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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition. 42 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 18 0 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 10 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10 6 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: April 13, 1863., [Electronic resource] 6 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, A book of American explorers 4 0 Browse Search
Charles A. Nelson , A. M., Waltham, past, present and its industries, with an historical sketch of Watertown from its settlement in 1630 to the incorporation of Waltham, January 15, 1739. 4 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 35. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 4 0 Browse Search
George P. Rowell and Company's American Newspaper Directory, containing accurate lists of all the newspapers and periodicals published in the United States and territories, and the dominion of Canada, and British Colonies of North America., together with a description of the towns and cities in which they are published. (ed. George P. Rowell and company) 4 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition. 4 0 Browse Search
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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 15: (search)
Indies. Lisbon and Antwerp were despoiled; Amsterdam, the depot J. R. Brodhead's History of N. Y Holland to America. In that year Bikker of Amsterdam, and Leyen of Enkhuisen, each formed a compaut they were overrruled by the directors for Amsterdam; and on the fourth day of April, 1609, five five small vessels, of which the Fortune, of Amsterdam, had Christiaensen for its commander; the Tihen Jean de Laet, a member of the chamber of Amsterdam, in an elaborate work on the West Indies, opd right honorable lords, the burgomasters of Amsterdam, instituted a paralyzing commercial monopolyarrison, fled in troops from the dominion of Amsterdam to the liberties of English colonies. The pious Wal- 1656 Dec 19. denses? The city of Amsterdam offered the fugitives a free passage to Amernne, were distinguished patrons; the city of Amsterdam Ibid. VIII. 383. did not blush to own shaeb. and July. on the Delaware to the city of Amsterdam. The banks of the river from Cape Henlopen [10 more...]
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 16: (search)
on earth, his second coming, was at hand. Under the excitement of hopes, created by the rapid progress of liberty, which, to the common mind, was an inexplicable mystery, the blissful centuries of the millennium promised to open upon a favored world. Political enfranchisements had been followed by the emancipation of knowledge. The powers of nature were freely examined; the merchants always tolerated or favored the pursuits of science. Galileo had been safe at Venice, and honored at Amsterdam or London. The method of free inquiry, applied to chemistry, had invented gunpowder and changed the manners of the feudal aristocracy; applied to geography, had discovered a hemisphere, and, circumnavigating the globe, made the theatre of commerce wide as the world; applied to the mechanical process of multiplying books, had brought the New Testament, in the vulgar tongue, within the reach of every class; applied to the rights of persons and property, had, for the English, built up a syst