Tracts and Other Papers Relating Principally to the Origin, Settlement, and Progress of the Colonies in North America: From the Discovery of the Country to the Year 1776, Volume 3Peter Force P. Force, 1844 - United States |
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... himselfe in those dominions . In the yeere 1495. Iohn Cabot a Venetian , but the indenized subiect of King Henrie the seauenth discouered the North parts of America , to Meta incognita , and so it was annexed to the Crowne of England ...
... himselfe in those dominions . In the yeere 1495. Iohn Cabot a Venetian , but the indenized subiect of King Henrie the seauenth discouered the North parts of America , to Meta incognita , and so it was annexed to the Crowne of England ...
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... himselfe accused publiquelie and in print of a treeble defect . First that hee ranne so farre Southerlie and into the Tropique , that the heat caused the infection in the ships . Secondlie that hee gaue a sealed direction , that if they ...
... himselfe accused publiquelie and in print of a treeble defect . First that hee ranne so farre Southerlie and into the Tropique , that the heat caused the infection in the ships . Secondlie that hee gaue a sealed direction , that if they ...
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... himselfe might not liue in paridice without dressing the garden . Vnto idlenesse , you may ioyne treasons , wrought by those vnhallowed creatures that forsooke the Colony , and exposed their desolate brethren to extreame miserie . You ...
... himselfe might not liue in paridice without dressing the garden . Vnto idlenesse , you may ioyne treasons , wrought by those vnhallowed creatures that forsooke the Colony , and exposed their desolate brethren to extreame miserie . You ...
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... himselfe he said that his wife died , that he hid her to satisfie his hunger , and that he fed daily vpon her . Vpon this , his house was againe searched , where they found a good quantitie of meale , oatemeale , beanes and pease . Hee ...
... himselfe he said that his wife died , that he hid her to satisfie his hunger , and that he fed daily vpon her . Vpon this , his house was againe searched , where they found a good quantitie of meale , oatemeale , beanes and pease . Hee ...
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... him to vnderstand , how neuer was there more neede of all the powers of judgement , then at this present ; it being now his charge , both to saue such as he found so forlorne and wretched , as to redeeme himselfe and his from falling ...
... him to vnderstand , how neuer was there more neede of all the powers of judgement , then at this present ; it being now his charge , both to saue such as he found so forlorne and wretched , as to redeeme himselfe and his from falling ...
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