The English Colonization of America During the Seventeenth Century

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Strahan & Company, 1871 - 352 pages

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Page 105 - Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver. There would this monster make a man. Any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.
Page 172 - But, before one generation had passed away, it began to be evident that the common people of Scotland were superior in intelligence to the common people of any other country in Europe. To whatever land the Scotchman might wander, to whatever calling he might betake himself, in America or in India, in trade or in war, the advantage which he derived from his early training raised him above his competitors.
Page 214 - CALVERT, knight, late BARON of BALTIMORE, in our said Kingdom of Ireland, treading in the steps of his father, being animated with a laudable and pious zeal for extending the Christian religion...
Page 114 - And it was told king David, saying, The LORD hath blessed the house of Obed-edom, and all that pertaineth unto him, because of the ark of God.
Page 12 - You must observe if you can, whether the river on which you plant doth spring out of mountains or out of lakes. If it be out of any lake, the passage to the other sea will be more easy, and [it] is like enough, that out of the same lake you shall find some spring which run[s] the contrary way towards the East India Sea...
Page 78 - But I much more muse that so few of our English ministers, that were so hot against the surplice and subscription, come hither, where neither are spoken of.
Page 95 - Virginia, anno. 1618. 1 . To the confession of faith published in the name of the Church of England and to every article thereof we do with the Reformed Churches where we live and also elsewhere assent wholly. 2. As we do acknowledge the doctrine of faith there taught so do we the fruits and effects of the same doctrine to the begetting of saving faith in thousands in the land (conformists and reformists) as they are called with whom also as with our brethren we do desire to keep spiritual communion...
Page 13 - You shall judge of the good air by the people, for some part of that coast where the lands are low have their people blear eyed, and with swollen bellies and legs, but if the naturals be strong and clean made it is a true sign of a wholesome soil.
Page 15 - And cheerfully at sea Success you still entice To get the pearl and gold, And ours to hold Virginia, Earth's only paradise.
Page 15 - To the Virginian ^ ^ Voyage You brave heroic minds, Worthy your country's name, That honour still pursue; Go and subdue, Whilst loitering hinds Lurk here at home with shame. Britons, you stay too long; Quickly aboard bestow you, And with a merry gale Swell your stretched sail, With vows as strong As the winds that blow you.

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