The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 1John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell Macmillan, 1929 - Great Britain |
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Page 108
... better employed than if they had stayed behind to evict copy- holders or to fall into the usurious clutches of a Spinola or a Para- vicini . Religious zeal , too , found a healthier outlet in converting the native Virginians than in ...
... better employed than if they had stayed behind to evict copy- holders or to fall into the usurious clutches of a Spinola or a Para- vicini . Religious zeal , too , found a healthier outlet in converting the native Virginians than in ...
Page 122
... better armed , better manned , and better worked , besides at the start gaining the weather gauge . But joy at the deliverance from a great fear stopped not to reason why . Enough that the Spaniards " with all their so great and ...
... better armed , better manned , and better worked , besides at the start gaining the weather gauge . But joy at the deliverance from a great fear stopped not to reason why . Enough that the Spaniards " with all their so great and ...
Page 154
... better use for their money elsewhere . The better class of emigrants would not readily go to places where it was notorious that they would be faced with the hostility of large numbers of unruly fishermen , and New England had therefore ...
... better use for their money elsewhere . The better class of emigrants would not readily go to places where it was notorious that they would be faced with the hostility of large numbers of unruly fishermen , and New England had therefore ...
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