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, Band 1Tiebout and O'Brien, 1796 - 493 Seiten |
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... continued for feveral years , no lefs diftinguished for his courage , than for his experi- ence as a failor . At length , in an obstinate engagement , off the coast of Portugal , with fome Venetian Caravels , re- turning richly laden ...
... continued for feveral years , no lefs diftinguished for his courage , than for his experi- ence as a failor . At length , in an obstinate engagement , off the coast of Portugal , with fome Venetian Caravels , re- turning richly laden ...
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... continued during several years to trade with that island , with the Canaries , the Azo- res , the settlements in Guinea , and all the other places which the Portuguese had discovered on the continent of Africa . By the experience which ...
... continued during several years to trade with that island , with the Canaries , the Azo- res , the settlements in Guinea , and all the other places which the Portuguese had discovered on the continent of Africa . By the experience which ...
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... continued to fleer , due weft , nearly in the fame latitude with the Canary Isles . In this courfe he came within the sphere of the trade wind , which blows invariably from eaft to west , be- tween the tropics and a few degrees beyond ...
... continued to fleer , due weft , nearly in the fame latitude with the Canary Isles . In this courfe he came within the sphere of the trade wind , which blows invariably from eaft to west , be- tween the tropics and a few degrees beyond ...
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... continued to interrogate all the natives with whom he had any intercourfe concerning their fituation . They concurred in pointing out a mountainous country , which they called Ciboa , at fome diftance from the fea , and farther towards ...
... continued to interrogate all the natives with whom he had any intercourfe concerning their fituation . They concurred in pointing out a mountainous country , which they called Ciboa , at fome diftance from the fea , and farther towards ...
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... continued his voyage towards the fouth . No remarkable occurrence hap- pened till July the nineteenth , when they arrived within five de- grees of the line . There they were becalmed , and at the fame time the heat became fo exceffive ...
... continued his voyage towards the fouth . No remarkable occurrence hap- pened till July the nineteenth , when they arrived within five de- grees of the line . There they were becalmed , and at the fame time the heat became fo exceffive ...
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Seite 130 - 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.
Seite 130 - 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.
Seite 133 - ... spread soft furs for him to rest and sleep on. We demand nothing in return.
Seite 130 - 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.
Seite 168 - 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...
Seite 201 - 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...
Seite 204 - ... 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.
Seite 131 - 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...
Seite 201 - 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.
Seite 168 - ... 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.