A Complete History of the United States of America: Embracing the Whole Period from the Discovery of North America, Down to the Year 1820 ...The author, 1821 |
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A Complete History of the United States of America: Embracing the Whole ... Frederick Butler Affichage du livre entier - 1821 |
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acres administration affairs Albany America amongst Andross appointed arrived assembly became bill called Canada Cape Henlopen Carolina carried charter chief church claimed colony commenced commissioners consent continued court crown Delaware Delaware Bay distress Dongan Duke of York Dutch enemy England English entered erected ernor Five Nations freemen French friends frontiers governor granted hath hundred Indians inhabitants James justice king Lake land laws Leisler liberty Lord Baltimore lords proprietors lordship majesty Maryland ment miles New-England New-Jersey New-York Nicholas Moore Nonville noticed Onondagas party passed patent peace peace of Breda Pennsylvania pounds prisoners proprietary province province of Pennsylvania Provincial Council Quakers queen quit-rents religion religious returned revenge river savage sent session settled settlement settlers shew ships soon spirit tion trade treaty tribes Virginia warriors William Penn
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Page 313 - Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people, whose breasts he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue.
Page 71 - I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever; that considering numbers, nature and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation is among possible events; that it may become probable by supernatural interference! The Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in such a contest.
Page 70 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other.
Page 314 - The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government, as sores do to the strength of the human body.
Page 70 - The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to the worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities.
Page 62 - The Treasurer and company of Adventurers and Planters of the City of London for the first colony in Virginia...
Page 427 - That so soon as it pleaseth'God that the abovesaid persons arrive there, a certain quantity of land, or ground plat, shall be laid out, for a large town or city, in the most convenient place, upon the river, for health and navigation; and every purchaser and adventurer shall, by lot, have so much land therein as will answer to the proportion, which he hath bought, or taken up, upon rent...
Page 308 - From the conclusion of this war we shall be going down hill. It will not then be necessary to resort every moment to the people for support. They will be forgotten, therefore, and their rights disregarded. They will forget themselves, but in the sole faculty of making money, and will never think of uniting to effect a due respect for their rights.
Page 409 - Their chief speaker immediately put himself into an attitude of oratory, and, with a pomp suited to what he conceived the elevation of his subject...
Page 81 - But on whatever occasion they may have been made, they are of considerable notoriety among the Indians : for a party passing, about thirty years ago, through the part of the country where this barrow is, went through the woods directly to it, without any instructions or inquiry ; and having staid about it some time, with expressions which were construed to be those of sorrow, they returned to the high road, which they had left about half a dozen miles to pay this visit, and pursued their journey.