The Heroes of Young AmericaEdward Stanford, 1877 - Всего страниц: 318 |
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... tribe was once found praying to the skeleton of a horse . The fierce bloodhounds too that the Spaniards led about with them , played almost as great a part in the conquest as the sharp weapons and shining mail against which the savage ...
... tribe was once found praying to the skeleton of a horse . The fierce bloodhounds too that the Spaniards led about with them , played almost as great a part in the conquest as the sharp weapons and shining mail against which the savage ...
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... tribes , here and there , who used poisoned arrows , had any fair chance of resisting whatever claims might be made upon them by so mighty invaders . For the most part , the Spaniards encoun- tered no enemies more to be feared than the ...
... tribes , here and there , who used poisoned arrows , had any fair chance of resisting whatever claims might be made upon them by so mighty invaders . For the most part , the Spaniards encoun- tered no enemies more to be feared than the ...
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... tribe , with whom they began proceedings by reading the royal proclamation setting forth that there was one God , one Pope , and one King of Castile , and requiring all people to give their assent thereto on pain of war . The puzzled ...
... tribe , with whom they began proceedings by reading the royal proclamation setting forth that there was one God , one Pope , and one King of Castile , and requiring all people to give their assent thereto on pain of war . The puzzled ...
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... tribes died under their cruel tasks ; whole islands were depopulated . Human life was held so cheap that when a gang of slaves were going along , fastened together by a chain , and one fell exhausted on the ground , his head would be ...
... tribes died under their cruel tasks ; whole islands were depopulated . Human life was held so cheap that when a gang of slaves were going along , fastened together by a chain , and one fell exhausted on the ground , his head would be ...
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... these names correctly given . The awe inspired by the white men was passing way . The small and scattered tribes , knowing no other weapons than INDIAN PLOTS . 5 55 clubs and bows , had 54 THE FIRST ENGLISH PLANTERS .
... these names correctly given . The awe inspired by the white men was passing way . The small and scattered tribes , knowing no other weapons than INDIAN PLOTS . 5 55 clubs and bows , had 54 THE FIRST ENGLISH PLANTERS .
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Стр. 269 - And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously, by licensing and prohibiting, to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter?
Стр. 143 - It is a shameful and unblessed thing to take the scum of people and wicked condemned men to be the people with whom you plant; and not only so, but it spoileth the plantation; for they will ever live like rogues, and not fall to work, but be lazy, and do mischief, and spend victuals, and be quickly weary, and then certify over to their country to the discredit of the plantation.
Стр. 161 - ... his soldiers with him ; that upon no danger would send them where he would not lead them himself ; that would never see us want what he either had, or could by any means get us ; that would rather want than borrow, or starve than not pay ; that loved actions more than words, and hated falsehood and cozenage more than death ; whose adventures were our lives, and whose loss our deaths.
Стр. 91 - Not long after, early in a morning a great fire was made in a long house, and a mat spread on the one side, as on the other; on the one they caused him to sit, and all the guard went out of the house, and presently came skipping in a great grim fellow: all painted over with coal, mingled with oil, and many snakes
Стр. 143 - To the very moment that he bade me tell it; Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field, Of hair-breadth 'scapes i' the imminent deadly breach, Of being taken by the insolent foe And sold to slavery...
Стр. 49 - We were entertained with all love and kindness, and with as much bounty (after their manner) as they could possibly devise. We found the people most gentle, loving, and faithful, void of all guile and treason, and such as live after the manner of the golden age.
Стр. 206 - ... 4. If any did unjustly war against him, we would aid him. If any did war against us, he should aid us. 5. He should send to his neighboring confederates to certify them of this, that they might not wrong us; but might be likewise comprised in the conditions of Peace. 6. That when their men came to...
Стр. 254 - Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land. 10 The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars.
Стр. 251 - THE place where we live is a wilderness wood, Where grass is much wanting that's fruitful and good: Our mountains and hills and our valleys below Being commonly...
Стр. 93 - Ceremony ; the meaning whereof they told him, was to know if he intended them well or no. The circle of meale signified their Country, the circles of corne the bounds of the Sea ; and the stickes his Country.