A History of the American People: By Woodrow Wilson ... Illustrated with Portraits, Maps, Plans, Facsimiles, Rare Prints, Contemporary Views, Etc. ..., Band 1Harper & Bros., 1902 |
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... less romantic , - a fountain of youth , untouched mines of precious ore , or waters floored with priceless pearls . The discovery of the New World had drawn Europe when she was most credulous into a realm of dreams . The Revival of ...
... less romantic , - a fountain of youth , untouched mines of precious ore , or waters floored with priceless pearls . The discovery of the New World had drawn Europe when she was most credulous into a realm of dreams . The Revival of ...
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... less sea - weather . It had been a century of preparation , a century of vast schemes but half accomplished , of dar- ing but not steadfast enterprise , of sudden sallies of How Bons JOHN HAWKINS audacious policy , but not of cautious ...
... less sea - weather . It had been a century of preparation , a century of vast schemes but half accomplished , of dar- ing but not steadfast enterprise , of sudden sallies of How Bons JOHN HAWKINS audacious policy , but not of cautious ...
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... less church than formerly . When Henry VIII . destroyed the monasteries and ap- propriated their means and revenues , he secu- larized the government of England , and in part Sovepos SIGNATURE OF HENRY VIII . English society too ...
... less church than formerly . When Henry VIII . destroyed the monasteries and ap- propriated their means and revenues , he secu- larized the government of England , and in part Sovepos SIGNATURE OF HENRY VIII . English society too ...
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... less boldly in at the capes , however ; and the tired men on board thought the shores of the vast bay within very beautiful , with their " fair meadows and goodly tall trees , " and their " fresh waters running through the woods ...
... less boldly in at the capes , however ; and the tired men on board thought the shores of the vast bay within very beautiful , with their " fair meadows and goodly tall trees , " and their " fresh waters running through the woods ...
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... less spring of 1610 , as Governor and Captain General for the company . But it needed a radically new policy to give real life to such an enterprise ; and that it did not get till Sir Thomas Dale came the next year ( 1611 ) , af- ter ...
... less spring of 1610 , as Governor and Captain General for the company . But it needed a radically new policy to give real life to such an enterprise ; and that it did not get till Sir Thomas Dale came the next year ( 1611 ) , af- ter ...
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Seite xxvi - Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific — and all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise — Silent, upon a peak in Darien.
Seite 7 - Shall I make spirits fetch me what I please, Resolve me of all ambiguities, Perform what desperate enterprise I will? I'll have them fly to India for gold, Ransack the ocean for orient pearl, And search all corners of the new-found world For pleasant fruits and princely delicates...
Seite 300 - I have led the greatest colony into America that ever any man did upon a private credit; and the most prosperous beginnings that ever were in it, are to be found among us.
Seite 140 - Cotton) had in the hearts of the people, that whatever he delivered in the pulpit was soon put into an Order of Court, if of a civil, or set up as a practice in the church, if of an ecclesiastical concernment.
Seite 34 - I) your sheep that were wont to be so meek and tame, and so small eaters, now, as I hear say, be become so great devourers and so wild, that they eat up, and swallow down the very men themselves. They consume, destroy, and devour whole fields, houses, and cities.
Seite 194 - ... at New Haven, in the evening, the form of the keel of a ship with three masts, to which were suddenly added all the tackling and sails, and presently after, upon the top of the poop, a man standing with one hand akimbo under his left side, and in his right hand a sword stretched out towards the sea.
Seite 140 - Democracy I do not conceive that ever God did ordain as a fit government either for church or commonwealth. If the people be governors, who shall be governed?
Seite 114 - ... the best part is always the least, and of that best part the wiser part is always the lesser.