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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... settlement " " PAGE FROM BRADFORD'S " HISTORY OF PLIMOTH PLAN- TATION , " SHOWING BRADFORD'S HANDWRITING . - The original manuscript , now deposited in the State Library of Massachusetts , is a folio volume measuring 111⁄2 by 7 % inches ...
... settlement " " PAGE FROM BRADFORD'S " HISTORY OF PLIMOTH PLAN- TATION , " SHOWING BRADFORD'S HANDWRITING . - The original manuscript , now deposited in the State Library of Massachusetts , is a folio volume measuring 111⁄2 by 7 % inches ...
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... settlement in America begins , the breathless , eager stir of the Elizabethan age is over , and the sober , contentious seventeenth century has come , with its perplexed politics , its schis- matic creeds , its scheming rivalries in ...
... settlement in America begins , the breathless , eager stir of the Elizabethan age is over , and the sober , contentious seventeenth century has come , with its perplexed politics , its schis- matic creeds , its scheming rivalries in ...
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... settlement in a wilderness , -hard , un- romantic , prodigious , -practicable only by strong - willed labor and dogged perseverance to the end . While North America waited , South America prodi- gally afforded the spirit of the age what ...
... settlement in a wilderness , -hard , un- romantic , prodigious , -practicable only by strong - willed labor and dogged perseverance to the end . While North America waited , South America prodi- gally afforded the spirit of the age what ...
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... settlements on the Pacific , eight years after that gallant landing at Apalache . In 1539 Hernando de Soto repeated the folly . He brought to the Bay of Espiritu Santo nine vessels , with near six hundred men and more than two hundred ...
... settlements on the Pacific , eight years after that gallant landing at Apalache . In 1539 Hernando de Soto repeated the folly . He brought to the Bay of Espiritu Santo nine vessels , with near six hundred men and more than two hundred ...
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... the St. Lawrence , in the name of his French master , as far as the present site of Montreal ; and in 1541 planted a rude fort upon the heights of Quebec . In 1562-64 settlements of French. 18 A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
... the St. Lawrence , in the name of his French master , as far as the present site of Montreal ; and in 1541 planted a rude fort upon the heights of Quebec . In 1562-64 settlements of French. 18 A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
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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.