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... River in the latter State . Then another brother , named Thorstein , came with his band in the year 1005 , and two years afterwards Thorfinn Karlsefne , the most distinguished mariner of his day , arrived with a crew of a hundred and ...
... River in the latter State . Then another brother , named Thorstein , came with his band in the year 1005 , and two years afterwards Thorfinn Karlsefne , the most distinguished mariner of his day , arrived with a crew of a hundred and ...
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... River and several other places seem to point clearly to some such events as are here described . The Icelandic poets and historians give a uniform and tolerably consistent account of the early exploits of their countrymen in Vinland ...
... River and several other places seem to point clearly to some such events as are here described . The Icelandic poets and historians give a uniform and tolerably consistent account of the early exploits of their countrymen in Vinland ...
Page 65
... rivers , wading morasses and fighting Indians . Oc- tober found them on Flint River , where they established themselves for the winter . In the following spring they set out in a northeasterly direction to find a great city , of which a ...
... rivers , wading morasses and fighting Indians . Oc- tober found them on Flint River , where they established themselves for the winter . In the following spring they set out in a northeasterly direction to find a great city , of which a ...
Page 66
... River , and that stream to the Mis- sissippi . De Soto was broken down . His dreams of con- quest and empire had passed away . A fever seized him , and he died on the banks of the great river , and in the turbid waters his coffin was ...
... River , and that stream to the Mis- sissippi . De Soto was broken down . His dreams of con- quest and empire had passed away . A fever seized him , and he died on the banks of the great river , and in the turbid waters his coffin was ...
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... river in honor of that saint . Philip of Spain was proclaimed mon- arch of North America , and on the 8th of September the foundations were laid of St. Augustine , the oldest town built by white men within the limits of the United ...
... river in honor of that saint . Philip of Spain was proclaimed mon- arch of North America , and on the 8th of September the foundations were laid of St. Augustine , the oldest town built by white men within the limits of the United ...
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Page 404 - We have lived long, but this is the noblest work of our whole lives. The treaty which we have just signed has not been obtained by art or dictated by force; equally advantageous to the two contracting parties, it will change vast solitudes into flourishing districts.
Page 315 - And tall, and strong, and swift of foot were they, Beyond the dwarfing city's pale abortions, Because their thoughts had never been the prey Of care or gain : the green woods were their portions ; No sinking spirits told them they grew grey ; No fashion made them apes of her distortions : Simple they were, not savage ; and their rifles, Though very true, were not yet used for trifles.
Page 226 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour: The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Page 314 - Of all men, saving Sylla the Man-slayer, Who passes for in life and death most lucky, Of the great names which in our faces stare, The General...
Page 140 - 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"!
Page 315 - He was not all alone ; around him grew A sylvan tribe of children of the chase, Whose young, unwakened world was ever new ; Nor sword nor sorrow yet had left a trace On her unwrinkled brow, nor could you view A frown on nature's or on human face : The freeborn forest found and kept them free, And fresh as is a torrent or a tree. And tall, and strong, and swift of foot, were they, Beyond the...
Page 315 - T is true he shrank from men even of his nation, When they built up unto his darling trees, — He moved some hundred miles off, for a station Where there were fewer houses and more ease; The inconvenience of civilisation Is, that you neither can be pleased nor please; But where he met the individual man, He show'd himself as kind as mortal can.
Page 439 - John Quincy Adams, James A. Bayard, Henry Clay, Jonathan Russell, and Albert Gallatin...
Page 253 - Delaplace began to speak again, but was peremptorily interrupted ; and, at sight of Allen's drawn sword near his head, he gave up the garrison, ordering his men to be paraded without arms. Thus...
Page 265 - This committee consisted of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman and Robert R. Livingston.