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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... west . Four men , and four only , of all the company survived to tell the story to the world . After a marvellous and pitiful pilgrimage of almost two thousand miles , full of every perilous and strange adventure , they actually reached ...
... west . Four men , and four only , of all the company survived to tell the story to the world . After a marvellous and pitiful pilgrimage of almost two thousand miles , full of every perilous and strange adventure , they actually reached ...
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... west , and the spreading valley of the other , at the south , without the notable peoples and provinces he looked for , he himself pressed doggedly onward for weary hundreds of miles , eastward and northeastward , to the far Missouri ...
... west , and the spreading valley of the other , at the south , without the notable peoples and provinces he looked for , he himself pressed doggedly onward for weary hundreds of miles , eastward and northeastward , to the far Missouri ...
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... West . Ardently , and yet soberly too , with a steady business sagacity as well as with high , imaginative hope , they obtained license of the crown and led the way towards new ports and new homes in America . They did all with ...
... West . Ardently , and yet soberly too , with a steady business sagacity as well as with high , imaginative hope , they obtained license of the crown and led the way towards new ports and new homes in America . They did all with ...
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... West Indies in the south , and it was the end of April before they saw at last the strange coasts for which they were bound . It was a lonely age in which to be four months upon the great sea , for " ships were rare , " only " from time ...
... West Indies in the south , and it was the end of April before they saw at last the strange coasts for which they were bound . It was a lonely age in which to be four months upon the great sea , for " ships were rare , " only " from time ...
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... houses there , and had planned to keep a last- ing colony . There had been Spaniards in the West Indies these hundred years and more , -ever since the days of Columbus himself ; and in 1526 Vasquez de 37 THE SWARMING OF THE ENGLISH.
... houses there , and had planned to keep a last- ing colony . There had been Spaniards in the West Indies these hundred years and more , -ever since the days of Columbus himself ; and in 1526 Vasquez de 37 THE SWARMING OF THE ENGLISH.
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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.