Pioneers of the Old South: A Chronicle of English Colonial BeginningsYale University Press, 1918 - 260 Seiten |
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Alexander Spotswood Altamaha America Argall Assembly Bacon Balti Bartholomew Gosnold began boat brought Burgesses cabins called Calvert Cape Captain Catholic Charles charter Chesapeake Christopher Newport Church Claiborne colonists colony Commissioners Council councilor Crown Dale died Drummond England England-in-America English Englishmen fell forest Gates gathered George Georgia ginia gold Governor hundred Indians James Jamestown John Rolfe John Smith Kent Island King King's land laws Leonard Calvert London Lord Baltimore Lord Proprietary Mary Maryland Middle Plantation named Nathaniel Bacon North Oglethorpe Opechancanough Parliament party persons planters Pocahontas Point Comfort port Potomac Powhatan presently prison Protestant Puritan quarrel river Rolfe Royal sailed savages Sea Adventure sent settlers seventeenth shore Sir William Berkeley Somers soon South Carolina South Sea Spain Spanish Spotswood Susan Constant three ships tion tobacco town trade Virginia Company Warr West young
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Seite 164 - I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years. For learning has brought disobedience and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both"!
Seite 9 - Frighting the wide heaven. And in regions far Such heroes bring ye forth As those from whom we came; And plant our name Under that Star Not known unto our North.
Seite 9 - And cheerfully at sea, Success you still entice To get the pearl and gold And ours to hold Virginia, Earth's only paradise.
Seite 68 - Neptune gan to frowne, As if a courser prowdly backt would throwe his ryder downe. The seas did rage, the windes did blowe, distressed were they then; Their ship did leake, her tacklings breake, in daunger were her men. But heaven was pylotte in this storme, and to an iland nere, Bermoothawes call'd, conducted then, which did abate their feare.
Seite 153 - Declared and sett forth) that noe person or persons whatsoever within this Province, or the Islands, Ports, Harbors, Creekes, or havens thereunto belonging professing to believe in Jesus Christ, shall from henceforth bee any waies troubled, Molested or discountenanced for or in respect of his or her religion nor in the free exercise thereof within this Province or the Islands thereunto belonging nor any way compelled to the beleife or exercise of any other Religion against his or her consent...
Seite 68 - To kill these swyne, to yield them foode that little had to eate, Their store was spent, and all things scant, alas! they wanted meate. A thousand hogges that dogge did kill, their hunger to sustaine, And with such foode did in that ile two and forty weekes remaine.
Seite 9 - Lastly and chiefly, the way to prosper and achieve good success is to make yourselves all of one mind, for the good of your country and your own, and to serve and fear God, the Giver of all goodness; for every plantation which our Heavenly Father hath not planted shall be rooted out.
Seite 227 - If New England be called a receptacle of Dissenters, and an Amsterdam of religion, Pennsylvania the nursery of Quakers, Maryland the retirement of Roman Catholics, North Carolina the refuge of runaways, and South Carolina the delight of buccaneers and pirates, Virginia may be justly esteemed the happy retreat of true Britons and true Churchmen...
Seite 93 - God have no power with them and the conversion of these poor infidels, yet let the rich mammons' desire egge them on to inhabit these countries. I protest to you, by the faith of an honest man, the more I range the country the more I admire it. I have seen the best countries in Europe; I protest to you, before the Living God, put them all together, this country will be equivalent unto them if it be inhabited with good people.
Seite 153 - And whereas the enforcing of the conscience in matters of religion hath frequently fallen out to be of dangerous consequence...