 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Readers - 1839 - 322 pages
...proportion, as compared with European tables of longevity, was still more remarkable. 4. I have dwelt the longer on the character of the early Puritans of New England, for they are the parents of one third the whole white population of the United States. In the first ten or twelve years, — and... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1839 - 506 pages
...proportion, as compared with European tables of longevity, was still more remarkable. • I have dwelt the longer on the character of the early Puritans of New England, for they are the CHAP. parents of one third the whole white population of the •~*v^ United States. In the first'ten... | |
 | Elocution - 1840 - 322 pages
...proportion, as compared with European tables of longevity', was still more remarkable. I have dwelt the longer on the character of the early Puritans of New England', for they are the parents of one third of the whole white population of the United States. In the first ten or twelve years', —... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1841 - 368 pages
...proportion, as compared with European tables of longevity, was still more remarkable. I have dwelt the longer on the character of the early Puritans of New England, for they are the parents of nearly one third of the white population of the United States. Within the first fifteen years — and... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1844 - 514 pages
...proportion, as compared with European tables of longevity, was still more remarkable. I have dwelt the longer on the character of the early Puritans of New England, for they are the 1 New England's First Fruits, printed 1643, p. 23, 2& CHAP. parents of one third the whole white population... | |
 | John Seely Hart - Readers - 1845 - 404 pages
...proportion, as compared with European tables of longevity, was still more remarkable. I have dwelt- the longer on the character of the early Puritans...New England, for they are the parents of one-third the whole white population of the United States. In the first ten or twelve years — and there was... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1854 - 550 pages
...proportion, as compared with European tables of longevity, was still more remarkable. I have dwelt the longer on the character of the early Puritans...New England, for they are the parents of one-third the whole white population of the United States. Within the first fifteen years,—'and there was never... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1855 - 394 pages
...Massachusetts. According to the calculation of Bancroft, the first Puritan settlers of New England are the parents of one-third of the whole white population of the United States. Within the first fifteen years (and there never was afterwards any considerable increase from England)... | |
 | GEORGE BANCROFT - 1856 - 500 pages
...proportion, as compared with European tables of longevity, was still more remarkable. I have dwelt the longer on the character of the early Puritans of New England, for they are the CHAP. parents of one third the whole white population of the •*^w United States. Within the first... | |
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... of all who were born into the world, more than two in ten, full four in nineteen, attained the age of seventy. Of those who lived beyond ninety, the proportion, as compared with European tables of longevity, was still more remarkable. I have dwelt... 
