A Junior Class History of the United States: To which are Added the Declaration of Independence, and the Constitution of the United States, with Questions, Exercises, Copious Notes, Etc. ...E. Maynard, 1890 - 307 páginas |
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... coast of Africa , hoping to be able , if they could sail far enough , to find a way around it , and thus render the passage of the Isthmus of Suez un- necessary . The foremost in encouraging this undertaking was Prince Henry of Portugal ...
... coast of Africa , hoping to be able , if they could sail far enough , to find a way around it , and thus render the passage of the Isthmus of Suez un- necessary . The foremost in encouraging this undertaking was Prince Henry of Portugal ...
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... coast of Darien ( 1502 ) . 26. Columbus , poor and neglected , died in Spain in 1506 , being about seventy years of age . The king , who had treated him so ungratefully while he lived , gave him a pompous funeral . * It is sad to think ...
... coast of Darien ( 1502 ) . 26. Columbus , poor and neglected , died in Spain in 1506 , being about seventy years of age . The king , who had treated him so ungratefully while he lived , gave him a pompous funeral . * It is sad to think ...
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... coast from Labrador to Chesapeake Bay . 2. Verrazzani's Voyage . - The French , some time after this , sent out ships to make discoveries in the New World . Under an Italian navigator , named Verrazzani ( ver - rat- " Their condition ...
... coast from Labrador to Chesapeake Bay . 2. Verrazzani's Voyage . - The French , some time after this , sent out ships to make discoveries in the New World . Under an Italian navigator , named Verrazzani ( ver - rat- " Their condition ...
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... coast of South America . Sailing north as far as the 42d parallel , he stopped at one of the harbors - probably San Francisco Bay - to refit ( 1579 ) ; and thence steered across the Pacific , returning by that route to England ( 1580 ) ...
... coast of South America . Sailing north as far as the 42d parallel , he stopped at one of the harbors - probably San Francisco Bay - to refit ( 1579 ) ; and thence steered across the Pacific , returning by that route to England ( 1580 ) ...
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... coast of Carolina , and the voy- agers landed on Roanoke Island . They found the region very de- lightful ; and , on their return , told the queen of its beauty and fertility , who , therefore , said it should be called Virginia , for ...
... coast of Carolina , and the voy- agers landed on Roanoke Island . They found the region very de- lightful ; and , on their return , told the queen of its beauty and fertility , who , therefore , said it should be called Virginia , for ...
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Página 9 - He has constrained our fellow-citizens, taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.
Página 8 - 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 meantime, exposed to all the danger of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Página 248 - MARYLAND Samuel Chase William Paca Thomas Stone Charles Carroll, of Carrollton VIRGINIA George Wythe Richard Henry Lee Thomas Jefferson Benjamin Harrison Thomas Nelson, Jr. Francis Lightfoot Lee Carter Braxton NORTH CAROLINA William Hooper Joseph Hewes John Penn SOUTH CAROLINA Edward Rutledge Thomas Heyward, Jr. Thomas Lynch, Jr. Arthur Middleton GEORGIA Button Gwinnett Lyman Hall George Walton...
Página 97 - I give these books for the founding of a college in this colony...
Página 10 - Francis Hopkinson John Hart Abraham Clark PENNSYLVANIA Robert Morris Benjamin Rush Benjamin Franklin John Morton George Clymer James Smith George...
Página 152 - ... first in peace, first in war, and first in the hearts of his countrymen...
Página 198 - Yours of this date, proposing armistice and appointment of Commissioners to settle terms of capitulation, is just received. No terms except an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works.
Página 140 - 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.
Página 76 - The various terrors of that horrid shore; Those blazing suns that dart a downward ray, And fiercely shed intolerable day; Those matted woods where birds forget to sing.
Página 101 - Six years after the arrival of Winthrop, the general court voted a sum, equal to a year's rate of the whole colony, towards the erection of a college. In 1638, John Harvard, who arrived in the bay only to fall a victim to the most wasting disease of the climate, desiring to...