The History and Antiquities of New England, New York, and New Jersey: Embracing the Following Subjects, Viz.: Discoveries and Settlements, Indian History, Indian, French, and Revolutionary Wars, Religious History, Biographical Sketches, Anecdotes, Traditions, Remarkable and Unaccountable Occurrences, with a Great Variety of Curious and Interesting Relics of Antiquity : Illustrated by Numerous EngravingsDorr, Howland & Company, 1841 - 576 σελίδες |
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... enemy . The French fleet was delayed and damaged by storms : some of the ships were lost , and a pestilential fever prevailed among the troops , and the two admi- rals killed themselves through chagrin on the failure of the expe- dition ...
... enemy . The French fleet was delayed and damaged by storms : some of the ships were lost , and a pestilential fever prevailed among the troops , and the two admi- rals killed themselves through chagrin on the failure of the expe- dition ...
Σελίδα 89
... enemy can escape them , for by the disposition of the grass and leaves , they follow his track with great speed any where but over a rock . Their barbarity is shocking to human nature . Women and children they generally kill and scalp ...
... enemy can escape them , for by the disposition of the grass and leaves , they follow his track with great speed any where but over a rock . Their barbarity is shocking to human nature . Women and children they generally kill and scalp ...
Σελίδα 90
... enemy with a pipe , the bowl of which is made of soft , red mar- ble ; and a long reed , beautifully painted , and adorned with the gay plumage of birds , forms the stem . This is his infallible pro- tection from any assault on the way ...
... enemy with a pipe , the bowl of which is made of soft , red mar- ble ; and a long reed , beautifully painted , and adorned with the gay plumage of birds , forms the stem . This is his infallible pro- tection from any assault on the way ...
Σελίδα 102
... enemies in disguise . This treachery when found out roused the Delawares , who resol- ved to destroy their perfidious enemies . This , they say , they might easily have done , as they were numerous as grasshoppers at particular seasons ...
... enemies in disguise . This treachery when found out roused the Delawares , who resol- ved to destroy their perfidious enemies . This , they say , they might easily have done , as they were numerous as grasshoppers at particular seasons ...
Σελίδα 106
... enemies are in march against each other . 4. " The path is already shut up . " Hostilities have commenced . The war is begun . 5. " The rivers run with blood . " War rages in the country . 6. " To bury the hatchet . ” To make , or ...
... enemies are in march against each other . 4. " The path is already shut up . " Hostilities have commenced . The war is begun . 5. " The rivers run with blood . " War rages in the country . 6. " To bury the hatchet . ” To make , or ...
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Σελίδα 27 - Though these agents found the Virginia company very desirous of the projected settlement in their American territory, and willing to grant them a patent with as ample privileges, as they had power to convey ; yet they could prevail with the king no farther, than to engage that he would connive at them, and not molest them, provided they should conduct peaceably. Toleration in religious liberty by his public authority, under his seal, was denied.
Σελίδα 272 - Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.
Σελίδα 353 - For the last Man you put to Death, here are five come in his Room. And if you have Power to take my Life from me, God can raise up the same Principle of Life in ten of his Servants, and send them among you in my Room, that you may have Torment upon Torment, which is your Portion : For there is no Peace to the Wicked, saith my God.
Σελίδα 330 - Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday ; hide the outcasts; bewray not him that wandereth. Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab ; be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler : for the extortioner is at an end, the spoiler ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out of the land.
Σελίδα 32 - Name of the Council Established at Plymouth in the County of Devon, for the Planting, Ruling, Ordering and Governing of New England in America...
Σελίδα 425 - ... that the rebels should not know that they had a man in their army who could die with so much firmness.
Σελίδα 249 - You are a child — you cannot understand matters of war — let your brother or your chief come — him will I answer.
Σελίδα 397 - By the first," said the colonists, " the property of unoffending thousands is arbitrarily taken away, for the act of a few individuals ; by the second, our chartered liberties are annihilated ; and, by the third, our lives may be destroyed with impunity.
Σελίδα 120 - The fame of this great man extended even among the whites, who fabricated numerous legends respecting him, which I never heard, however, from the mouth of an Indian, and therefore believe to be fabulous. In the revolutionary war, his enthusiastic admirers dubbed him a saint, and he was established under the name of St. Tammany, the patron saint of America.
Σελίδα 184 - Hudson's river, and all the lands from the west side of Connecticut river, to the east side of Delaware bay.