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... secure them for Spain . This gave him a chance to settle forever the question of the earth's rotundity . As long as America was supposed to be Asia , Columbus was thought to have settled it . But now it began to look as if America had ...
... secure them for Spain . This gave him a chance to settle forever the question of the earth's rotundity . As long as America was supposed to be Asia , Columbus was thought to have settled it . But now it began to look as if America had ...
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... secure their friendship ; they intermarried with them , and adopted many of their ways . The North American Indians . Nevertheless in one quarter the French offended the Indians , and raised up for themselves a powerful enemy who had ...
... secure their friendship ; they intermarried with them , and adopted many of their ways . The North American Indians . Nevertheless in one quarter the French offended the Indians , and raised up for themselves a powerful enemy who had ...
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... secure the priceless treasure of self - government , were likely to insist upon keeping what they had won at such great cost . Quakers in Boston . - The Puritans , however , were very far from being always in the right . We have seen ...
... secure the priceless treasure of self - government , were likely to insist upon keeping what they had won at such great cost . Quakers in Boston . - The Puritans , however , were very far from being always in the right . We have seen ...
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... insisted upon naming it Pennsylvania . Of all the colonies this was the only one that had no sea - coast , and as Penn wanted free access to the ocean he proceeded to secure the proprietorship 48 DISCOVERY AND COLONIZATION.
... insisted upon naming it Pennsylvania . Of all the colonies this was the only one that had no sea - coast , and as Penn wanted free access to the ocean he proceeded to secure the proprietorship 48 DISCOVERY AND COLONIZATION.
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... secure the proprietorship of Delaware , which for some years had been an appendage of New York . Throughout the remainder of the colonial period Pennsyl- vania and Delaware continued under the same proprietary govern- ment , though ...
... secure the proprietorship of Delaware , which for some years had been an appendage of New York . Throughout the remainder of the colonial period Pennsyl- vania and Delaware continued under the same proprietary govern- ment , though ...
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Page 132 - Then and there was the first scene of the first act of opposition to the arbitrary claims of Great Britain. Then and there the child Independence was born.
Page 120 - 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 521 - I never mean, unless some particular circumstances should compel me to it, to possess another slave by purchase, it being among my first wishes to see some plan adopted by which slavery, in this country, may be abolished by law.
Page 148 - ... we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon, until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained ; we must fight ! I repeat it, Sir, we must fight ! An appeal to arms, and to the God of hosts, is all that is left us.
Page 134 - Commons of Great Britain in Parliament assembled, had, hath and of right ought to have, full power and authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and validity to bind the colonies and people of America, subjects of the Crown of Great Britain in all cases whatsoever.
Page 96 - As a remarkable instance of this, I may point out to the public that heroic youth, Colonel Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has hitherto preserved in so signal a manner for some important service to his country.
Page 75 - I am to proceed to Niagara; and, having taken that. to Frontenac, if the season will allow time ; and I suppose it will, for Duquesne can hardly detain me above three or four days; and then I see nothing that can obstruct my march to Niagara.
Page 142 - When your lordships look at the papers transmitted us from America, when you consider their decency, firmness, and wisdom, you cannot but respect their cause, and wish to make it your own.
Page 31 - To the end the body of the commons may be preserved of honest and good men, it was ordered and agreed, that, for the time to come, no man shall be admitted to the freedom of this body politic, but such as are members of some of the churches within the limits of the same.
Page 141 - To these grievous acts and measures Americans cannot submit : but in hopes their fellow subjects in Great Britain will, on a revision of them, restore us to that state, in which both countries found happiness and prosperity, we have, for the present, only resolved to pursue the following peaceable measures : 1.