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, 1. kötetOliver & Boyd, 1844 |
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38. oldal
... continued exclusion from their homes , kept up the irritation . They made two successive attacks , and , though easily beaten off , retreated with little loss . Here the Spaniards soon discovered that the brilliant hopes which had lured ...
... continued exclusion from their homes , kept up the irritation . They made two successive attacks , and , though easily beaten off , retreated with little loss . Here the Spaniards soon discovered that the brilliant hopes which had lured ...
50. oldal
... continued , however , to advance , and at length came to the fertile district of Acali , where the troops with satisfaction felt the ground firm beneath their feet . The prince too , after some delay , met them , tendered his submission ...
... continued , however , to advance , and at length came to the fertile district of Acali , where the troops with satisfaction felt the ground firm beneath their feet . The prince too , after some delay , met them , tendered his submission ...
65. oldal
... continued to claim Florida , and even the whole extent of North America ; yet there was not a spot in that vast territory on which one of them dared to set his foot . * * Bancroft , vol . i . p . 67 . VOL . I. D CHAPTER III . French ...
... continued to claim Florida , and even the whole extent of North America ; yet there was not a spot in that vast territory on which one of them dared to set his foot . * * Bancroft , vol . i . p . 67 . VOL . I. D CHAPTER III . French ...
72. oldal
... continued to make incursions to the interior , and entered into various transactions with the natives in the vain hope of arriving at some region rich in gold and silver . Neglecting to estab- lish themselves on the solid basis of ...
... continued to make incursions to the interior , and entered into various transactions with the natives in the vain hope of arriving at some region rich in gold and silver . Neglecting to estab- lish themselves on the solid basis of ...
74. oldal
... continued some time , an order was issued to spare the women and children , and that , while two hundred perished , seventy were saved . Ribault meanwhile , after being driven out to sea , saw his vessels completely wrecked among the ...
... continued some time , an order was issued to spare the women and children , and that , while two hundred perished , seventy were saved . Ribault meanwhile , after being driven out to sea , saw his vessels completely wrecked among the ...
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343. oldal - 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.
82. oldal - 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.
126. oldal - 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...
367. oldal - 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.
306. oldal - 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.
180. oldal - 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.
355. oldal - ... 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.
343. oldal - 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.
236. oldal - 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.
95. oldal - 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.