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 1P. Force, 1836 - Bermuda Islands |
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... meanes employed to better purpose , then ( by Gods helpe ) the successe of this may bee , and therefore I cannot but deliuer ( if you please to heare ) what I rudely conceive of a suddaine . There are diuers monuments already publisht ...
... meanes employed to better purpose , then ( by Gods helpe ) the successe of this may bee , and therefore I cannot but deliuer ( if you please to heare ) what I rudely conceive of a suddaine . There are diuers monuments already publisht ...
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... meanes of their remnants settled here and there , do therefore imagine the world to be theirs , shouldring out all other nations , accounting themselues Kings and Commanders , not onely in townes and places where they haue planted , but ...
... meanes of their remnants settled here and there , do therefore imagine the world to be theirs , shouldring out all other nations , accounting themselues Kings and Commanders , not onely in townes and places where they haue planted , but ...
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... meanes then euer heretofore , beeing strongly fenced where wee wonted to lie open : Our plant , we trust , is firmely rooted , our armès and limmes are strong , our branches faire , and much desire to spread themselues abroad . But ...
... meanes then euer heretofore , beeing strongly fenced where wee wonted to lie open : Our plant , we trust , is firmely rooted , our armès and limmes are strong , our branches faire , and much desire to spread themselues abroad . But ...
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... meane time , they were to Plant and fortifie themselues in best manner they could , and to make a discouerie of such ... meanes from thence to visite vs , nor in all this time to giue vs any light of their owne estate : whereas then , if ...
... meane time , they were to Plant and fortifie themselues in best manner they could , and to make a discouerie of such ... meanes from thence to visite vs , nor in all this time to giue vs any light of their owne estate : whereas then , if ...
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... meanes , hath turmoiled all Christendome these fourtie yeares and more . And this I but mention , to note the blind diffidence of our English natures , which laugh to scorne the name of Virginia , and all other new proiects , bee they ...
... meanes , hath turmoiled all Christendome these fourtie yeares and more . And this I but mention , to note the blind diffidence of our English natures , which laugh to scorne the name of Virginia , and all other new proiects , bee they ...
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