Library of American History: History of the United StatesAmerican History Society, 1900 |
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Page 48
... four centuries speculation has been rife respecting the origin of the races of the New World . One hypothesis after another has been started and passed like a wave over the intelligence of the age , only to give place to the next ...
... four centuries speculation has been rife respecting the origin of the races of the New World . One hypothesis after another has been started and passed like a wave over the intelligence of the age , only to give place to the next ...
Page 49
... four centuries ago has been greatly exaggerated . Difference there certainly was in manners , customs and laws . Difference we may prop- erly allow in the average grade of civilization . But the most striking particular in which the ...
... four centuries ago has been greatly exaggerated . Difference there certainly was in manners , customs and laws . Difference we may prop- erly allow in the average grade of civilization . But the most striking particular in which the ...
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... four centuries ago was poor in those treasures which excite the ambitions and lusts of men . In many parts of these continents rich mines of gold and silver existed . Many of the gulf waters abounded in pearls . It were long to ...
... four centuries ago was poor in those treasures which excite the ambitions and lusts of men . In many parts of these continents rich mines of gold and silver existed . Many of the gulf waters abounded in pearls . It were long to ...
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... four months , he came , in March of 1520 , to the Ladrones , midway between Australia and Japan . Thence he reached the Philippines , and was there killed in a battle with the natives . The fleet , however , continued to sail westward ...
... four months , he came , in March of 1520 , to the Ladrones , midway between Australia and Japan . Thence he reached the Philippines , and was there killed in a battle with the natives . The fleet , however , continued to sail westward ...
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... four men , who under Lieutenant de Vaca reached the village of San Miguel on the Pacific coast , and were taken thence to the city of Mexico . A new expedition was planned in 1537 , and put under direction of the cavalier Ferdinand de ...
... four men , who under Lieutenant de Vaca reached the village of San Miguel on the Pacific coast , and were taken thence to the city of Mexico . A new expedition was planned in 1537 , and put under direction of the cavalier Ferdinand de ...
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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.