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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35. oldal
... desire naturally arose to effect a similar achievement elsewhere . Florida was as extensive ; and no reason was yet known why it should not be equally rich . Pamphilo de Narvaez , the unfor- tunate rival of Cortez , first sought it as a ...
... desire naturally arose to effect a similar achievement elsewhere . Florida was as extensive ; and no reason was yet known why it should not be equally rich . Pamphilo de Narvaez , the unfor- tunate rival of Cortez , first sought it as a ...
37. oldal
... desire . Fifteen days were passed without seeing a habitation ; and their small stock of biscuit and pork being quickly consumed , they could subsist only on the fruit of wild palm - trees . Oppressed by toil and exhaustion , they had ...
... desire . Fifteen days were passed without seeing a habitation ; and their small stock of biscuit and pork being quickly consumed , they could subsist only on the fruit of wild palm - trees . Oppressed by toil and exhaustion , they had ...
52. oldal
... desire of vengeance was again inspired . This feeling was fully shared by Vitachuco , to whom it appeared , that if each Indian should kill his master , their oppressors might be at once extirpated . The natives , though disarmed ...
... desire of vengeance was again inspired . This feeling was fully shared by Vitachuco , to whom it appeared , that if each Indian should kill his master , their oppressors might be at once extirpated . The natives , though disarmed ...
71. oldal
... desire to return to their native country ; and , having no ship , they , like the companions of Narvaez and Moscoso , re- solved to build one for themselves . The country afforded somewhat better materials , and they constructed a brig ...
... desire to return to their native country ; and , having no ship , they , like the companions of Narvaez and Moscoso , re- solved to build one for themselves . The country afforded somewhat better materials , and they constructed a brig ...
72. oldal
... desire of returning home , and shrunk not from the laborious task of constructing vessels for that purpose . Amid their painful labour , they were cheered by a visit from Sir John Hawkins , who gave them a liberal supply of provisions ...
... desire of returning home , and shrunk not from the laborious task of constructing vessels for that purpose . Amid their painful labour , they were cheered by a visit from Sir John Hawkins , who gave them a liberal supply of provisions ...
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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.