The History of the United States of America, Volume 1Harper, 1849 - United States |
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... followed close in their track ; and this discovery led at once to the establishment of a regular fishery , continued from that day to this . Within two years after Sebastian Cabot's voyage , some natives of the country were brought to ...
... followed close in their track ; and this discovery led at once to the establishment of a regular fishery , continued from that day to this . Within two years after Sebastian Cabot's voyage , some natives of the country were brought to ...
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... followed in the track of Columbus , confined themselves for some twenty years to the exploration of the West India Islands , and the coasts of the Caribbean Sea . The colony which Columbus had himself established on the island of Haiti ...
... followed in the track of Columbus , confined themselves for some twenty years to the exploration of the West India Islands , and the coasts of the Caribbean Sea . The colony which Columbus had himself established on the island of Haiti ...
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... followed by Go- mez , dispatched by the Spanish council of the Indies , it would seem , as a sort of rival to Cabot , in search of a western or northwestern passage into the Pacific , which Gomez had already traversed , as the companion ...
... followed by Go- mez , dispatched by the Spanish council of the Indies , it would seem , as a sort of rival to Cabot , in search of a western or northwestern passage into the Pacific , which Gomez had already traversed , as the companion ...
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... followed to its head , and , cross- ing the mountains , reached the upper waters of the Rio del Norte , which he followed also to their sources , and then struck off northeasterly into the great interior des- ert as far as the 40th ...
... followed to its head , and , cross- ing the mountains , reached the upper waters of the Rio del Norte , which he followed also to their sources , and then struck off northeasterly into the great interior des- ert as far as the 40th ...
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Richard Hildreth. ized life . II . Bursts of passionate activity were followed by CHAPTER long intervals of indolence . Until they learned of the white man to make war on a larger scale , it was the ut- most ambition of their warriors to ...
Richard Hildreth. ized life . II . Bursts of passionate activity were followed by CHAPTER long intervals of indolence . Until they learned of the white man to make war on a larger scale , it was the ut- most ambition of their warriors to ...
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Page 353 - to be true and faithful to the Commonwealth of England as it is now established, without king or House of Lords.
Page 307 - 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.
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Page 400 - In fact, the prophets of the Old Testament, and the apostles of the New, describe the last days as dark, gloomy and perilous, with the church fallen, and far from God, and the world filled with crime and violence.
Page 326 - Further, the Lord hath been pleased to turn all the wigwams, huts, and hovels the English dwelt in at their first coming, into orderly, fair, and well-built houses...
Page 325 - Let men of God in courts and churches watch O'er such as do a toleration hatch ; Lest that ill egg bring forth a cockatrice, To poison all with heresy and vice. If men be left, and otherwise combine, My epitaph's, I died no libertine.
Page 276 - There shall never be any bond slavery, villeinage, or captivity amongst us unless it be lawful captives taken in just wars, and such strangers as willingly sell themselves or are sold to us.
Page 366 - It being one chief project of that old deluder Satan to keep men from the knowledge of the Scriptures, as in former times by keeping them in an unknown tongue, so in these latter times by persuading from the use of tongues...
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