A Book of American ExplorersLee and Shepard, 1877 - 367 Seiten |
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... lived at the same time with them on the American Conti- nent , we do not know with certainty : yet there can be little doubt that it was so . In France there have been found rude drawings of the mammoth , made by men on ivory and slate ...
... lived at the same time with them on the American Conti- nent , we do not know with certainty : yet there can be little doubt that it was so . In France there have been found rude drawings of the mammoth , made by men on ivory and slate ...
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... lived very long ago . At the mouth of this very mine just described , there are trees , nearly four hundred years old , growing on earth that was thrown out in digging the mine . Of course , the mine is older than the trees . On a mound ...
... lived very long ago . At the mouth of this very mine just described , there are trees , nearly four hundred years old , growing on earth that was thrown out in digging the mine . Of course , the mine is older than the trees . On a mound ...
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... lived only by hunting : others had fields of waving corn , and raised also beans , pump- kins , tobacco , American hemp , and sunflowers , — these last for the oil in the seeds . Some had only little tents of skin or bark , called ...
... lived only by hunting : others had fields of waving corn , and raised also beans , pump- kins , tobacco , American hemp , and sunflowers , — these last for the oil in the seeds . Some had only little tents of skin or bark , called ...
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... lived in a state of con- stant warfare with one another . When there was a quarrel between tribes , and war seemed ready to break out , strange ceremonies were used . Some lead- ing chief would paint his body black from head to foot ...
... lived in a state of con- stant warfare with one another . When there was a quarrel between tribes , and war seemed ready to break out , strange ceremonies were used . Some lead- ing chief would paint his body black from head to foot ...
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... lived , he was either making voyages , or else draw- ing charts . He lived in Portugal , then in Spain , these being the great seafaring nations at that day ; and he sailed to almost all the ports then known . Most of his voyages ...
... lived , he was either making voyages , or else draw- ing charts . He lived in Portugal , then in Spain , these being the great seafaring nations at that day ; and he sailed to almost all the ports then known . Most of his voyages ...
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Seite 318 - Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God ; and each invokes his aid against the other.
Seite 303 - In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope of earth.
Seite 303 - That, on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever, free...
Seite 355 - Done in convention by the unanimous consent of the States present, the seventeenth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, and of the independence of the United States of America the twelfth.
Seite 164 - Caesar had his Brutus, Charles the First his Cromwell, and George the Third" — " Treason !" cried the speaker — " Treason, treason !" echoed from every part of the house.
Seite 339 - He has refused, for a long time after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected ; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large, for their exercise; the State remaining, in the mean time, exposed to all the dangers of invasions from without, and convulsions within.
Seite 313 - I beg to present you, as a Christmas gift, the city of Savannah, with one hundred and fifty heavy guns and plenty of ammunition, and also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton.
Seite 345 - Sect. 4. The times, places, and manner of holding elections for senators and representatives shall be prescribed in each state by the legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by law make or alter such regulations, except as to th.e places of choosing senators.
Seite 340 - He has abdicated government here, by declaring us out of his protection, and waging war against us. He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burned our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people. He is, at this time, transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny already begun, with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation.
Seite 118 - 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"!