| John Burk, Skelton Jones, Louis Hue Girardin - 1804 - 366 páginas
...were many islands, both great and small ; some woody, but most of them low and uninhabita-- ble : So that heaven and earth seemed never to have agreed...place for man's commodious and delightful habitation, were it fully cultivated, and inhabited by industrious people. Stitk. •* t Smith. \ Stlth's Virg.... | |
| George Bancroft - 1839 - 506 páginas
...the most pleasant. places in the —^ world." Hope revived for a season, as they advanced. 1607. " Heaven and earth seemed never to have agreed better...place for man's commodious and delightful habitation." 1 A noble river was soon entered, which was named from the monarch; and, after a search of seventeen... | |
| George Bancroft - 1841 - 368 páginas
...prerogative over the most pleasant places in the world." Hope revived for a season, as they advanced. " Heaven and earth seemed never to have agreed better...place for man's commodious and delightful habitation." A noble river was soon entered, which was named from the monarch ; and, after a search of seventeen... | |
| Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1855 - 584 páginas
...completely fascinated, for he declared that ' heaven and earth seemed never to have 0 3 Hening, p. 181. agreed better to frame a place for man's commodious and delightful habitation.'* And Beverly, too, writing about a century after, says, ' the country is in a very happy •situation... | |
| Samuel Wilberforce - 1844 - 484 páginas
...a fair bay, encompassed on all sides, except at the mouth, with such fruitful and delightful land. Heaven and earth seemed never to have agreed better...place for man's commodious and delightful habitation, were it fully cultivated and inhabited by industrious people." 1 But this bright morning was soon clouded... | |
| George Bancroft - 1844 - 514 páginas
...the most pleasant places in the .— ^ world." Hope revived for a season, as they advanced. 1607 " Heaven and earth seemed never to have agreed better...frame a place for man's commodious and delightful habitation."1 A noble river was soon entered, which was named from the monarch ; and, after a search... | |
| Hugh Murray - 1844 - 408 páginas
...to them to claim the prerogative over the most pleasant places in the world. Heaven and earth seem never to have agreed better to frame a place for man's commodious and delightful habitation." They soon reached a noble river, which they named James, and after ascending and examining its shores... | |
| John Frost - 1846 - 336 páginas
...to them to claim the prerogative over the most pleasant places in the world. Heaven and earth seem never to have agreed better to frame a place for man's commodious and delightful habitation." They soon reached a noble river, which they named James, and after ascending and examining its shores... | |
| Charles Bricket Haddock - 1846 - 604 páginas
...their high souls are reproduced still in the country of which one of them said, " Heaven and earth seem never to have agreed better to frame a place for man's commodious and delightful habitation." Nothing is more difficult than to draw broad lines of distinction between portions of the same people.... | |
| Robert Sears - 1847 - 470 páginas
...to them to claim the prerogative over the most pleasant places in the world. Heaven and earth seem never to have agreed better to frame a place for man's commodious and delightful habitation." They soon-reached a noble river, which they named James, and after ascending and examining its shores... | |
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