Wars of the coloniesSheldon & Company, 1863 |
Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 115 - King Philip desire to let you understand that he could not come to the Court, for Tom, his interpreter, has a pain in his back, that he could not travel so far, and Philip sister is very sik.
Página 39 - First, let nothing in this world tempt you to wrong your conscience ; I charge you do nothing against your conscience ; so will you keep peace at home, which will be a feast to you in a day of trouble.
Página 87 - ... perform the duties so well. The natives possess, in as high a degree at least as Europeans, all those qualifications which are requisite for the discharge of the inferior duties in which they are employed. They are in general better accountants, more patient and laborious, more intimately acquainted with the state of the country and the manners and customs of the inhabitants, and are altogether more efficient men of business.
Página 264 - ... to open upon the city, he sent out a flag of truce, with proposals to surrender the city on certain conditions. The conditions which he proposed, together with the answers of the English general, were substantially as follows : PROPOSED CAPITULATION. ARTICLE 1. — Monsieur De Ramsey requires that in giving up the city the garrison shall be allowed to retire with honor, and to take with them their arms, baggage, and six pieces of cannon, and to march without molestation by the shortest road to...
Página 16 - ... progress of the colonies in wealth and population, which forms the subject of the present volume. NUMBER OF THE COLONIES. The number of colonies as finally and permanently organized was thirteen. The following is a list of them, with date of the first settlement of each : Virginia 1607 New- York 1614 Massachusetts 1620 New Hampshire .... 1623 New Jersey 1624 Delaware 1627 Maryland 1633 Connecticut ..... 1635 Rhode Island 1635 North Carolina .... 1650 South Carolina .... 1670 Pennsylvania 1682...
Página 153 - Meskousing; it is very broad, with a sandy bottom, forming many shallows, which render navigation very difficult. It is full of vine-clad islets. On the banks appear fertile lands diversified with wood, prairie, and hill. Here you find oaks, walnut, whitewood, and another kind of tree with branches armed with long thorns. We saw no small game or fish, but deer and moose in considerable numbers.
Página 145 - ... course of the great river, and what direction we should take when we got to it. " Above all, I put our voyage under the protection of the Blessed Virgin Immaculate, promising her, that if she did us the grace to discover the great river, I would give it the name of Conception; and that I would also give that name to the first mission which I should establish among these new nations, as I have actually done among the Illinois.
Página 120 - Pond, wilfully and of sett purpose, and of mallice fore thought, and by force and armes, murder John Sassamon, an other Indian, by laying violent hands on him, and striking him, or twisting his necke vntill hee was dead; and to hyde and conceale this theire said murder, att the tyme and place aforesaid, did cast his dead body through a hole of the iyce into the said pond.
Página 131 - ... shot the enemy through the body, dead, with a brace of bullets ; and approaching the place where he lay, upon search, it appeared to be King Philip, to their no small amazement and great joy. This seasonable prey was soon divided. They cut off his head and hands and conveyed them to Rhode Island, and quartered his body and hung it upon four trees.
Página 144 - ... traced a map of all the new country, marking down the rivers on which we were to sail, the names of the nations and places through which we were to pass, the course of the great river, and what direction we should take when we got to it. " Above all, I put our voyage under the protection of the Blessed Virgin Immaculate, promising her, that if she did us the grace to discover the great river, I would give it the name of Conception...