The History of North and South America: From Its Discovery to the Death of General Washington, Volume 1-2Jacob Johnson, 1806 |
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... followed . His arrangement of the subject , his chronological order , and his very style have been adopted , as the best that can be chosen . To con- dense his details , to introduce only the most pro minent and characteristic events ...
... followed . His arrangement of the subject , his chronological order , and his very style have been adopted , as the best that can be chosen . To con- dense his details , to introduce only the most pro minent and characteristic events ...
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... followed the fortune of Columbus , and some gentlemen of Isabella's court , whom she appointed to ac- company him . Though the expense of the undertaking was one of the circumstances that chiefly alarmed the court of Spain , and ...
... followed the fortune of Columbus , and some gentlemen of Isabella's court , whom she appointed to ac- company him . Though the expense of the undertaking was one of the circumstances that chiefly alarmed the court of Spain , and ...
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... followed by an act of justice to their commander : they fell at his feet with feelings of self - condemnation , inspired with reverence . They implored his pardon for their ignorance , incredulity , and insolence , which had created him ...
... followed by an act of justice to their commander : they fell at his feet with feelings of self - condemnation , inspired with reverence . They implored his pardon for their ignorance , incredulity , and insolence , which had created him ...
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... followed himself with the main body of the troops . He displayed in this expedition , all the pomp of military parade , in order to strike the imagina- tion of the natives : he marched with colours flying , mar- tial music , and a small ...
... followed himself with the main body of the troops . He displayed in this expedition , all the pomp of military parade , in order to strike the imagina- tion of the natives : he marched with colours flying , mar- tial music , and a small ...
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... followed , and can be imputed to no other cause . Columbus easily obtained the royal approbation to every measure and regulation he proposed : but his endeavours to carry them into execution , were long retarded , and must have tired ...
... followed , and can be imputed to no other cause . Columbus easily obtained the royal approbation to every measure and regulation he proposed : but his endeavours to carry them into execution , were long retarded , and must have tired ...
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Almagro Americans appeared appointed arms army arrived artillery assembly Atahualpa attack attempt body Boston brigantines Britain brother carried cazique colonel colonies Columbus command conduct Congress considered continued Cortes countrymen courage court crown of Castile Cuba Cuzco danger declared defence discovered discovery empire endeavoured enemy engaged enterprize execution expedition favour Ferdinand fire fleet force gold governor harbour Hispaniola honour hopes Huascar hundred Inca Indians inhabitants instantly island killed land liberty lord lord Cornwallis Lord Dunmore Manco Capac ment Mexican empire Mexicans miles military monarch Montezuma nation natives North notwithstanding obliged officers Panama party persons Peru Pizarro possession prisoners proceeded province provisions Quito received refused respect retreat river royal sail seized sent ships soldiers soon sovereign Spain Spaniards Spanish spirit success suffered Sullivan's island surprize thousand tion Tlascalans took town utmost valour vessels viceroy victory violent voyage wounded
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Halaman 156 - The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government. But the constitution which at any time exists till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people is sacredly obligatory upon all.
Halaman 156 - However combinations or associations of the above description may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men, will be enabled to subvert the power of the people, and to usurp for themselves the reins of government destroying, afterwards, the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.
Halaman 165 - Relying on its kindness in this, as in other things, and actuated by that fervent love towards it which is so natural to a man who views in it the native soil of himself and his progenitors for several generations, I anticipate, with pleasing expectation, that retreat in which I promise myself to realize, without alloy, the sweet enjoyment of partaking, in the midst of my fellow-citizens, the benign influence of good laws under a free Government — the ever favorite object of my heart — and the...
Halaman 154 - Union, affecting all parts of our country, while experience shall not have demonstrated its impracticability, there will always be reason to distrust the. patriotism of those, who, in any quarter, may endeavour to weaken its bands.
Halaman 159 - Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labour to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens.
Halaman 156 - Towards the preservation of your government, and the permanency of your present happy state, it is requisite, not only that you steadily discountenance irregular oppositions to its acknowledged authority, but also that you resist with care the spirit of innovation upon its principles, however specious the pretexts.
Halaman 151 - ... strengthened the motives to diffidence of myself; and every day the increasing weight of years admonishes me more and more that the shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome. Satisfied that if any circumstances have given peculiar value to my services, they were temporary, I have the consolation to believe, that while choice and prudence invite me to quit the political scene, patriotism does not forbid it.
Halaman 165 - I shall also carry with me the hope that my country will never cease to view them with indulgence ; and that, after forty-five years of my life dedicated to its service, with an upright zeal, the faults of incompetent abilities will be consigned to oblivion, as myself must soon be to the mansions of rest.
Halaman 156 - They serve to organize faction, to give it an artificial and extraordinary force, to put in the place of the delegated will of the nation, the will of a party, often a small, but artful and enterprising minority of the community...