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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... sent back the bill with his objections , and it failed to become a law ; else the mischiefs and disasters of the days of Continental money might have returned upon us , with a violence proportioned to the growth which our com- mercial ...
... sent back the bill with his objections , and it failed to become a law ; else the mischiefs and disasters of the days of Continental money might have returned upon us , with a violence proportioned to the growth which our com- mercial ...
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... sent out as scouts two Scotch slaves , who were very swift of foot , and who had been given , years before , to Leif the Lucky by the King of Norway , as one of the inducements to persuade him to become a Christian . The historians are ...
... sent out as scouts two Scotch slaves , who were very swift of foot , and who had been given , years before , to Leif the Lucky by the King of Norway , as one of the inducements to persuade him to become a Christian . The historians are ...
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... sent as chaplain of an expedition from Virginia to Port Royal , South Carolina , where he remained eight months . Suffering much from want of food , he and five others at the end of that time started to return to Virginia by land . On ...
... sent as chaplain of an expedition from Virginia to Port Royal , South Carolina , where he remained eight months . Suffering much from want of food , he and five others at the end of that time started to return to Virginia by land . On ...
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... sent to Venice for his brother Antonio , who soon joined him to share in his prosperity , leaving behind , at home , the third brother , Carlo , to whom all the subsequent letters were written . The name of the king whom the two ...
... sent to Venice for his brother Antonio , who soon joined him to share in his prosperity , leaving behind , at home , the third brother , Carlo , to whom all the subsequent letters were written . The name of the king whom the two ...
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... sent to Iceland from Hamburg in 1563 , tells much the same story , which he learned from a monk who entered this monastery of St. Thomas in 1546. Blefkins , whose tract is in Purchas , vol . iii . , says : " This Monke told us ...
... sent to Iceland from Hamburg in 1563 , tells much the same story , which he learned from a monk who entered this monastery of St. Thomas in 1546. Blefkins , whose tract is in Purchas , vol . iii . , says : " This Monke told us ...
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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.