History of the Virginia Company of London

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J. Munsell, 1869 - Virginia - 432 pages

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Page 14 - And cheerfully at sea Success you still entice To get the pearl and gold, And ours to hold Virginia, Earth's only paradise.
Page 11 - You must observe if you can, whether the river on which you plant doth spring out of mountains or out of lakes. If it be out of any lake, the passage to the other sea will be more easy, and [it] is like enough, that out of the same lake you shall find some spring which run[s] the contrary way towards the East India Sea...
Page ix - A TRUE DECLARATION of the ESTATE of the COLONIE in VIRGINIA, with a Confutation of such Scandalous Reports as haue tended to the Disgrace of so Worthy an Enterprise, published by aduise and direction of the Councell of Virginia, sm.
Page vii - As ever the sun shined on ; temperate and full of all sorts of excellent viands : wild boar is as common there as our tamest bacon is here ; venison as mutton. And then you shall live freely there, without sargeants, or courtiers, or lawyers, or intelligencers [only a few industrious Scots perhaps, who indeed are dispersed over the face of the whole earth.
Page 14 - To the Virginian ^ ^ Voyage You brave heroic minds, Worthy your country's name, That honour still pursue; Go and subdue, Whilst loitering hinds Lurk here at home with shame.
Page 55 - The Governor and Company of the City of London for the Plantation of the Somers Islands...
Page 14 - Frighting the wide heaven. And in regions far, Such heroes bring ye forth As those from whom we came; And plant our name Under that star Not known unto our North.
Page 10 - For if you sit down near the entrance, except it be in some island that is strong by nature, an enemy that may approach you on even ground, may easily pull you out ; and if he be driven to seek you a hundred miles...
Page 21 - ... entent (as I gathered) to haue stirred the discontented company against me. I tould him privately, in Mr Gosnold's tent, that indeede I had caused half a pint of pease to be sodden...
Page 11 - ... this you must do before that they perceive you mean to plant among them, for not being sure how your own seed corn will prosper the first year, to avoid the danger of famine, use and endeavour to store yourselves of the country corn.

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