A Popular History of the United States: From the First Discovery of the Western Hemisphere by the Northmen, to the End of the Civil War. Preceded by a Sketch of the Prehistoric Period and the Age of the Mound Builders, Volume 1C. Scribner's sons, 1883 - United States |
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... narratives which aim at setting forth , with the greatest breadth and variety of circumstance , the annals of our nation's ... narrative of events and its repre- sentation of the state of our country at different epochs , has derived its ...
... narratives which aim at setting forth , with the greatest breadth and variety of circumstance , the annals of our nation's ... narrative of events and its repre- sentation of the state of our country at different epochs , has derived its ...
Page ix
... narrative could not be given with the necessary degree of impartiality , on account of controversies not yet ended , and prejudices which have not had time to subside . But in the case of American slavery the difficulty of speaking ...
... narrative could not be given with the necessary degree of impartiality , on account of controversies not yet ended , and prejudices which have not had time to subside . But in the case of American slavery the difficulty of speaking ...
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... narrative before reaching the catastrophe , would have been like rising from the spectacle of a drama at the end of the fourth act . Few episodes in the world's history have been so complete in themselves as this of American slavery ...
... narrative before reaching the catastrophe , would have been like rising from the spectacle of a drama at the end of the fourth act . Few episodes in the world's history have been so complete in themselves as this of American slavery ...
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... narrative of these iniquities could not properly stop short of the punishment which overtook the offenders , and which , while it makes the lesson of their otherwise worthless lives instructive , vindicates to some extent the character ...
... narrative of these iniquities could not properly stop short of the punishment which overtook the offenders , and which , while it makes the lesson of their otherwise worthless lives instructive , vindicates to some extent the character ...
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... narrative . In writing the history of the only great nation on the globe , the beginnings of which are fully recorded in contempo- rary writings , and for which we are not compelled , as in other cases , to grope in the darkness of ...
... narrative . In writing the history of the only great nation on the globe , the beginnings of which are fully recorded in contempo- rary writings , and for which we are not compelled , as in other cases , to grope in the darkness of ...
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Page 528 - ... we desire you would be pleased to take notice of the principals and body of our Company, as those who esteem it our honor to call the Church of England, from whence we rise, our dear mother; and cannot part from our native Country, where she specially resideth, without much sadness of heart and many tears in our eyes, ever acknowledging that such hope and part as we have obtained in the common salvation .we have received in her bosom, and sucked it from her breasts.
Page 528 - ... but, blessing God for the parentage and education, as members of the same body, shall always rejoice in her good, and unfeignedly grieve for any sorrow that shall ever betide her, and while we have breath, sincerely desire and endeavour the continuance and abundance of her welfare, with the enlargement of her bounds in the Kingdom of Christ Jesus.
Page 213 - Mississippi to the sea, and took formal possession of the country in the name of the King of France, in honor of whom he called it Louisiana.
Page 130 - East where spices growe, by a way that was never knowen before, by this fame and report there increased in my heart a great flame of desire to attempt some notable thing.
Page 396 - From lightning and tempest ; from plague, pestilence, and famine ; from battle and murder, and from sudden death, Good Lord, deliver us.
Page 544 - Whereas, Mr. Roger Williams, one of the elders of the church of Salem, hath broached and divulged divers new and dangerous opinions, against the authority of magistrates; as also writ letters of defamation, both of the magistrates and churches...
Page 388 - Virginia, doe by these presents solemnly & mutualy in ye presence of God, and one of another, covenant & combine our selves togeather into a civill body politick, for our better ordering & preservation & furtherance of ye ends aforesaid ; and by vertue hearof to enacte, constitute, and frame such just & equall lawes, ordinances, acts, constitutions, & offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meete & convenient for ye generall good of ye Colonie, unto which we promise all due submission...
Page 247 - Here die I, Richard Grenville, with a joyful and quiet mind, for that I have ended my life as a true soldier ought to do, that hath fought for his country, queen, religion, and honour...
Page 386 - So they left that goodly and pleasant city which had been their resting-place near twelve years ; but they knew they were pilgrims and looked not much on those things, but lift up their eyes to the heavens, their dearest country, and quieted their spirits.
Page 316 - A strange fish! Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver. There would this monster make a man. Any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.