Our Country: A Household History for All Readers, from the Discovery of America to the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, Volume 1Johnson Wilson & Company, 1875 - 1866 pages |
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... soon fighting the storms and waves of the North Atlantic Ocean between Greenland and Labrador , and were sometimes chilled by slow - drifting icebergs . At length they saw land . It was flat and stony near the shore , with high snow ...
... soon fighting the storms and waves of the North Atlantic Ocean between Greenland and Labrador , and were sometimes chilled by slow - drifting icebergs . At length they saw land . It was flat and stony near the shore , with high snow ...
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... soon as the law would allow . Then they visited the burial places of their husbands , and cutting off their long tresses , strewed them over the graves . When their hair had grown to its usual length.they were ready to marry again ...
... soon as the law would allow . Then they visited the burial places of their husbands , and cutting off their long tresses , strewed them over the graves . When their hair had grown to its usual length.they were ready to marry again ...
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... soon make . He summoned his scientific friends of Palos to a council for consultation . Among them came Martin Alonzo Pinzon , the head of a wealthy family of navigators there . Pinzon approved the project of Columbus , and showed his ...
... soon make . He summoned his scientific friends of Palos to a council for consultation . Among them came Martin Alonzo Pinzon , the head of a wealthy family of navigators there . Pinzon approved the project of Columbus , and showed his ...
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... soon done with willing hands , for a truly Christian spirit animated these pagans . " So loving , and tractable , and peaceable are these people , " Columbus wrote to Ferdinand and Isabella from Hispaniola afterward , " that I declare ...
... soon done with willing hands , for a truly Christian spirit animated these pagans . " So loving , and tractable , and peaceable are these people , " Columbus wrote to Ferdinand and Isabella from Hispaniola afterward , " that I declare ...
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... soon afterwards she was anchored in the waters of that river . Columbus immediately sent a courier with a letter to Ferdinand and Isabella , in which he announced his great discovery . He also wrote a letter to John , King of Portugal ...
... soon afterwards she was anchored in the waters of that river . Columbus immediately sent a courier with a letter to Ferdinand and Isabella , in which he announced his great discovery . He also wrote a letter to John , King of Portugal ...
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Page 360 - Esq., or in his absence, to such as for the time being, take care for preserving the peace and administering the laws, in their majesties' province of New- York, in America.
Page 206 - Having undertaken, for the Glory of God and advancement of the Christian Faith and Honour of our King and Country, a Voyage to plant the First Colony in the Northern Parts of Virginia...
Page 145 - We found the people most gentle, loving, and faithful, void of all guile and treason and such as lived after the manner of the Golden Age.
Page 280 - on the broad pathway of good faith and good will ; no advantage shall be taken on either side, but all shall be openness and love. I will not call you children, for parents sometimes chide their children too severely ; nor brothers only, for brothers differ. The friendship between me and you I will not compare to a chain, for that the rains might rust, or the falling tree might break. We are the same as if one man's body were to be divided into two parts; we are all one flesh and blood.
Page 330 - He was exactly five feet six inches in height, and six feet five inches in circumference. His head was a perfect sphere, and of such stupendous dimensions, that dame Nature, with all her sex's ingenuity, would have been puzzled to construct a neck capable of supporting it; wherefore she wisely declined the attempt, and settled it firmly on the top of his back bone, just between the shoulders.
Page 10 - ... we know not when or how these Indians first became inhabitants of this mighty continent, yet we may guess that probably the Devil decoyed those miserable salvages hither, in hopes that the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ would never come here to destroy or disturb his absolute empire over them.
Page 459 - My soul prays to God for thee, that thou mayest stand in the day of trial, that thy children may be blessed of the Lord, and thy people saved by His power.
Page 263 - We, whose names are underwritten do here solemnly in the presence of Jehovah incorporate ourselves into a Bodie Politick, and as he shall help, will submit our persons, lives and estates, unto our Lord Jesus Christ, the King of Kings, and Lord of Lords, and to all those perfect and most absolute laws of his given us in his holy word of truth, to be guided and judged thereby.
Page 260 - We, whose names are here underwritten, being desirous to inhabit in the town of Providence, do promise to submit ourselves in active or passive obedience to all such orders or agreements as shall be made for public good of the body. in an orderly way, by the major consent of the present inhabitants, masters of families, incorporated together into a township, and such others whom they shall admit into the same only in civil things.
Page 315 - I thank God, there are no free schools, nor printing in Virginia, and I hope we shall not have them 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.