A Pictorial History of America: Embracing Both the Northern and Southern Portions of the New WorldHouse & Brown, 1850 - 884 էջ |
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... nearly separated into two portions by the narrow Isthmus of Panama . It will be more proper , therefore , to describe North and South America separately . North America extends from 80 to 70 ° north latitude , and from 55 ° to 168 ...
... nearly separated into two portions by the narrow Isthmus of Panama . It will be more proper , therefore , to describe North and South America separately . North America extends from 80 to 70 ° north latitude , and from 55 ° to 168 ...
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... nearly destitute of wood , but covered with a high herbage during a part of the year . 3. The basin of the Amazon , a vast plain , with a rich soil and a humid climate , and exhibiting a surprising luxuriance of vegetation . 4. The ...
... nearly destitute of wood , but covered with a high herbage during a part of the year . 3. The basin of the Amazon , a vast plain , with a rich soil and a humid climate , and exhibiting a surprising luxuriance of vegetation . 4. The ...
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... nearly to the tropic . The eastern half of this immense territory is occupied by the Anglo - American race ; the western is still in possession of the aborigines , who however are daily receding and disappearing before the rapid ...
... nearly to the tropic . The eastern half of this immense territory is occupied by the Anglo - American race ; the western is still in possession of the aborigines , who however are daily receding and disappearing before the rapid ...
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... nearly four miles , they came to a town of about four thousand inhabi- tants , situated in a spacious and fertile valley . At the appearance COLUMBUS PURSUES HIS DISCOVEries . 51 of the Spaniards , 50 SPANISH DISCOVERIES AND CONQUESTS .
... nearly four miles , they came to a town of about four thousand inhabi- tants , situated in a spacious and fertile valley . At the appearance COLUMBUS PURSUES HIS DISCOVEries . 51 of the Spaniards , 50 SPANISH DISCOVERIES AND CONQUESTS .
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... nearly as many citizens who perished by the hands of the execu- tioner , as by those of the soldiers in battle . The gold that had been acquired by such enormities , was soon squandered in de- bauchery and the most extravagant luxury ...
... nearly as many citizens who perished by the hands of the execu- tioner , as by those of the soldiers in battle . The gold that had been acquired by such enormities , was soon squandered in de- bauchery and the most extravagant luxury ...
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A Pictorial History of America: Embracing Both the Northern and Southern ... Samuel Griswold Goodrich Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1847 |
A Pictorial History of America: Embracing Both the Northern and Southern ... Samuel Griswold Goodrich Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1844 |
A Pictorial History of America: Embracing Both the Northern and Southern ... Samuel Griswold Goodrich Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1844 |
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Էջ 371 - For I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way : because we had spoken unto the king, saying, " The hand of our God is upon all them for good that seek him ; but his power and his wrath is against all them that forsake him.
Էջ 373 - Besides, what could they see but a hideous and desolate wilderness, full of wild beasts and wild men— and what multitudes there might be of them they knew not.
Էջ 780 - ... free and open to both parties. ARTICLE II. From the point at which the forty-ninth parallel of north latitude shall be found to intersect the great northern branch of the Columbia River, the navigation of the said branch shall be free and open to the Hudson's Bay Company, and to all British subjects trading with the same...
Էջ 331 - ... after, I saw two, apparelled after the manner of Englishmen, in Westminster palace, which at that time I could not discern from Englishmen, till I was learned what they were ; but as for speech, I heard none of them utter one word.
Էջ 820 - ... eminence we this day occupy, and let us seek to deserve that continuance by prudence and moderation in our councils, by well-directed attempts to assuage the bitterness which too often marks unavoidable differences of opinion, by the promulgation and practice of just and liberal principles, and by an enlarged patriotism, which shall acknowledge no limits but those of our own widespread Republic.
Էջ 418 - Esq., or, in his absence, to such as for the time being take care for preserving the peace and administering the laws in their Majesties' province of New York, in America.
Էջ 372 - But the tide (which stays for no man) calling them away that were thus loath to depart, their reverend pastor, falling down on his knees and they all with him, with watery cheeks commended them with most fervent prayers to the Lord and His blessing ; and then with mutual embraces and many tears they took their leaves one of another, which proved to be the last leave to many of them.
Էջ 373 - For summer being done, all things stand upon them with a weatherbeaten face, and the whole country, full of woods and thickets, represented a wild and savage hue. If they looked behind them, there was the mighty ocean which they had passed and was now as a main bar and gulf to separate them from all the civil parts of the world.
Էջ 374 - Cod; the weather was very cold, and it froze so hard as the spray of the sea lighting on their coats, they were as if they had been glazed...