History of the United States of America, from the Discovery of the Continent [to 1789], Volume 1 |
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... hundred leagues , on the twenty - fourth day of June , 1497 , early in the morning , almost fourteen months before Columbus on his third voyage came in sight of the main , and more than two years before Amerigo Vespucci sailed west of ...
... hundred leagues , on the twenty - fourth day of June , 1497 , early in the morning , almost fourteen months before Columbus on his third voyage came in sight of the main , and more than two years before Amerigo Vespucci sailed west of ...
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... hundred and fifty French vessels at Newfoundland , and voyages for traffic with the natives met with success . One French mariner , before 1609 , had made more than forty voyages to the American coast . 1598 . At length , when under the ...
... hundred and fifty French vessels at Newfoundland , and voyages for traffic with the natives met with success . One French mariner , before 1609 , had made more than forty voyages to the American coast . 1598 . At length , when under the ...
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... hundred leagues of the coast , and taking possession of the country for the crown of Castile . The carefully drawn map of the pilots showed distinctly the Mississippi , which in this earliest authentic trace of its out- let bears the ...
... hundred leagues of the coast , and taking possession of the country for the crown of Castile . The carefully drawn map of the pilots showed distinctly the Mississippi , which in this earliest authentic trace of its out- let bears the ...
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... hundred men , of whom forty were mounted , he struck into the interior of the country . Then for the first time the floating peninsula , whose low sands , impregnated with lime , just lift themselves above the ocean on foundations laid ...
... hundred men , of whom forty were mounted , he struck into the interior of the country . Then for the first time the floating peninsula , whose low sands , impregnated with lime , just lift themselves above the ocean on foundations laid ...
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... hundred bushels of maize plundered from the Indians , they beat their stirrups , spurs , crossbows , and other implements of iron into saws , axes , and Sept. nails ; and in sixteen days finished five boats , each of twenty - two cubits ...
... hundred bushels of maize plundered from the Indians , they beat their stirrups , spurs , crossbows , and other implements of iron into saws , axes , and Sept. nails ; and in sixteen days finished five boats , each of twenty - two cubits ...
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Page 243 - ... to enact, constitute, and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.
Page 233 - So absolute indeed was the authority of the crown, that the precious spark of liberty had been kindled, and was preserved by the puritans alone ; and it was to this sect, whose principles appear so frivolous and habits so ridiculous, that the English owe the whole freedom of their constitution.
Page 369 - It is therefore ordered, That every township in this jurisdiction, after the Lord hath increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall then forthwith appoint one within their town to teach all such children as shall resort to him to write and read...
Page 241 - Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahava, that we might afflict ourselves before our God, to seek of him a right way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance.
Page 280 - We shall find that the God of Israel is among us, when ten of us shall be able to resist a thousand of our enemies, when He shall make us a praise and glory, that men shall say of succeeding plantations: "The Lord make it like that of New England.
Page 317 - They who have the power to appoint officers and magistrates, it is in their power, also, to set the bounds and limitations of the power and place unto which they call them.
Page 241 - ... I charge you, before God and his blessed angels, that you follow me no farther than you have seen me follow the Lord Jesus Christ. If God reveal anything to you, by any other instrument of his, be as ready to receive it as ever you were to receive any truth by my ministry; for I am verily persuaded the Lord has more truth yet to break forth out of his holy word.
Page 353 - This liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is a liberty to that only which is good, just, and honest. This liberty you are to stand for, with the hazard (not only of your goods, but) of your lives, if need be. Whatsoever crosseth this, is not authority, but a distemper thereof.
Page 405 - Men whose life, learning, faith, and pure intent Would have been held in high esteem with Paul, Must now be named and printed heretics By shallow Edwards and Scotch What d'ye call.
Page 394 - Many more words I had with him; but people coming in, I drew a little back. As I was turning, he catched me by the hand, and with tears in his eyes said, 'Come again to my house; for if thou and I were but an hour of a day together, we should be nearer one to the other ;' adding, That he wished me no more ill than he did to his own soul.