Colonial ChildrenEssays, poems, and stories which depict the lives of children during colonial times. |
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Page 11
... chief not wish to leave an enemy behind . He gave him an abundance of beads , looking glasses , and some iron sea across the axes . In return , Balboa demanded of Ponca some guides and men to carry burdens . The Cacique granted chief ...
... chief not wish to leave an enemy behind . He gave him an abundance of beads , looking glasses , and some iron sea across the axes . In return , Balboa demanded of Ponca some guides and men to carry burdens . The Cacique granted chief ...
Page 17
... chief told him to come and find the Indians in the town where they were , adding , that for De Soto or any other per- son he would not shrink one foot back . с A mile and a half wide and a hundred feet No. 7 ] 17 In the Mississippi.
... chief told him to come and find the Indians in the town where they were , adding , that for De Soto or any other per- son he would not shrink one foot back . с A mile and a half wide and a hundred feet No. 7 ] 17 In the Mississippi.
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... chief apprehension arose from the fear that they might possess themselves of our cannon and turn them against ourselves . Therefore I thought that while unable to see what our assailants were doing , I could not employ myself better ...
... chief apprehension arose from the fear that they might possess themselves of our cannon and turn them against ourselves . Therefore I thought that while unable to see what our assailants were doing , I could not employ myself better ...
Page 48
... chief and worst ( we may suppose ) of these barbarous rogues , took on him the command , and named the snow the " Fame's Revenge . " They were well stored with powder , and rum and pro- visions , but wanted a better vessel ; and in ...
... chief and worst ( we may suppose ) of these barbarous rogues , took on him the command , and named the snow the " Fame's Revenge . " They were well stored with powder , and rum and pro- visions , but wanted a better vessel ; and in ...
Page 50
... chief pirate on board the schooner , " To have a special care of his friend , " did increase his jealousy ; though he seemed only to laugh at it . Within a little while Atkinson spied a sail ahead to the leeward , and informed Fly of it ...
... chief pirate on board the schooner , " To have a special care of his friend , " did increase his jealousy ; though he seemed only to laugh at it . Within a little while Atkinson spied a sail ahead to the leeward , and informed Fly of it ...
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ALBERT BUSHNELL HART ANNE BRADSTREET arrived arrow ashore Atahuallpa Balboa bears beaver began better boat brother brought cacique called canoe Captain carry Christian cloth colony corn creatures Cuzco dance danger deer enemy England English father fear feet fire fish friends gave give ground hand Harquebus heard horses hundred Indians island Japazeus John JOHN BARNARD John Cabot John Rolfe JOHN WINTHROP Karlsefni killed kind King land live Madeira wine master miles morning never night Pennacooks pinnace pirates planters Pocahontas pounds Powhatan's river sail salt salt-box schooner seen sent ship shore side skins Skrellings soon sort Soto Spaniards story thick things Thorfinn Karlsefni thought told took town trade trees vessels Virginia voyage wife wild William Fly winter women woods young
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Page 49 - Make no friendship with an angry man ; and with a furious man thou shalt not go: lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.
Page 198 - When I saw another fond of popularity, constantly employing himself in political bustles, neglecting his own affairs, and ruining them by that neglect ; He pays indeed, says I, too much for his whistle.
Page 205 - For if she had attended her household affairs, and such things as belong to women, and not gone out of her way and calling to meddle in such things as are proper for men, whose minds are stronger, etc., she had kept her wits, and might have improved them usefully and honorably in the place God had set her.
Page 198 - If I knew a miser, who gave up every kind of comfortable living, all the pleasure of doing good to others, all the esteem of his fellowcitizens, and the joys of benevolent friendship for the sake of accumulating wealth, Poor man, said I, you pay too much for your whistle.
Page 133 - Being thus passed the vast ocean, and a sea of troubles before in their preparation (as may be remembered by that which went before), they had now no friends to welcome them nor inns to entertain or refresh their weatherbeaten bodies; no houses or much less towns to repair to, to seek for succour.
Page 197 - I then came home, and went whistling all over the house, much pleased with my whistle, but disturbing all the family. My brothers, and sisters, and cousins, understanding the bargain I had made, told me I had given four times as much for it as it was worth...
Page 199 - I, he has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle. When I see a beautiful, sweet-tempered girl married to an ill-natured brute of a husband, What a pity, say I, that she should pay so much for a whistle ! In short, I conceive that great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by the false estimates they have made of the value of things, and by their giving too much for their whistles.
Page 211 - My proposal was to build a wharf there fit for us to stand upon, and I showed my comrades a large heap of stones which were intended for a new house near the marsh, and which would very well suit our purpose.
Page 197 - I might have bought with the rest of the money, and laughed at me so much for my folly that I cried with vexation; and the reflection gave me more chagrin than the whistle gave me pleasure.
Page 215 - I remember once, in making a piece of Latin, my master found fault with the syntax of one word, which was not so used by me heedlessly, but designedly, and therefore I told him there was a plain grammar rule for it. He angrily replied, there was no such rule. I took the grammar and showed the rule to him. Then he smilingly said, ' Thou art a brave boy ; I had forgot it.