A History of Virginia from Its Discovery Till the Year 1781: With Biographical Sketches of All the Most Distinguished Characters that Occur in the Colonial, Revolutionary, Or Subsequent Period of Our HistoryJ. W. Campbell, 1813 - 310 من الصفحات |
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... English settlements on our coast . The author cannot dismiss his prefatory re- marks without tendering his thanks to those gentlemen who have endeavoured to aid him in the prosecution A 2 5 sess the inheritance transmitted by their ...
... English settlements on our coast . The author cannot dismiss his prefatory re- marks without tendering his thanks to those gentlemen who have endeavoured to aid him in the prosecution A 2 5 sess the inheritance transmitted by their ...
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... - sade . The attention of the wife of Granganameo ed by a passage in one of Barlow's letters to sir Walter Raleigh , preserved by Hackluyt , and also by the accounts of subsequent voyages . to the English is worthy of remark . It shows 9.
... - sade . The attention of the wife of Granganameo ed by a passage in one of Barlow's letters to sir Walter Raleigh , preserved by Hackluyt , and also by the accounts of subsequent voyages . to the English is worthy of remark . It shows 9.
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... English is worthy of remark . It shows , that hospitality is not confined to civilized na- tions , and that the rudeness of the savage may be mingled with the noblest traits of humanity . She ordered the boat of the English to be drawn ...
... English is worthy of remark . It shows , that hospitality is not confined to civilized na- tions , and that the rudeness of the savage may be mingled with the noblest traits of humanity . She ordered the boat of the English to be drawn ...
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... English during their stay on these coasts were very limited . They penetrated but a few leagues from the place of their first landing , and gained from the natives but little information respecting their country . No trace of this coast ...
... English during their stay on these coasts were very limited . They penetrated but a few leagues from the place of their first landing , and gained from the natives but little information respecting their country . No trace of this coast ...
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... English . This discovery produced so much satisfac- tion to queen Elizabeth , that she named the country Virginia , in honour , as has been sup- posed , of her own virginity . * Sir Richard Grenville with seven ships sailed from ...
... English . This discovery produced so much satisfac- tion to queen Elizabeth , that she named the country Virginia , in honour , as has been sup- posed , of her own virginity . * Sir Richard Grenville with seven ships sailed from ...
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