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... chiefs , and accept- ing the same general modes of organization , based on consan- guinity , that have prevailed among all the more advanced fam- ilies of North American Indians . Montezuma was not an emperor , and had no palace , but ...
... chiefs , and accept- ing the same general modes of organization , based on consan- guinity , that have prevailed among all the more advanced fam- ilies of North American Indians . Montezuma was not an emperor , and had no palace , but ...
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... chief- an occurrence not at all improbable . In the account by Her- rera , written still later , the four have increased to twenty . Ac- cording to Diaz , Montezuma had 200 of his nobility on guard in the palace ; Cortez expands them to ...
... chief- an occurrence not at all improbable . In the account by Her- rera , written still later , the four have increased to twenty . Ac- cording to Diaz , Montezuma had 200 of his nobility on guard in the palace ; Cortez expands them to ...
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... chiefs were of their own choosing . After the most laborious inves- tigation ever made into the subject , Bandelier - in the twelfth report of the Peabody Institute - comes to the conclusion that " the social organization and mode of ...
... chiefs were of their own choosing . After the most laborious inves- tigation ever made into the subject , Bandelier - in the twelfth report of the Peabody Institute - comes to the conclusion that " the social organization and mode of ...
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... chief did not come from his garments ; it consisted in personal power of mind and prowess of body , and when these decayed , the command was gone . Such were the fierce , frank men who , as is claimed , stretched their wander- ings over ...
... chief did not come from his garments ; it consisted in personal power of mind and prowess of body , and when these decayed , the command was gone . Such were the fierce , frank men who , as is claimed , stretched their wander- ings over ...
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... chief nar- ratives being the saga of Erik the Red and the Karlsefne saga , the one having been written in Greenland , the other in Iceland . These have been repeatedly translated into various languages , and their most accessible form ...
... chief nar- ratives being the saga of Erik the Red and the Karlsefne saga , the one having been written in Greenland , the other in Iceland . These have been repeatedly translated into various languages , and their most accessible form ...
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Page 319 - The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.
Page 156 - ... covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic, for our better ordering and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the Colony unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.
Page 296 - Resolved, That a committee be appointed to prepare and digest the form of a confederation to be entered into between these Colonies"; which committee was appointed the next day, June 12, and consisted of a member from each Colony, namely: Mr.
Page 305 - England, sir, is a nation which still, I hope, respects, and formerly adored her freedom. The colonists emigrated from you when this part of your character was most predominant; and they took this bias and direction the moment they parted from your hands. They are, therefore, not only devoted to liberty, but to liberty according to English ideas and on English principles.
Page 156 - Virginia, do by these presents solemnly and mutually in the presence of God and one of another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic, for our better ordering and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid...
Page 155 - 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 163 - We will not say as the Separatists were wont to say at their leaving of England, Farewell, Babylon! Farewell, Rome ! but we will say, Farewell, dear England ! Farewell the Church of God in England, and all the Christian friends there...
Page 273 - You will think me transported with enthusiasm, but I am not. I am well aware of the toil, and blood and treasure, that it will cost...
Page 444 - I am in earnest. I will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch. AND I WILL BE HEARD.
Page 268 - This committee was appointed on the 1 1th, and consisted of Thomas Jefferson, of Virginia ; John Adams, of Massachusetts ; Benjamin Franklin, of Pennsylvania ; Roger Sherman, of Connecticut ; and Robert R. Livingston, of New York.