American Biography: Or, An Historical Account of Those Persons who Have Been Distinguished in America, as Adventurers, Statesmen, Philosophers, Divines, Warriors, Authors, and Other Remarkable Characters: Comprehending a Recital of the Events Connected with Their Lives and Actions, Volume 1by Isaiah Thomas and Ebenezer T. Andrews. Faust's statue, no 45, Newbury Street, 1794 |
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Pagina 366 - the council eftablifhed at Plymouth, in the county of Devon, for the planting, ruling and governing of New England in America.
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Pagina 148 - underftand, they cover their temples and palaces with plates of pure gold. So that for want of knowing the way, all thefe things are hidden and concealed, and yet may be gone to with fafety. Much more might be faid, but having told you what is
Pagina 146 - of pepper, loaded and unloaded, befides many other mips that take in other fpice. This country is mighty populous, and there are many provinces and kingdoms, and innumerable cities under the dominion of a prince
Pagina 150 - the wife and ingenious men of thefe parts, as well in point of religion, as in all fciences, becaufe of the extraordinary account they have of the kingdoms and government of thefe parts. For which reafons, and many more that might be alleged, I do not at all admire, that you who have a great heart, and all the
Pagina 244 - was Flanders, where meeting with a Frenchman who pretended to be heir to a noble family, he, with his three attendants, prevailed upon Smith to go with them to France. In a dark night they arrived at St. Valery in Picardy, and, by
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Pagina 62 - which he came in the year 1170, left moft of his people there, and returning back for more of his own nation, acquaintance and friends, to inhabit that fair and large country, went thither again, with ten fails,