A History of Virginia: Containing the history of the colony to the peace of Paris, in 1763Carey & Hart, 1846 - Virginia |
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... subject . Convinced that truth should be the first object of the historian , he has laboured with earnestness in examining , sifting , and com- paring the evidence , printed and in manuscript , upon which he has relied . Every material ...
... subject . Convinced that truth should be the first object of the historian , he has laboured with earnestness in examining , sifting , and com- paring the evidence , printed and in manuscript , upon which he has relied . Every material ...
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... subject of the following pages that would seem , at first sight , to bear but a small value when compared with all the interests of the powerful republic of which Vir- ginia is a part ; but it will not be difficult to show that her ...
... subject of the following pages that would seem , at first sight , to bear but a small value when compared with all the interests of the powerful republic of which Vir- ginia is a part ; but it will not be difficult to show that her ...
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... subjects such places as they could subdue ; giving them the rule and jurisdiction of the same , to be holden on con- dition of paying to the king as often as they should arrive at Bristol , ( at which place only they were a Marshall's ...
... subjects such places as they could subdue ; giving them the rule and jurisdiction of the same , to be holden on con- dition of paying to the king as often as they should arrive at Bristol , ( at which place only they were a Marshall's ...
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... subjects of his Holiness had learned to yield to him spiritual obedience so absolute as to bring their lips to his feet , and yet , when necessary , to bind his temporal hands.b C On the 3d February , 1498 , Henry granted to John Cabot ...
... subjects of his Holiness had learned to yield to him spiritual obedience so absolute as to bring their lips to his feet , and yet , when necessary , to bind his temporal hands.b C On the 3d February , 1498 , Henry granted to John Cabot ...
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... subject of surprise , perhaps of re- gret to many , that England should so long have delayed to plant colonies in that inviting country which had been opened to her view by her fearless a Purchas , iv . 1532-1556 ; Bancroft's U. S. , i ...
... subject of surprise , perhaps of re- gret to many , that England should so long have delayed to plant colonies in that inviting country which had been opened to her view by her fearless a Purchas , iv . 1532-1556 ; Bancroft's U. S. , i ...
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Page 336 - I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years; for learning has brought disobedience, and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both!
Page 81 - WE, greatly commending, and graciously accepting of, their Desires for the Furtherance of so noble a Work, which may, by the Providence of Almighty God, hereafter tend to the Glory of his Divine Majesty, in propagating of Christian Religion to such People, as yet live in Darkness and miserable Ignorance of the true Knowledge and Worship of God...
Page 115 - By a law of their nature, they seem destined to a slow, but sure extinction. Every where, at the approach of the white man, they fade away.
Page 361 - «welcome ; I am more glad to see you than any man in Virginia. Mr. Drummond you shall be hanged in half an hour.
Page 149 - I can have nothing, but what you regard not, and yet you wil have whatsoever you demand. Captain Newport you call father, and so you call me, but I see for all us both, you will...
Page 169 - A great part of the new company," says Mr. Stith, "consisted of unruly sparks, packed off by their friends to escape worse destinies at home. And the rest were chiefly made up of poor gentlemen, broken tradesmen, rakes and libertines, footmen, and such others as were much fitter to spoil and ruin a Commonwealth, than to help to raise or maintain one.
Page 91 - Henry; where thirty of them, recreating themselves on shore, were assaulted by five savages, who hurt two of the English very dangerously. That night was the box opened and the orders read, in which Bartholomew...
Page 79 - ... for and towards the said several Plantations, and Colonies, and to travel thitherward, and to abide and inhabit there, in every the said Colonies and Plantations, such and so many of our Subjects, as shall willingly accompany them or any of them, in the said Voyages and Plantations ; With sufficient Shipping, and Furniture of Armour, Weapons, Ordinance, Powder, Victual, and all other things, necessary...
Page 32 - March, granted to him and his three sons, giving them liberty to sail to all parts of the east, west, and north, under the royal banners and ensigns, to discover countries of the heathen, unknown to Christians ; to set up the king's banners there ; to occupy and possess, as...
Page 149 - I desire, but onely you; of whom I can have nothing but what you regard not, and yet you will have whatsoever you demand.