Discourse Delivered Before the New-York Historical Society: At Their Anniversary Meeting, 6th December, 1811James Eastburn, 1812 - 81 من الصفحات |
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... North America ; and they are the most elevated grounds in the United States from whence the waters run in every direction . The Ohio , the Delaware , the Susque- hanna , the Hudson and the St. Lawrence , almost all the great rivers ...
... North America ; and they are the most elevated grounds in the United States from whence the waters run in every direction . The Ohio , the Delaware , the Susque- hanna , the Hudson and the St. Lawrence , almost all the great rivers ...
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... North America , page 6-1 Colden , 37--1 Pow- nall on the Colonies , 235 , & c . - Smith's New - York , 58--179 , & c . - Douglass's Summary 11 , & c . - Pownall's Geographical description , & c . - Charlevoix His toire Generale de la ...
... North America , page 6-1 Colden , 37--1 Pow- nall on the Colonies , 235 , & c . - Smith's New - York , 58--179 , & c . - Douglass's Summary 11 , & c . - Pownall's Geographical description , & c . - Charlevoix His toire Generale de la ...
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... North America , by Baron Lahontan , Lord Lieutenant of the French colonies at Placentia , in Newfoundland , & c . " " 2 vols . printed London , 1708 . † 1 Colden , p . 11 . and were enabled to continue their career of victo . 16.
... North America , by Baron Lahontan , Lord Lieutenant of the French colonies at Placentia , in Newfoundland , & c . " " 2 vols . printed London , 1708 . † 1 Colden , p . 11 . and were enabled to continue their career of victo . 16.
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... America derives part of its population from that source by water , as it undoubtedly has from the North - east parts of Asia by land , with the exception of a narrow strait . But the Five Nations , notwithstanding their horrible cruelty ...
... America derives part of its population from that source by water , as it undoubtedly has from the North - east parts of Asia by land , with the exception of a narrow strait . But the Five Nations , notwithstanding their horrible cruelty ...
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... North as Hudson's Bay . The Mississipi did not form their Western limits : their power was felt in the most Southern ... America , 209 . # p . 728 . of dominion , the gratification of cupidity , and the 23.
... North as Hudson's Bay . The Mississipi did not form their Western limits : their power was felt in the most Southern ... America , 209 . # p . 728 . of dominion , the gratification of cupidity , and the 23.
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الصفحة 5 - That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona.
الصفحة 11 - The subjects of France inhabiting Canada, and others, shall hereafter give no hindrance or molestation to the Five Nations or cantons of Indians, subject to the dominion of Great Britain, nor to the other natives of America, who are friends to the same.
الصفحة 2 - IDE, of the said District, hath deposited in this office, the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit : " Inductive Grammar, designed for beginners. By an Instructer." In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States...
الصفحة 49 - Th' insulting tyrant, prancing o'er the field Strow'd with Rome's citizens, and drench'd in slaughter, His horse's hoofs wet with Patrician blood ! Oh, Portius ! is there not some chosen curse, Some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, Red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man, Who owes his greatness to his country's ruin ? PORTIUS.
الصفحة 18 - This string of wampum serves to forbid you, your children and grand-children to the latest posterity, for ever, meddling in land affairs; neither you nor any who shall descend from you, are ever hereafter to presume to sell any land...
الصفحة 55 - Soto, who landed with one thousand men in Florida in 1539, and penetrated a considerable distance into the interior of the country. He allotted the large fort for the use of the Spanish army; and after being extremely puzzled how to dispose of the small one in its vicinity, he at last assigned it to the swine, that generally, as he...
الصفحة 18 - For this purpose you are to preserve this string, in memory of what your uncles have this day given you in charge. We have some other business to transact with our brethren, and therefore depart the council, and consider what has been said to you.
الصفحة 40 - I may challenge the whole orations of Demosthenes and Cicero, and of any more eminent orator, if Europe has furnished any more eminent, to produce a single passage, superior to the speech of Logan, a Mingo chief, to Lord Dunmore, when governor of this state.
الصفحة 61 - Asia had thus exhausted its exuberant population by such a great migration, it would require a very long period of time to produce a cooperation of causes, sufficient to effect another. The first mighty stream of people that flowed into America, must have remained free from external pressure for ages.
الصفحة 57 - It is equally clear that they were not the work of the Indians. Until the Senecas, who are renowned for their national vanity, had seen the attention of the Americans attracted to these erections, and had invented the fabulous account of which I have spoken, the Indians of the present day did not pretend to know any thing about their origin. They were beyond the reach of all their traditions, and were lost in the abyss of unexplored antiquity.