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... spirits good and bad . Every animal , every plant , had its manitou , or incarnate spirit . Religion . Fancy ran riot in superstition . Even the dances prac-
... spirits good and bad . Every animal , every plant , had its manitou , or incarnate spirit . Religion . Fancy ran riot in superstition . Even the dances prac-
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... spirit of hardihood and bravery — so essen . tial an element in nation - building was fostered among the borderers ; and as settlement moved westward slowly , only so fast as the pressure of population on the seaboard impelled it , the ...
... spirit of hardihood and bravery — so essen . tial an element in nation - building was fostered among the borderers ; and as settlement moved westward slowly , only so fast as the pressure of population on the seaboard impelled it , the ...
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... spirit of the old Norse pirates . Grenville therefore sailed around by the Cana- ries , picked up Spanish prizes partly to meet the cost of the undertaking , and in due time anchored at Wocoken , whence he proceeded to Roanoke island ...
... spirit of the old Norse pirates . Grenville therefore sailed around by the Cana- ries , picked up Spanish prizes partly to meet the cost of the undertaking , and in due time anchored at Wocoken , whence he proceeded to Roanoke island ...
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... spirit of ad- venture and wealth - seeking prevailed among the colonists ; it was not a community calculated for the uneventful and toilsome prosecution of agriculture ; and before long the fretful disease of homesickness prevailed on ...
... spirit of ad- venture and wealth - seeking prevailed among the colonists ; it was not a community calculated for the uneventful and toilsome prosecution of agriculture ; and before long the fretful disease of homesickness prevailed on ...
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... spirit of the emigrants , who , instead of looking to the soil English fail- as the chief source of supplies , expected to find rich mines , or tribes possessing gold , and relied upon England for the necessaries of life ; they had not ...
... spirit of the emigrants , who , instead of looking to the soil English fail- as the chief source of supplies , expected to find rich mines , or tribes possessing gold , and relied upon England for the necessaries of life ; they had not ...
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Page 107 - 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"!
Page 118 - In ye name of God, Amen. We whose names are underwriten, the loyall subjects of our dread soveraigne Lord, King James, by ye grace of God, of Great Britaine, Franc, & Ireland king, defender of ye faith, &c., haveing undertaken, for ye glorie of God, and advancemente of ye Christian faith, and honour of our king & countrie...
Page 143 - They who have power to appoint officers and magistrates, it is in their power, also, to set the bounds and limitations of the...
Page 156 - ... the United Colonies of New England. 2. The said United Colonies for themselves and their posterities do jointly and severally hereby enter into a firm and perpetual league of friendship and amity for offence and defence, mutual advice and succor upon all just occasions both for preserving and propagating the truth and liberties of the Gospel and for their own mutual safety and welfare.
Page 71 - Our men were destroyed with cruel diseases, as swellings, flixes, burning fevers, and by wars; and some departed suddenly. But for the most part they died of mere famine. There were never Englishmen left in a foreign country in such misery as we were, in this new discovered Virginia.
Page 147 - We, whose names are underwritten do here solemnly in the presence of Jehovah incorporate ourselves into a Bodie Politick, and as he shall help, will submit our persons, lives and estates, unto our Lord Jesus Christ, the King of Kings, and Lord of Lords, and to all those perfect and most absolute laws of his given us in his holy word of truth, to be guided and judged thereby.
Page 147 - We whose names are hereunder, desirous to inhabit in the town of Providence, do promise to subject ourselves in active or passive obedience to all such orders or agreements as shall be made for public good of the body, in an orderly way, by the major assent of the present inhabitants, masters of families, incorporated together into a town fellowship, and such others whom they shall admit unto them, only in civil things.