A Book of American ExplorersLee and Shepard, 1877 - 367 Seiten |
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... settled VIII . The Massachusetts Colonies IX . The other New England Colonies X. Colonial Days in New England . XI . Old Dutch Times in New York and New Jersey XII . The Friends in Pennsylvania and the Swedes in Delaware XIII . The Old ...
... settled VIII . The Massachusetts Colonies IX . The other New England Colonies X. Colonial Days in New England . XI . Old Dutch Times in New York and New Jersey XII . The Friends in Pennsylvania and the Swedes in Delaware XIII . The Old ...
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... settled Iceland a thousand years ago and it is known from the annals of Iceland that a colony was sent thence to Greenland , and there remained for a long time ; and some of these emigrants may easily have sailed on to Labrador ; or ...
... settled Iceland a thousand years ago and it is known from the annals of Iceland that a colony was sent thence to Greenland , and there remained for a long time ; and some of these emigrants may easily have sailed on to Labrador ; or ...
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... : ' but it is not certain whether he sent out a second expe- dition ; or whether Verrazzano made any more voyages , or what became of him . CHAPTER VII . HOW AMERICA WAS EXPLORED AND SETTLED . THE SUCCESSORS OF COLUMBUS . 45.
... : ' but it is not certain whether he sent out a second expe- dition ; or whether Verrazzano made any more voyages , or what became of him . CHAPTER VII . HOW AMERICA WAS EXPLORED AND SETTLED . THE SUCCESSORS OF COLUMBUS . 45.
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... two would draw it alike ; and the different maps would look very strangely side by side . Now , this is precisely the way it was with those who first came to the shores of the North - American 46 How America was explored and settled •
... two would draw it alike ; and the different maps would look very strangely side by side . Now , this is precisely the way it was with those who first came to the shores of the North - American 46 How America was explored and settled •
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... just like the boys by the lake . There was not a harbor along the Atlantic shore , from Labrador to Terra del Fuego , that had not been entered before this N : 2 . 97 : 3 . 97 : HOW AMERICA WAS EXPLORED AND SETTLED . 47.
... just like the boys by the lake . There was not a harbor along the Atlantic shore , from Labrador to Terra del Fuego , that had not been entered before this N : 2 . 97 : 3 . 97 : HOW AMERICA WAS EXPLORED AND SETTLED . 47.
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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"!