcony, defended the insurrection as a duty to God and the country.
Seite 378 - Lest some unlucky event should happen, unfavorable to my reputation, I beg it may be remembered by every gentleman in the room, that I this day declare with the utmost sincerity, I do not think myself equal to the command I am honored with.