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... thousand years ; " but it is not so easy to fix a limit . To be sure , some evidences of antiquity that are well established in Europe are as yet wanting in America , or at least imperfectly proved . In the French bone - caves there ...
... thousand years ; " but it is not so easy to fix a limit . To be sure , some evidences of antiquity that are well established in Europe are as yet wanting in America , or at least imperfectly proved . In the French bone - caves there ...
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... thousand maravedis that their Highnesses had promised to him who should make the first discovery , he would give , for his part , a velvet jerkin . " It seems like putting some confusion into men's minds to set them thinking at one and ...
... thousand maravedis that their Highnesses had promised to him who should make the first discovery , he would give , for his part , a velvet jerkin . " It seems like putting some confusion into men's minds to set them thinking at one and ...
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... thousands as a guard of honor in their march through the country ; and tribes where the people fetched all the goods from their houses , and laid them before the strangers passing by , praying them , as visitors from heaven , to accept ...
... thousands as a guard of honor in their march through the country ; and tribes where the people fetched all the goods from their houses , and laid them before the strangers passing by , praying them , as visitors from heaven , to accept ...
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... thousand or twelve hundred men . A hundred cavalrymen hovered near them , but quickly retreated ; the thousand Englishmen divided in two portions , assaulted the two city gates , carried them easily , and then reunited in the market ...
... thousand or twelve hundred men . A hundred cavalrymen hovered near them , but quickly retreated ; the thousand Englishmen divided in two portions , assaulted the two city gates , carried them easily , and then reunited in the market ...
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... thousand crowns " more for the abbey , and because there was no money left with which to redeem the castle , it was blown up by the English . Drake afterwards took St. Augus- tine , already settled by the Spaniards , and after sailing ...
... thousand crowns " more for the abbey , and because there was no money left with which to redeem the castle , it was blown up by the English . Drake afterwards took St. Augus- tine , already settled by the Spaniards , and after sailing ...
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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.