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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20. oldal
... opposite boundary of this range , extend in a line similarly continuous , yet not exactly parallel . Their direction , instead of south- south - west , is almost due south - west . Hence , while , at the northern point , they present ...
... opposite boundary of this range , extend in a line similarly continuous , yet not exactly parallel . Their direction , instead of south- south - west , is almost due south - west . Hence , while , at the northern point , they present ...
45. oldal
... opposite ; the one came from the setting , the other from the rising sun ; the one were armed , clothed , and mounted , the other naked and on foot ; the one healed the sick , the other killed the healthy . Alvaro was conducted to Diego ...
... opposite ; the one came from the setting , the other from the rising sun ; the one were armed , clothed , and mounted , the other naked and on foot ; the one healed the sick , the other killed the healthy . Alvaro was conducted to Diego ...
50. oldal
... opposite course , employing those stratagems in which the fiercest savages have never been wanting . He went courteously to meet the Spanish general , apologized for his former conduct as prompted Called Napetuca by the Portuguese . by ...
... opposite course , employing those stratagems in which the fiercest savages have never been wanting . He went courteously to meet the Spanish general , apologized for his former conduct as prompted Called Napetuca by the Portuguese . by ...
55. oldal
... opposite direction , as the depository of metallic wealth . The chief then gave them a large body of his subjects to carry their baggage , and forthwith took leave . They passed with some difficulty the Ogeechee , a large and broad ...
... opposite direction , as the depository of metallic wealth . The chief then gave them a large body of his subjects to carry their baggage , and forthwith took leave . They passed with some difficulty the Ogeechee , a large and broad ...
56. oldal
... opposite bank , and moreover that the female sovereign who then ruled it , was prepared to welcome them . Erelong an ornamented barge was seen moving from the other side , containing a person of rank , who proved to be the princess ...
... opposite bank , and moreover that the female sovereign who then ruled it , was prepared to welcome them . Erelong an ornamented barge was seen moving from the other side , containing a person of rank , who proved to be the princess ...
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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.