The History of North America, Volume 3Guy Carleton Lee, Francis Newton Thorpe subscribers only, 1904 - Indians of North America |
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... livres . While not prime minister , while not even foreign minister , the policy advocated by him pre- vailed to a large extent during his lifetime , and this was to keep up the relations established by Henry IV . and continued by ...
... livres . While not prime minister , while not even foreign minister , the policy advocated by him pre- vailed to a large extent during his lifetime , and this was to keep up the relations established by Henry IV . and continued by ...
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... livres per annum . Each skin would yield four or five pounds of good wool , which brought twenty sous , and two pounds of hair at ten sous . Besides this , one would get each year more than two hundred thou- sand livres of other peltry ...
... livres per annum . Each skin would yield four or five pounds of good wool , which brought twenty sous , and two pounds of hair at ten sous . Besides this , one would get each year more than two hundred thou- sand livres of other peltry ...
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... livres we are less surprised that a pirate from British Jamaica should be able to destroy property worth fifty thousand livres . And now , in one of those sudden storms not unknown on the Gulf , the sand from Pelican Island was washed ...
... livres we are less surprised that a pirate from British Jamaica should be able to destroy property worth fifty thousand livres . And now , in one of those sudden storms not unknown on the Gulf , the sand from Pelican Island was washed ...
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... livres the great diamond secretly brought from India by a soldier , and which , named for the regent , is still the priceless jewel of France . Before the time Dr. Samuel Johnson could say of the scenery of Scotland that the finest view ...
... livres the great diamond secretly brought from India by a soldier , and which , named for the regent , is still the priceless jewel of France . Before the time Dr. Samuel Johnson could say of the scenery of Scotland that the finest view ...
Page 227
... livres , and this he took to Paris when his friend the Duc d'Orléans became regent , with a State debt to meet of two billions and a half . After some changes in plans , Law succeeded in getting the regent to issue letters patent on May ...
... livres , and this he took to Paris when his friend the Duc d'Orléans became regent , with a State debt to meet of two billions and a half . After some changes in plans , Law succeeded in getting the regent to issue letters patent on May ...
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Page 61 - Also we do, for Us, our Heirs, and Successors, Declare, by these Presents, that all and every the Persons, being our Subjects, which shall dwell and inhabit within every or any of the said several Colonies...
Page 61 - Resolved, That by two royal charters, granted by King James the First, the colonists, aforesaid, are declared entitled to all the privileges, liberties and immunities of denizens and natural born subjects, to all intents and purposes, as if they had been abiding and born within the realm of England.
Page 127 - «welcome ; I am more glad to see you than any man in Virginia. Mr. Drummond you shall be hanged in half an hour.
Page 60 - Manor of East Greenwich in the County of Kent in free and Common Soccage and not in Capite or by Knights Service.
Page 472 - The members of this congress, sincerely devoted, with the warmest sentiments of affection and duty, to his majesty's person and government, inviolably attached to the present happy establishment of the protestant succession, and with minds deeply impressed by a sense of the present and impending misfortunes of the British colonies on this continent ; having considered as maturely as time will permit, the circumstances of the said colonies...
Page 471 - .Resolved, therefore, That the general assembly of this colony have the sole right and power to lay taxes and impositions upon the inhabitants of this colony; and that every attempt to vest such power in any person or persons whatsoever, other than the general assembly aforesaid, has a manifest tendency to destroy British as well as American freedom.
Page 164 - III. [109] c. 22. that all laws, by-laws, usages, and customs, which shall be in practice in any of the plantations, repugnant to any law, made or to be made in this kingdom relative to the said plantations, shall be utterly void and of none effect.
Page 159 - Proprietary governments, granted out by the crown to individuals, in the nature of feudatory principalities, with all the inferior regalities, and subordinate powers of legislation, which formerly belonged to the owners of counties palatine...
Page 472 - That it is inseparably essential to the freedom of a people, and the undoubted right of Englishmen, that no taxes be imposed on them, but with their own consent, given personally, or by their representatives.
Page 318 - The subjects of France inhabiting Canada, and others, shall hereafter give no hindrance or molestation to the five nations or cantons of Indians, subject to the Dominion of Great Britain, nor to the other natives of America, who are friends to the same.