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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... amongst people of dis- tinction in London . The Lady Rebekah died on her visit at London , and left one son , who was handsomely educated , and when he grew into life , came out to Virginia , where he lived in affluence and ...
... amongst people of dis- tinction in London . The Lady Rebekah died on her visit at London , and left one son , who was handsomely educated , and when he grew into life , came out to Virginia , where he lived in affluence and ...
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... amongst the people . The order was carried into effect , and fifteen hundred pounds sterling were raised , and much more was expected to be raised ; this added to a grant of ten thousand acres of wild lands , laid the foundation of the ...
... amongst the people . The order was carried into effect , and fifteen hundred pounds sterling were raised , and much more was expected to be raised ; this added to a grant of ten thousand acres of wild lands , laid the foundation of the ...
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... amongst those Indians ; his rank appeared by his deportment ; he took his seat upon a long mat ; and four of his chief men seated themselves upon the other end of the mat ; the rest of the Indians stood at a respectful distance . The ...
... amongst those Indians ; his rank appeared by his deportment ; he took his seat upon a long mat ; and four of his chief men seated themselves upon the other end of the mat ; the rest of the Indians stood at a respectful distance . The ...
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... amongst the neighbouring chiefs , and invited them to a grand festival . At this festival he collected fif- teen hundred warriors , who , at a given signal at a given time , were to set fire to the governor's house , and mur- der the ...
... amongst the neighbouring chiefs , and invited them to a grand festival . At this festival he collected fif- teen hundred warriors , who , at a given signal at a given time , were to set fire to the governor's house , and mur- der the ...
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... amongst the colonies . Before we pursue the rise and progress of Carolina , we will bring forward the colony of Virginia . CHAPTER III . VIRGINIA CONTINUED FROM THE DISSOLUTION OF THEIR THE UNITED STATES . 29 Religious persecution ...
... amongst the colonies . Before we pursue the rise and progress of Carolina , we will bring forward the colony of Virginia . CHAPTER III . VIRGINIA CONTINUED FROM THE DISSOLUTION OF THEIR THE UNITED STATES . 29 Religious persecution ...
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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.