History of the United States from Their First Settlement as Colonies, to the Close of the War with Great Britain, in 1815: To which is Added, Questions Adapted to the Use of Schools |
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... vessels , along the shores of the continent , treated the project as chimerical , and declined furnish- ing aid . A pressing application to the king of Portugal , in whose dominions he had resided , met likewise with ridicule and ...
... vessels , along the shores of the continent , treated the project as chimerical , and declined furnish- ing aid . A pressing application to the king of Portugal , in whose dominions he had resided , met likewise with ridicule and ...
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... vessel , was heard the cry of " Land ! land ! " which was repeated , with almost frantic delight , by the crews of the other vessels . Passing from one extreme to the other , they , who a few days before had reviled and insulted their ...
... vessel , was heard the cry of " Land ! land ! " which was repeated , with almost frantic delight , by the crews of the other vessels . Passing from one extreme to the other , they , who a few days before had reviled and insulted their ...
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... vessels , to fish on the banks of Newfoundland . In 1524 , John Verrazzano , a Florentine , in the employment of the ... vessel and put to sea . Having been out several weeks and consumed all their provisions , one of their number , who ...
... vessels , to fish on the banks of Newfoundland . In 1524 , John Verrazzano , a Florentine , in the employment of the ... vessel and put to sea . Having been out several weeks and consumed all their provisions , one of their number , who ...
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... vessels fishing in the harbor . He landed and took possession of the country in the name of his sovereign . On his return to England , he suf- fered shipwreck and perished . 25. The next year , sir Walter Raleigh , distinguished in the ...
... vessels fishing in the harbor . He landed and took possession of the country in the name of his sovereign . On his return to England , he suf- fered shipwreck and perished . 25. The next year , sir Walter Raleigh , distinguished in the ...
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... vessel in the river . Against these he in- stantly directed the guns of the fort , when , to avoid the danger of being sunk , they hastened back to their companions . 16. Sustaining now a high reputation among the Indians , he obtained ...
... vessel in the river . Against these he in- stantly directed the guns of the fort , when , to avoid the danger of being sunk , they hastened back to their companions . 16. Sustaining now a high reputation among the Indians , he obtained ...
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Page 161 - ... free and independent States; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown, and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved ; and that, as free and independent States, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and do all other acts and things which independent States may of right do.
Page 125 - In such a cause, your success would be hazardous. America, if she fell, would fall like the strong man; she would embrace the pillars of the state, and pull down the Constitution along with her.
Page 270 - No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hard industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people ; a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
Page 207 - Since there is no truth more thoroughly established, than that there exists in the economy and course of nature, an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness — between duty and advantage — between the genuine maxims of an honest and magnanimous policy, and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity.
Page 144 - With hearts fortified with these animating reflections, we most solemnly, before God and the world, declare, that, exerting the utmost energy of those powers which our beneficent Creator hath graciously bestowed upon us, the arms we have been compelled by our enemies to assume, we will, in defiance of every hazard, with unabating firmness and perseverance, employ for the preservation of our liberties ; being with one mind resolved to die freemen rather than to live slaves.
Page 270 - As to the wealth which the colonies have drawn from the sea by their fisheries, you had all that matter fully opened at your bar. You surely thought those acquisitions of value, for they seemed even to excite your envy ; and yet the spirit by which that enterprising employment has been exercised ought rather, in my opinion, to have raised your esteem and admiration. And pray, sir, what in the world is equal to it? Pass by the other parts, and look at the manner in which the people of New England...
Page 143 - We are reduced to the alternative of choosing an unconditional submission to the tyranny of irritated ministers, or resistance by force. The latter is our choice. We. have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery.
Page 270 - We know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil.
Page 2 - District, has deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit : " THE CHILD'S BOTANY," In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, " An act for the encouragement of learning by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned...
Page 125 - A great deal has been said without doors, of the power, of the strength of America. It is a topic that ought to be cautiously meddled with. In a good cause, on a sound bottom, the force of this country can crush America to atoms.