The Adventvres and Discovreses of Captain Iohn Smith: Sometime President of Virginia, and Admiral of New EnglandEducational Publishing Company, 1883 - 309 pages |
Other editions - View all
The Adventures and Discourses of Captain Iohn Smith, Sometime President of ... John Ashton No preview available - 2016 |
Common terms and phrases
adventure againſt alfo alſo amongſt Anthony Bagnall arms arrows aſked baſkets becauſe befides beſt boat Captain Newport cauſed cloth Coaſt Colony corn Council courſe defired diſcover divers Edward Maria Wingfield England Engliſh eſcaped faid fame favages fave feemed fent feven fhall fhip fhore fhot fhow fight firſt fiſh flain foldiers fome fomewhat foon friends fuch fufficient fwords gave George Popham himſelf houſe hundred James Town John Rolfe King laft land laſt Lord Mafter moft Monacans moſt muſt myſelf ourſelves paſs Perfons perfuade pinnace Plantations pleaſed Pocahontas Powhatan Prefident preſently priſoners promiſed provifion purpoſe Ralegh Gilbert reaſon reft reſt returned river ſaid ſay ſee ſeemed ſent ſet ſeven ſhall ſhe ſhip ſhot ſhould ſhow ſmall ſome ſpent ſtay Succeffors ſuch themſelves theſe thofe thoſe thouſand told took Turks unto uſed victual vifit Virginia Vols Weft whatſoever whilft whofe
Popular passages
Page 80 - Within is a country that may have the prerogative over the most pleasant places of Europe, Asia, Africa, or America, for large and pleasant navigable rivers: heaven and earth never agreed better to frame a place for man's habitation being of our constitutions, were it fully manured and inhabited by industrious people.
Page 287 - People into that Part of America, commonly called VIRGINIA, and other Parts and Territories in America, either appertaining unto us, or which are not now actually possessed by any Christian Prince or People...
Page 309 - A Commentary on the Revised Version of the New Testament for English Readers. By Prebendary HUMPHRY, BD , Member of the Company of Revisers of the New Testament.
Page 297 - HAVE and enjoy all Liberties, Franchises, and Immunities, within any of our other Dominions, to all Intents and Purposes, as if they had been abiding and born, within this our Realm of England, or any other of our said Dominions.
Page 288 - Furtherance of so noble a Work, which may, by the Providence of Almighty God, hereafter tend to the Glory of his Divine Majesty, in propagating of Christian Religion to such People, as yet live in Darkness and miserable Ignorance of the true Knowledge and Worship of God, and may in time bring the Infidels and Savages, living in those Parts, to human Civility, and to a settled and quiet Government; DO, by these our Letters Patents, graciously accept of, and agree to, their humble and wellintended...
Page 288 - We, greatly commending, and graciously accepting of, their Desires for the Furtherance of so noble a Work, which may, by the Providence of Almighty God, hereafter tend to the Glory of his Divine Majesty, in propagating of Christian Religion to such People, as yet live in Darkness and miserable Ignorance of the true Knowledge and Worship of God, and may in time bring the Infidels and Savages, living in those Parts, to human Civility, and to a settled and quiet Government...
Page 300 - Day of April, in the fourth Year of our Reign of England, France, and Ireland, and of Scotland the nine and thirtieth.
Page 309 - Edited by the Right Rev. CJ ELLICOTT, DD, Lord Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol. Complete in 5 Vols., 2is.