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... considered as essential to in- dustry , and labour necessary to the opulence and happiness of society , we cannot but regard the dis- covery of the vast continent of America , and the islands with which it is on all sides surrounded ...
... considered as essential to in- dustry , and labour necessary to the opulence and happiness of society , we cannot but regard the dis- covery of the vast continent of America , and the islands with which it is on all sides surrounded ...
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... considered as irre- sistible . But while Columbus endeavoured to in- spire the natives with a dread of his power , he did not neglect the arts of gaining their love and con- fidence . He adhered scrupulously to the princi- ples of ...
... considered as irre- sistible . But while Columbus endeavoured to in- spire the natives with a dread of his power , he did not neglect the arts of gaining their love and con- fidence . He adhered scrupulously to the princi- ples of ...
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... considered as rebellion , and took arms in order to reduce them to subjection . They considered them not as men fight- ing in defence of their rights , but as slaves who had revolted against their masters . Their caziques , when taken ...
... considered as rebellion , and took arms in order to reduce them to subjection . They considered them not as men fight- ing in defence of their rights , but as slaves who had revolted against their masters . Their caziques , when taken ...
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... considered as fatal to their liberty and independence . This implacable enmity of the natives might perhaps have been surmounted by the perseverance of the Spaniards , by the superiority of their arms , and their skill in the art of war ...
... considered as fatal to their liberty and independence . This implacable enmity of the natives might perhaps have been surmounted by the perseverance of the Spaniards , by the superiority of their arms , and their skill in the art of war ...
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... considered him as a slave who had taken arms against his master , and con- demned him to the flames . When Hatuey was fastened to the stake , a Franciscan friar laboured to convert him , and promised him admittance into the joys of ...
... considered him as a slave who had taken arms against his master , and con- demned him to the flames . When Hatuey was fastened to the stake , a Franciscan friar laboured to convert him , and promised him admittance into the joys of ...
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Page 280 - Filling a glass, he turned to them and said, "with a heart full of love and gratitude, I now take leave of you ; I most devoutly wish that your latter days may be as prosperous and happy, as your former ones have been glorious and honorable.
Page 255 - For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies...
Page 244 - We are reduced to the alternative of choosing an unconditional submission to the tyranny of irritated ministers, or resistance by force. The latter is our choice. We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery.
Page 240 - HANCOCK, whose offences are of too flagitious a nature to admit of any other consideration than that of condign punishment.
Page 12 - As they proceeded, the indications of approaching land seemed to be more certain, and excited hope in proportion. The birds began to appear in flocks, making towards the south-west. Columbus, in imitation of the Portuguese navigators, who had been guided, in several of their discoveries, by the motion of birds...
Page 282 - Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of action, and bidding an affectionate farewell to this august body, under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life.
Page 14 - ... which had created him so much unnecessary disquiet, and had so often obstructed the prosecution of his well-concerted plan; and passing, in the warmth of their admiration, from one extreme to another, they now pronounced the man, whom they had so lately reviled and threatened, to be a person inspired by heaven with sagacity and fortitude more than human, in order to accomplish a design so far beyond the ideas and conception of all former ages.
Page 218 - As a remarkable instance of this, I may point out to the public that heroic youth, Colonel Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has hitherto preserved in so signal a manner for some important service to his country.
Page 256 - In every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms. Our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Page 254 - He has refused, for a long time after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected ; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large, for their exercise ; the State remaining, in the mean time, exposed to all the danger of invasion from without, and convulsions within.