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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... means equally valuable with those smaller ones previously described . The great rivers , no doubt , have verdant and fertile borders , but they soon pass into arid and naked plains , covered in some places with sands like those of ...
... means equally valuable with those smaller ones previously described . The great rivers , no doubt , have verdant and fertile borders , but they soon pass into arid and naked plains , covered in some places with sands like those of ...
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... means in prudence and conduct . He was surprised , wounded , and 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 ...
... means in prudence and conduct . He was surprised , wounded , and 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 ...
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... by seizing five Indian canoes ; but at the end of thirty days , without means of landing or refreshment , they felt severely the scarcity of food and water . They discovered and debarked at a village , SPANISH EXPEDITIONS . 39.
... by seizing five Indian canoes ; but at the end of thirty days , without means of landing or refreshment , they felt severely the scarcity of food and water . They discovered and debarked at a village , SPANISH EXPEDITIONS . 39.
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... means to rescue him . He contrived to persuade the European commander , that , if allowed an interview with his chiefs , he would convince them of his sincerity , and make them embrace his offers . Soto felt all the delicacy of this ...
... means to rescue him . He contrived to persuade the European commander , that , if allowed an interview with his chiefs , he would convince them of his sincerity , and make them embrace his offers . Soto felt all the delicacy of this ...
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... means thinking of retreat , but was busied in eager inquiry after some rich and golden country . Among the captives at Appalachen were two individuals who had travelled far to the north - west . They were shown gold , silver , and ...
... means thinking of retreat , but was busied in eager inquiry after some rich and golden country . Among the captives at Appalachen were two individuals who had travelled far to the north - west . They were shown gold , silver , and ...
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 343 - 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 126 - I thank God there are no free schools, nor printing, and I hope we shall not have 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 367 - 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 306 - I can, at any rate, show that the experiments made with it at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century fully confirm the high encomium bestowed by Dioscorides upon his indicum.
Seite 180 - 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 355 - ... 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 343 - 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 236 - 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 95 - When we came first a Land they made a dolefull noise, laying their faces to the ground, scratching the earth with their nailes. We did thinke that they had beene at their idolatry.