An Historical, Topographical, and Statistical View of the United States of America: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time, 1. kötetJ. Ridgway, 1819 |
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... river . As men are prone , and at liberty , to mag- nify what is remote or unknown , they reprefented them as regions of an immenfe extent . Ctefias affirmed that India was as large as all the reft of Afia . Oneficritus , whom Pliny the ...
... river . As men are prone , and at liberty , to mag- nify what is remote or unknown , they reprefented them as regions of an immenfe extent . Ctefias affirmed that India was as large as all the reft of Afia . Oneficritus , whom Pliny the ...
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... rivers , woods , and plains , that he was uncertain whether it might prove an island , or part of the continent . The ... river with his fquadron , and all the inhabitants fled to the mountains as he approached the fhore . But as he ...
... rivers , woods , and plains , that he was uncertain whether it might prove an island , or part of the continent . The ... river with his fquadron , and all the inhabitants fled to the mountains as he approached the fhore . But as he ...
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... river which a galley might eafily enter ; the beauty of it induced me to found , and I found from five to eight fathoms of water . Having proceeded a confiderable way up The beauty of the river , the clear- fandy bottom , the multitude ...
... river which a galley might eafily enter ; the beauty of it induced me to found , and I found from five to eight fathoms of water . Having proceeded a confiderable way up The beauty of the river , the clear- fandy bottom , the multitude ...
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... river Tagus . Upon application to the king of Portugal , on the fourth of March , one thousand four hundred and ninety - three , he was allowed to come up to Lisbon ; and , notwithstanding the envy which it was natural for the ...
... river Tagus . Upon application to the king of Portugal , on the fourth of March , one thousand four hundred and ninety - three , he was allowed to come up to Lisbon ; and , notwithstanding the envy which it was natural for the ...
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... river , and brook , gold was gathered either in duft or in grains , fome of which were of confiderable fize . The Indians had never opened any mines in fearch of gold , To penetrate into the G 2 bowels bowels of the earth , and to ...
... river , and brook , gold was gathered either in duft or in grains , fome of which were of confiderable fize . The Indians had never opened any mines in fearch of gold , To penetrate into the G 2 bowels bowels of the earth , and to ...
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210. oldal - For the more convenient management of the general interests of the United States, delegates shall be annually appointed in such manner as the legislature of each State shall direct, to meet in Congress on the first Monday in November, in every year, with a power reserved to each State, to recall its delegates, or any of them, at any time within the year, and to send others in their stead, for the remainder of the year.
134. oldal - 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 harbor a thought that mine is the joy of fear.
134. oldal - 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...
221. oldal - RESOLVED, That the preceding Constitution be laid before the United States, in Congress assembled, and that it is the opinion of this Convention, that it should afterwards be submitted to a Convention of Delegates, chosen in each State by the people thereof, under the recommendation of its Legislature, for their assent and ratification...
208. oldal - And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God ? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath ? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just ; that his justice cannot sleep forever...
134. oldal - 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.
464. oldal - That the respective colonies are entitled to the common law of England, and more especially to the great and inestimable privilege of being tried by their peers of the vicinage, according to the course of that law.
175. oldal - And that all disputes which might arise in future on the subject of the boundaries of the said United States may be prevented, it is hereby agreed and declared, that the following are and shall be their boundaries...
207. oldal - 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.
176. oldal - 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...