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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... operations against the Moors , paid so much regard to Columbus , as to remit the confideration of his plan to the queen's confeffor , Ferdinand de Talavera . ) He confulted fuch of his countrymen as were fuppofed beft qualified to ...
... operations against the Moors , paid so much regard to Columbus , as to remit the confideration of his plan to the queen's confeffor , Ferdinand de Talavera . ) He confulted fuch of his countrymen as were fuppofed beft qualified to ...
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... operation of ignorance , and of fear in producing difaffection among his crew , and law that it was now ready to burst out into open mutiny . He retained , however , perfect prefence of mind . He affected to feem ignorant of their ...
... operation of ignorance , and of fear in producing difaffection among his crew , and law that it was now ready to burst out into open mutiny . He retained , however , perfect prefence of mind . He affected to feem ignorant of their ...
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... operation of their cross - bows . rude people , strangers to the use of iron , and unacquainted with any hoftile weapons , but arrows of reeds pointed with the bones of fishes , wooden fwords , and javelins hardened in the fire , won ...
... operation of their cross - bows . rude people , strangers to the use of iron , and unacquainted with any hoftile weapons , but arrows of reeds pointed with the bones of fishes , wooden fwords , and javelins hardened in the fire , won ...
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... operations alone . The example of the Portuguese , as well as the fuperftition of the age , made it necessary to obtain from the Roman pontiff a grant of those ter- ritories which they wished to occupy . The Pope , as the vicar and ...
... operations alone . The example of the Portuguese , as well as the fuperftition of the age , made it necessary to obtain from the Roman pontiff a grant of those ter- ritories which they wished to occupy . The Pope , as the vicar and ...
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... operations too complicated and laborious for their talents and induftry , and they had no fuch high value for gold as to put their ingenuity and invention upon the ftretch in order to obtain it . The fmall quantity of that precious ...
... operations too complicated and laborious for their talents and induftry , and they had no fuch high value for gold as to put their ingenuity and invention upon the ftretch in order to obtain it . The fmall quantity of that precious ...
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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.