An Historical, Geographical, Commercial, and Philosophical View of the United States of America, and of the European Settlements in America and the West-Indies: In Four Volumes, Том 1Tiebout and O'Brien, 1796 - 493 страници |
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... enemy's fhips , to which it was faft grappled . In this dreadful extremity his intrepidity and prefence of mind did not forfake him . He threw himfelf into the fea , laid hold of a floating oar , and by the fupport of it , and his ...
... enemy's fhips , to which it was faft grappled . In this dreadful extremity his intrepidity and prefence of mind did not forfake him . He threw himfelf into the fea , laid hold of a floating oar , and by the fupport of it , and his ...
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... enemies ; he engaged to take him and his people under the protection of the powerful monarch whom he served , and offered to leave in the island fuch a number of his men as fhould be fufficient , not only to defend the inhabitants from ...
... enemies ; he engaged to take him and his people under the protection of the powerful monarch whom he served , and offered to leave in the island fuch a number of his men as fhould be fufficient , not only to defend the inhabitants from ...
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... enemies . These After giving fuch impreffions both of the beneficence and pow- er of the Spaniards , as might have rendered it easy to preferve an afcendant over the minds of the natives , Columbus appointed thirty- eight of his people ...
... enemies . These After giving fuch impreffions both of the beneficence and pow- er of the Spaniards , as might have rendered it easy to preferve an afcendant over the minds of the natives , Columbus appointed thirty- eight of his people ...
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... enemies taken in war . But as Columbus was eager to know the state of the colony ' which he had planted , and to fupply it with the neceffaries of which he fuppofed it to be in want , he made no ftay in any of those lands , and ...
... enemies taken in war . But as Columbus was eager to know the state of the colony ' which he had planted , and to fupply it with the neceffaries of which he fuppofed it to be in want , he made no ftay in any of those lands , and ...
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... enemies . Columbus faw that there was but one method of fupporting his own credit , and of filencing all his adverfaries . He must produce fuch a quantity of gold as would not only justify what he had reported with refpect to the ...
... enemies . Columbus faw that there was but one method of fupporting his own credit , and of filencing all his adverfaries . He must produce fuch a quantity of gold as would not only justify what he had reported with refpect to the ...
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Страница 130 - 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 harbour a thought that mine is the joy of fear.
Страница 130 - 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.
Страница 133 - ... spread soft furs for him to rest and sleep on. We demand nothing in return.
Страница 130 - 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.
Страница 168 - East by a line to be drawn along the middle of the river St. Croix, from its mouth in the bay of Fundy to its source, and from its source directly north to the aforesaid highlands which divide the rivers that fall into the Atlantic ocean from those which fall into the river St. Lawrence...
Страница 201 - 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...
Страница 204 - ... be capable of holding any office under the United States for which he, or another for his benefit, receives any salary, fees, or emolument of any kind.
Страница 131 - The Business of the Women is to take exact notice of what passes, imprint it in their Memories, for they have no Writing, and communicate it to their Children. They are the Records of the Council, and they preserve...
Страница 201 - 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. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it ; for man is an imitative animal. This quality is the germ of all education in him. From his cradle to his grave he is learning to do what he sees others do.
Страница 168 - ... to the middle of the river Apalachicola, or Catahouche ; thence along the middle thereof to its junction with the Flint river ; thence straight to the head of St. Mary's river ; and thence down along the middle of St. Mary's river to the Atlantic ocean.