The European Beginnings of American History: An Introduction to the History of the United States

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Ginn, 1912 - 398 pàgines
 

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Pàgina 389 - My loving people, we have been persuaded by some that are careful of our safety, to take heed how we commit ourselves to armed multitudes, for fear of treachery. But I assure you, I do not desire to live to distrust my faithful and loving people. Let tyrants fear.
Pàgina 335 - ... had I but served God as diligently as I have served the king, he would not have given me over in my gray hairs.
Pàgina 169 - No free man shall be taken or imprisoned or dispossessed, or outlawed, or banished, or in any way destroyed, nor will we go upon him, nor send upon him, except by the legal judgment of his peers or by the law of the land.
Pàgina 389 - With all the virtues that attend the good, Shall still be doubled on her : truth shall nurse her, Holy and heavenly thoughts still counsel her : She shall be loved and fear'd : her own shall bless her ; Her foes shake like a field of beaten corn, And hang their heads with sorrow : good grows with her.
Pàgina 352 - Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.
Pàgina 324 - He is about forty-six years old, very handsome, learned, extremely eloquent, of vast ability, and indefatigable. He, alone, transacts the same business as that which occupies all the magistracies, offices, and councils of Venice, both civil and criminal ; and all state affairs, likewise, are managed by him, let their nature be what it may. He is...
Pàgina 120 - ... yearly from each. He also caused them to write down how much land belonged to his archbishops, to his bishops, his abbots and his earls, and, that I may be brief, what property every inhabitant of all England possessed in land or in cattle, and how much money this was worth. So very...
Pàgina 120 - England possessed in land or in cattle, and how much money this was worth. So very narrowly did he cause the survey to be made, that there was not a single hide nor a rood of land, nor — it is shameful to relate that which he thought no shame to do — was there an ox, or a cow, or a pig passed by, and that was not set down in the accounts, and then all these writings were brought to him.
Pàgina 327 - I find His Grace my very good lord indeed, and I believe he doth as singularly favour me as any subject within this Realm; howbeit, son Roper, I may tell thee I have no cause to be proud thereof, for if my head would win him a castle in France (for then there was war between us), it should not fail to go.
Pàgina 290 - They are Idolaters, and are dependent on nobody. And I can tell you the quantity of gold they have is • '. '• ' • '. . endless; for they find It in their own Islands, /and the King does not allow it to be exported.

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