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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... town in the province of Andalufia . As the guardian Juan Perez , to whom Columbus had already been so much indebted , refided in the neighbourhood of this place , he , by the influence of that good ecclefiaftic , as well as by his own ...
... town in the province of Andalufia . As the guardian Juan Perez , to whom Columbus had already been so much indebted , refided in the neighbourhood of this place , he , by the influence of that good ecclefiaftic , as well as by his own ...
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... town in a large plain near a spaci- ous bay , and obliging every person to put his hand to a work on which their common fafety depended , the houses and ramparts were foon so far advanced by their united labour , as to afford them ...
... town in a large plain near a spaci- ous bay , and obliging every person to put his hand to a work on which their common fafety depended , the houses and ramparts were foon so far advanced by their united labour , as to afford them ...
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... town , and furround- ed it with ramparts . They had erected forts in different places . They had enclosed and fown several fields . It was apparent that they came not to vifit the country but to fettle in it . Though the number of those ...
... town , and furround- ed it with ramparts . They had erected forts in different places . They had enclosed and fown several fields . It was apparent that they came not to vifit the country but to fettle in it . Though the number of those ...
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... town in the New World , and the feat of the fupreme courts in the Spanish domi- nions there . As foon as the Spaniards were established in this new settlement , the adelantado , that they might neither languish in inactivity , nor have ...
... town in the New World , and the feat of the fupreme courts in the Spanish domi- nions there . As foon as the Spaniards were established in this new settlement , the adelantado , that they might neither languish in inactivity , nor have ...
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... town , as the public records of the nation ; and to them they occafionally have recourse , when any public conteft happens with a neighbouring tribe . Of jate , as the materials of which thofe belts are made have become scarce , they ...
... town , as the public records of the nation ; and to them they occafionally have recourse , when any public conteft happens with a neighbouring tribe . Of jate , as the materials of which thofe belts are made have become scarce , they ...
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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.