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Title: A junior class history of the United States; to which are added the Declaration of independence, and the Constitution of the United States ..
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Anderson, John J. (John Jacob), 1821-1906
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Publisher: New York, Maynard, Merrill & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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l climate, and wealth of Virginia, made many desire to go there, to bring back some of its rich products, or to find a home in which they might live in ease and idleness. * During his imprisonment he wrote a "History of England". Being released, in order that he might point out a gold mine which he said existed in the northern part of South America, and having failed in the expedition, he was, on his return, beheaded, under the sentence which for several years had been forgotten (1618). He met death with the most heroic indifference. Before he laid his head upon the block he felt the edge of the ax, and said, with a smile upon his face, that it was a sharp medicine, but would cure the worst disease. When he was bent down, ready for death, he said to the executioner, finding that he hesitated, What dost thou fear ? Strike, man ! So the ax came down and struck his head off, in the sixty-sixth year of his age.—Dickens's England. Text Questions.~1. What induced further attempts to settle Virginia ?
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SEAL OF VIRGINIA 38 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES

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