An Historical, Geographical, Commercial, and Philosophical View of the United States of America, and of the European Settlements in America and the West-Indies: In Four Volumes, 1. kötetTiebout and O'Brien, 1796 - 493 oldal |
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... river . As men are prone , and at liberty , to mag- nify what is remote or unknown , they represented them as regions of an immenfe extent . Ctefias affirmed that India was as large as all the rest of Afia . Oneficritus , whom Pliny the ...
... river . As men are prone , and at liberty , to mag- nify what is remote or unknown , they represented them as regions of an immenfe extent . Ctefias affirmed that India was as large as all the rest of Afia . Oneficritus , whom Pliny the ...
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... rivers , woods and plains , that he was uncertain whether it might prove an ifland , or part of the continent . The ... river with his fquadron , and all the inha- bitants fled to the mountains as he approached the shore . But as he ...
... rivers , woods and plains , that he was uncertain whether it might prove an ifland , or part of the continent . The ... river with his fquadron , and all the inha- bitants fled to the mountains as he approached the shore . But as he ...
27. oldal
... 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 river , every thing invited me to fettle there . The beauty of ...
... 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 river , every thing invited me to fettle there . The beauty of ...
43. oldal
... not only with humanity , but with indulgence . The district of Cibao anfwered the def- cription given of it by the natives . It was mountainous and uncultivated , but in every river , and brook , F 2 DISCOVERY OF AMERICA . 43.
... not only with humanity , but with indulgence . The district of Cibao anfwered the def- cription given of it by the natives . It was mountainous and uncultivated , but in every river , and brook , F 2 DISCOVERY OF AMERICA . 43.
44. oldal
In Four Volumes William Winterbotham. uncultivated , but in every river , and brook , gold was gathered either in ... rivers , or washed from the mountains by the heavy rains that fall within the tropics . But , from thofe indications ...
In Four Volumes William Winterbotham. uncultivated , but in every river , and brook , gold was gathered either in ... rivers , or washed from the mountains by the heavy rains that fall within the tropics . But , from thofe indications ...
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130. 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 harbour a thought that mine is the joy of fear.
130. 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.
133. oldal - ... spread soft furs for him to rest and sleep on. We demand nothing in return.
130. 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 fully glutted my vengeance.
168. 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...
201. oldal - For if a slave can have a country in this world, it must be any other in preference to that in which he is born to live and labour for another...
204. oldal - ... be capable of holding any office under the United States for which he, or another for his benefit, receives any salary, fees, or emolument of any kind.
131. oldal - The Business of the Women is to take exact notice of what passes, imprint it in their Memories, for they have no Writing, and communicate it to their Children. They are the Records of the Council, and they preserve...
201. 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.
168. oldal - ... to the middle of the river Apalachicola, or Catahouche ; thence along the middle thereof to its junction with the Flint river ; thence straight to the head of St. Mary's river ; and thence down along the middle of St. Mary's river to the Atlantic ocean.