Universal history, ancient and modern, 第 24 卷 |
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... coast , and more than 150 miles from the coast of Africa , con- temporary writers have not explained ; and their subsequent voyages thither seem not to have been undertaken in consequence of any public or regular plan for extending ...
... coast , and more than 150 miles from the coast of Africa , con- temporary writers have not explained ; and their subsequent voyages thither seem not to have been undertaken in consequence of any public or regular plan for extending ...
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... coast of Portugal , with some Venetian caravels , the vessel on board which he served took fire , together with one of the enemy's ships to which it was fast grappled . In this dreadful ex- tremity he threw himself into the sea , laid ...
... coast of Portugal , with some Venetian caravels , the vessel on board which he served took fire , together with one of the enemy's ships to which it was fast grappled . In this dreadful ex- tremity he threw himself into the sea , laid ...
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... coast they saw it covered with a multitude of people , whom the novelty of the spectacle had drawn to- gether , whose attitudes and gestures expressed wonder and astonishment at the strange objects which presented themselves to their ...
... coast they saw it covered with a multitude of people , whom the novelty of the spectacle had drawn to- gether , whose attitudes and gestures expressed wonder and astonishment at the strange objects which presented themselves to their ...
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... , and honoured them as sacred beings allied to heaven . : Columbus visited almost every harbour on the north coast of the island ; but , though delighted with the beauty of the scenes which every where presented with 16 AMERICA .
... , and honoured them as sacred beings allied to heaven . : Columbus visited almost every harbour on the north coast of the island ; but , though delighted with the beauty of the scenes which every where presented with 16 AMERICA .
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... coast of Cuba , he was entangled in a labyrinth formed by an incredible number of small islands , to which he gave the name of the Queen's Garden . In this unknown course he was retarded by contrary winds , assaulted with furious storms ...
... coast of Cuba , he was entangled in a labyrinth formed by an incredible number of small islands , to which he gave the name of the Queen's Garden . In this unknown course he was retarded by contrary winds , assaulted with furious storms ...
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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.