Letters and Dissertations Upon Sundry SubjectsWilliam Greer, printer, 1848 - 64 стор. |
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admiration ancient ANDRE's Arequipa ARNOLD assumed Atlantic believe birds blood British called certainly Chachapoyas Chagres character Christian coast command conquest considered CORTEZ cost death DIAZ dollars doubt England English Europe exists fact favor feet five FRANCIS MARKOE guano GUATEMOSIN historians honor human HUMBOLDT hundred Incas Indian Isthmus Isthmus of Panama J. C. PICKETT Jamestown JOHN ROLFE Judge kind labor lake Nicaragua leprosy less letter Lima manner maté ment merit Mexican Mexico miles militia millions Monody nation never opinion Pacific Panama Paraguay patriot perhaps Peru Peruvian PIZARRO POCAHONTAS possessed Powhatan PRESCOTT present probably quantity Quichua quipus rain reason remarkable respect river Rolfe ruin SANTA ANNA scarcely seems ship canal silver South America Spaniards Spanish suppose tain tea-drinking thing thousand tion tons traitor WADDY THOMPSON WASHINGTON WHEATON whilst whole word written
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Сторінка 52 - Towell to dry them: having feasted him after their best barbarous manner they could, a long consultation was held, but the conclusion was, two great stones were brought before Powhatan: then as many as could layd hands on him, dragged him to them, and thereon laid his head, and being ready with their clubs, to beate out his braines, Pocahontas the Kings dearest daughter, when no intreaty could prevaile, got his head in her armes, and laid her owne upon his to save him from death...
Сторінка 52 - Jamestown, with her wild train, she as freely frequented, as her father's habitation ; and, during the time of two or three years, she next under God was still the instrument to preserve this colony from death, famine, and utter confusion...
Сторінка 17 - Who were the builders of these American cities? My opinion on this question has been fully and freely expressed, "that they are not the works of people who have passed away, and whose history is lost, but of the same races who inhabited the country at the time of the Spanish conquest, or of some not very distant progenitors.
Сторінка 52 - Pocahontas the king's dearest daughter, when no entreaty could prevail, got his head in her arms, and laid her own upon his to save him from death: whereat the Emperor was contented he should live to make him hatchets and her bells, beads and copper; for they thought him as well of all occupations as themselves.
Сторінка 52 - George, it pleased God at Gravesend to take this young Lady to his mercie, 73. Pretty accident means "agreeable or satisfactory event or incident." where shee made not more sorrow for her unexpected death, than joy to the beholders, to heare and see her make so religious and godly an end.
Сторінка 52 - God thus to make her his instrument, or her extraordinary affection to our nation, I know not. But of this I am sure ; when her father, with the utmost of his...
Сторінка 52 - Emry, pretending the fault was his that had led them to their ends: but he quickly tooke such order with such Lawyers, that he layd them by the heeles till he sent some of them prisoners for England. Now ever once in foure or five dayes, Pocahontas with her attendants, brought him so much provision, that saved many of their lives, that els for all this had starved with hunger.
Сторінка 9 - American continents, in speaking more than five and thirty years ago on this subject, of which he has never since lost sight, uses the following emphatic expressions : " When a canal of communication shall unite the two oceans, the productions of Nootka sound and of China will be brought nearer to Europe and the United States by more than two thousand leagues. Then, and then only, will mighty changes be effected in the political state of Oriental Asia ; for this narrow tongue of land, against which...
Сторінка 54 - King's favorite daughter, — at that time a child of twelve or thirteen years of age, — finding that her piteous entreaties to save the life of Smith were unavailing, rushed forward, clasped his head in her arms, and laid her own upon it, determined either to save his life, or share his fate. Her generous and heroic conduct touched her father's iron heart, and the life of the captive was spared, to be employed in making hatchets for himself, and bells and beads for his daughter. The account of...
Сторінка 54 - ... loveliness, half concealed, as if in the bud, and rendered the more beautiful by the childlike simplicity with which her education in the savannahs of the New World had invested her. How could she fail to be caressed at court, and admired in the city ? As a wife, and as a young mother, her conduct was exemplary.