Universal history, ancient and modern, 第 24 卷 |
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第 4 頁
... attempting new discoveries . At length , however , the period arrived when Providence decreed that men were to pass the limits within which they had so long been con- fined , and open to themselves a more ample field , wherein to ...
... attempting new discoveries . At length , however , the period arrived when Providence decreed that men were to pass the limits within which they had so long been con- fined , and open to themselves a more ample field , wherein to ...
第 5 頁
... attempts . The study of these soothed and inflamed his favourite passion ; and while he contemplated the maps , and read the descriptions of the new countries seen by his father - in - law , his impatience to visit them became ...
... attempts . The study of these soothed and inflamed his favourite passion ; and while he contemplated the maps , and read the descriptions of the new countries seen by his father - in - law , his impatience to visit them became ...
第 11 頁
... attempted or deemed possible , and their prospect of success seemed to be as distant as ever . These reflections occurred often to men who had no other object or occupation than to reflect on the intention and circumstances of their ...
... attempted or deemed possible , and their prospect of success seemed to be as distant as ever . These reflections occurred often to men who had no other object or occupation than to reflect on the intention and circumstances of their ...
第 20 頁
... attempted and achieved , he retired to his cabin , and wrote upon parchment a short account of the voyage which he had made , of the course which he had taken , of the situation and riches of the coun- tries which he had discovered ...
... attempted and achieved , he retired to his cabin , and wrote upon parchment a short account of the voyage which he had made , of the course which he had taken , of the situation and riches of the coun- tries which he had discovered ...
第 21 頁
... attempted in any former age . On the even- ing of the same day he had the satisfaction of see- ing the Pinta enter the harbour . The first care of Columbus was to inform the king , and queen of his arrival and success . Ferdi- nand nand ...
... attempted in any former age . On the even- ing of the same day he had the satisfaction of see- ing the Pinta enter the harbour . The first care of Columbus was to inform the king , and queen of his arrival and success . Ferdi- nand nand ...
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第 280 頁 - Filling a glass, he turned to them and said, "with a heart full of love and gratitude, I now take leave of you ; I most devoutly wish that your latter days may be as prosperous and happy, as your former ones have been glorious and honorable.
第 255 頁 - For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies...
第 244 頁 - We are reduced to the alternative of choosing an unconditional submission to the tyranny of irritated ministers, or resistance by force. The latter is our choice. We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery.
第 240 頁 - HANCOCK, whose offences are of too flagitious a nature to admit of any other consideration than that of condign punishment.
第 12 頁 - As they proceeded, the indications of approaching land seemed to be more certain, and excited hope in proportion. The birds began to appear in flocks, making towards the south-west. Columbus, in imitation of the Portuguese navigators, who had been guided, in several of their discoveries, by the motion of birds...
第 282 頁 - Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of action, and bidding an affectionate farewell to this august body, under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life.
第 14 頁 - ... which had created him so much unnecessary disquiet, and had so often obstructed the prosecution of his well-concerted plan; and passing, in the warmth of their admiration, from one extreme to another, they now pronounced the man, whom they had so lately reviled and threatened, to be a person inspired by heaven with sagacity and fortitude more than human, in order to accomplish a design so far beyond the ideas and conception of all former ages.
第 218 頁 - As a remarkable instance of this, I may point out to the public that heroic youth, Colonel Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has hitherto preserved in so signal a manner for some important service to his country.
第 256 頁 - In every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms. Our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
第 254 頁 - He has refused, for a long time after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected ; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large, for their exercise ; the State remaining, in the mean time, exposed to all the danger of invasion from without, and convulsions within.