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... Ship aground at Jamaica . Indians refuse him Assistance . Foretells an Eclipse of the Moon , and takes Advantage of it . Returns to Spain . His Treatment and Death . AS individuals are protected in the enjoyment of their wealth and ...
... Ship aground at Jamaica . Indians refuse him Assistance . Foretells an Eclipse of the Moon , and takes Advantage of it . Returns to Spain . His Treatment and Death . AS individuals are protected in the enjoyment of their wealth and ...
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... ships to which it was fast grappled . In this dreadful ex- tremity he threw himself into the sea , laid hold of a floating oar , and by the support of that , and his own dexterity in swimming , he reached the shore , and saved a life ...
... ships to which it was fast grappled . In this dreadful ex- tremity he threw himself into the sea , laid hold of a floating oar , and by the support of that , and his own dexterity in swimming , he reached the shore , and saved a life ...
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... ships was fitted out , victualled for twelve months , and furnished with ninety men . And on the third day of August he left Spain , in the presence A. D. of a crowd of spectators , who united their 1492 . supplications to heaven for ...
... ships was fitted out , victualled for twelve months , and furnished with ninety men . And on the third day of August he left Spain , in the presence A. D. of a crowd of spectators , who united their 1492 . supplications to heaven for ...
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... ship ' to ship . From secret whispers they proceeded to open cabals and public complaints . All agreed that Columbus should be compelled by force to make the best way home . Some even proposed to throw him into the sea , as the surest ...
... ship ' to ship . From secret whispers they proceeded to open cabals and public complaints . All agreed that Columbus should be compelled by force to make the best way home . Some even proposed to throw him into the sea , as the surest ...
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... ships . They all waited in the anguish of uncertainty and impatience for the return of day , As soon as morning dawned all doubts and fears were dispelled . From every ship an island was seen about two leagues to the north , whose ...
... ships . They all waited in the anguish of uncertainty and impatience for the return of day , As soon as morning dawned all doubts and fears were dispelled . From every ship an island was seen about two leagues to the north , whose ...
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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.