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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... prouision of vnspent and vnspoyl- ed victuals , all their furniture and tackling of the Ship , leauing nothing but bared ribs , as a pray vnto the Ocean . These Islands of the Bermudos , haue euer beene accounted as an inchaunted pile ...
... prouision of vnspent and vnspoyl- ed victuals , all their furniture and tackling of the Ship , leauing nothing but bared ribs , as a pray vnto the Ocean . These Islands of the Bermudos , haue euer beene accounted as an inchaunted pile ...
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... prouision had perished by water : if they had not found Hogs , and foule , and fish , they had perish- ed by famine : if there had not beene fuell , they had perished by want of fire : if there had not beene timber they could not haue ...
... prouision had perished by water : if they had not found Hogs , and foule , and fish , they had perish- ed by famine : if there had not beene fuell , they had perished by want of fire : if there had not beene timber they could not haue ...
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... prouision : they created the Indians our implacable enemies by some violence they had offered : they carried away the best Ship ( which should haue been a refuge , in extremites :) they weakned our forces , by substraction of their ...
... prouision : they created the Indians our implacable enemies by some violence they had offered : they carried away the best Ship ( which should haue been a refuge , in extremites :) they weakned our forces , by substraction of their ...
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... prouisions , partly preuented our trade with the Indians , making the match- es in the night , and forestalling our market in the day : whereby the Virginians were glutted with our trifles , and inhaunced the prices of their Corne and ...
... prouisions , partly preuented our trade with the Indians , making the match- es in the night , and forestalling our market in the day : whereby the Virginians were glutted with our trifles , and inhaunced the prices of their Corne and ...
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... prouision ) caused every man to repaire aboord ; his company ( and of his company himselfe ) remained last on shore , to keepe the towne from being burned , which some of our owne company maliciously threatned . About noone they fell ...
... prouision ) caused every man to repaire aboord ; his company ( and of his company himselfe ) remained last on shore , to keepe the towne from being burned , which some of our owne company maliciously threatned . About noone they fell ...
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Page 19 - I speak sadly; me thinks it should break the hearts of English-men, to see so many goodly English-women imprisoned in French Cages, peering out of their hoodholes for some men of mercy to help them with a little wit, and no body relieves them.
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Page 19 - Moon, had need take measure every noon : and he that makes for Women, as often, to keep them from Lunacy. I have often heard divers Ladies vent loud feminine complaints of the wearisome varieties and chargeable changes of fashions: I marvel themselves prefer not a Bill of redress.
Page vii - Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your ceiled houses, and this house lie waste?