Exploring American HistoryChristian Liberty Press, 2007 - 360 páginas |
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... voyages of the Vikings to North America . Far away in the cold northern countries that we know as Norway and Sweden and Denmark , lived a race of men who called themselves Vikings . They are often called Northmen or Norsemen , but I ...
... voyages of the Vikings to North America . Far away in the cold northern countries that we know as Norway and Sweden and Denmark , lived a race of men who called themselves Vikings . They are often called Northmen or Norsemen , but I ...
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... voyage from Iceland to Greenland , and the captain had set out , steering by the sun and stars , Viking fashion . But a thick fog came , and neither sun nor stars could be seen . Still , on and on sailed the Viking ship , and after a ...
... voyage from Iceland to Greenland , and the captain had set out , steering by the sun and stars , Viking fashion . But a thick fog came , and neither sun nor stars could be seen . Still , on and on sailed the Viking ship , and after a ...
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... voyages were made to its shores to get wood , but battles with the Indian natives kept the Vikings from making homes in the land they had found . In time they stopped sailing to Vinland , and deserted even the Greenland colonies and the ...
... voyages were made to its shores to get wood , but battles with the Indian natives kept the Vikings from making homes in the land they had found . In time they stopped sailing to Vinland , and deserted even the Greenland colonies and the ...
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... voyages to Africa , Iceland , and other lands . What men then knew about the world . The maps that Columbus made and sold were very different from those we now have . At that time , only half of the world had been discovered . Europe ...
... voyages to Africa , Iceland , and other lands . What men then knew about the world . The maps that Columbus made and sold were very different from those we now have . At that time , only half of the world had been discovered . Europe ...
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... voyage as he had planned . He asked the king of Portugal to provide some money or vessels , but the king did not want to help . At length , he determined to go to Spain and see if he could get help there . On the southern coast of Spain ...
... voyage as he had planned . He asked the king of Portugal to provide some money or vessels , but the king did not want to help . At length , he determined to go to Spain and see if he could get help there . On the southern coast of Spain ...
Contenido
XXIII | 180 |
XXIV | 185 |
XXV | 193 |
XXVI | 200 |
XXVII | 209 |
XXVIII | 215 |
XXIX | 230 |
XXX | 238 |
XXXI | 242 |
XXXII | 246 |
XXXIII | 253 |
XXXIV | 275 |
XXXV | 292 |
XXXVI | 311 |
XXXVII | 321 |
XXXVIII | 334 |
XXXIX | 346 |
XL | 360 |
XLI | 361 |
Términos y frases comunes
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Página 174 - Delaware, December 7, 1787; Pennsylvania. December 12, 1787; New Jersey, December 18, 1787; Georgia, January 2, 1788; Connecticut, January 9, 1788; Massachusetts. February 6, 1788; Maryland, April 28, 1788; South Carolina, May 23, 1788; New Hampshire, June 21, 1788; Virginia, June 26, 1788; and New York, July 26, 1788.
Página 349 - It is my intention to curb the size and influence of the Federal establishment and to demand recognition of the distinction between the powers granted to the Federal Government and those reserved to the States or to the people.
Página 199 - HERE WAS BURIED THOMAS JEFFERSON, Author of the Declaration of American Independence, Of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, And Father of the University of Virginia ; because by these, as testimonials that I have lived, I wish most to be remembered.
Página 99 - I did not understand him, till I felt my head hit against the beam. He was a man that never missed any occasion of giving instruction, and upon this he said to me, "You are young, and have the world before you; STOOP as you go through it, and you will miss many hard thumps.
Página 173 - Who are the parties to it? The people — but not the people as composing one great body; but the people as composing thirteen sovereignties. Were it, as the gentleman asserts, a consolidated government, the assent of a majority of the people would be sufficient for its establishment, and as a majority have adopted it already, the remaining States would be bound by the act of the majority, even if they unanimously reprobated it. Were it such a government as is suggested, it would be now binding on...
Página 175 - State are placed, engages us to make these assurances on their behalf, of their attachment and friendship to their sister States, and of their disposition to cultivate mutual harmony and friendly intercourse.
Página 100 - My companion at the press drank every day a pint before breakfast, a pint at breakfast with his bread and cheese, a pint between breakfast and dinner, a pint at dinner, a pint in the afternoon about six o'clock, and another when he had done his day's work.