A Larger History of the United States of America, to the Close of President Jackson's AdministrationHarper & Brothers, 1886 - 470 страници |
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... turned out like some freaky confectioner's device made of opaque , light brown cough candy . " At intervals upon these terraces , or on the ground near the base of the walls , there stand low oval mounds of the same baked drab mud ...
... turned out like some freaky confectioner's device made of opaque , light brown cough candy . " At intervals upon these terraces , or on the ground near the base of the walls , there stand low oval mounds of the same baked drab mud ...
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... turned about , and leaving this land to larboard , " let the foot of the sail look towards land , " that is , sailed away from land . He came to another land , flat and still wooded . Then he sailed seaward with a south - west wind for ...
... turned about , and leaving this land to larboard , " let the foot of the sail look towards land , " that is , sailed away from land . He came to another land , flat and still wooded . Then he sailed seaward with a south - west wind for ...
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... turned out to be no memorials at all . The great volume of " Antiquitates Americana " contains no less than twelve separate engravings of the Dighton Rock , some of them so unlike one another that it seems impossible that they can have ...
... turned out to be no memorials at all . The great volume of " Antiquitates Americana " contains no less than twelve separate engravings of the Dighton Rock , some of them so unlike one another that it seems impossible that they can have ...
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... turned out that " elf " and " goblin " were much the older words ! There are scarcely two interpreters who precisely agree as to the places visited by the Northmen , and those who are surest in their opinions are usually those who live ...
... turned out that " elf " and " goblin " were much the older words ! There are scarcely two interpreters who precisely agree as to the places visited by the Northmen , and those who are surest in their opinions are usually those who live ...
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... turned again for a different object towards the American continent , they remembered his early achievements , and based on them a claim of ownership by right of discovery . Even then they were so little appreciated that Lord Bacon ...
... turned again for a different object towards the American continent , they remembered his early achievements , and based on them a claim of ownership by right of discovery . Even then they were so little appreciated that Lord Bacon ...
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Страница 319 - The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.
Страница 156 - ... covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic, for our better ordering and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the Colony unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.
Страница 296 - Resolved, That a committee be appointed to prepare and digest the form of a confederation to be entered into between these Colonies"; which committee was appointed the next day, June 12, and consisted of a member from each Colony, namely: Mr.
Страница 305 - England, sir, is a nation which still, I hope, respects, and formerly adored her freedom. The colonists emigrated from you when this part of your character was most predominant; and they took this bias and direction the moment they parted from your hands. They are, therefore, not only devoted to liberty, but to liberty according to English ideas and on English principles.
Страница 156 - Virginia, do by these presents solemnly and mutually in the presence of God and one of another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic, for our better ordering and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid...
Страница 155 - Being thus passed the vast ocean, and a sea of troubles before in their preparation (as may be remembered by that which went before), they had now no friends to welcome them nor inns to entertain or refresh their weatherbeaten bodies; no houses or much less towns to repair to, to seek for succour.
Страница 163 - We will not say as the Separatists were wont to say at their leaving of England, Farewell, Babylon! Farewell, Rome ! but we will say, Farewell, dear England ! Farewell the Church of God in England, and all the Christian friends there...
Страница 273 - You will think me transported with enthusiasm, but I am not. I am well aware of the toil, and blood and treasure, that it will cost...
Страница 444 - I am in earnest. I will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch. AND I WILL BE HEARD.
Страница 268 - This committee was appointed on the 1 1th, and consisted of Thomas Jefferson, of Virginia ; John Adams, of Massachusetts ; Benjamin Franklin, of Pennsylvania ; Roger Sherman, of Connecticut ; and Robert R. Livingston, of New York.