Notes on the State of Virginia: With an Appendix Relative to the Murder of Logan's FamilyWilson & Blackwell, 1803 - 363 էջ |
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... Logan's Family Thomas Jefferson. The Gorden Lester Ford Collection Presented by his Sons Werthington Chauncer Forch . and Paul Leicester Ford to the New York Public Library . T State of Virginia . WITH AN APPENDIX LOGAN'S FAMILY.
... Logan's Family Thomas Jefferson. The Gorden Lester Ford Collection Presented by his Sons Werthington Chauncer Forch . and Paul Leicester Ford to the New York Public Library . T State of Virginia . WITH AN APPENDIX LOGAN'S FAMILY.
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... York Blandfor Hack water The Gloster York CHESAPEAK BAY De Watkin's Norfolk #btsmouth Hill Charles Henry 38 tuck Inlet R 57 A R 76 London . 77 W. Barker , sculp. Philada 2 Mountains,
... York Blandfor Hack water The Gloster York CHESAPEAK BAY De Watkin's Norfolk #btsmouth Hill Charles Henry 38 tuck Inlet R 57 A R 76 London . 77 W. Barker , sculp. Philada 2 Mountains,
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... York River , at York town , affords the best harbor in the State for vessels of the largest size . The river there narrows to the width of a mile , and is contained within very high banks , close under which the vessels may ride . It ...
... York River , at York town , affords the best harbor in the State for vessels of the largest size . The river there narrows to the width of a mile , and is contained within very high banks , close under which the vessels may ride . It ...
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... York , that part of the trade which comes from the lakes or their wa- ters must first be brought into Lake Erie . Be- tween Lake Superior and its waters and Huron are the rapids of St. Mary , which will permit boats to pass , but not ...
... York , that part of the trade which comes from the lakes or their wa- ters must first be brought into Lake Erie . Be- tween Lake Superior and its waters and Huron are the rapids of St. Mary , which will permit boats to pass , but not ...
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... York it will have 825 miles and five portages ; whereas it is but 425 miles to Alex- andria , its emporium on the Patowmac , if it turns into the Cayahoga , and passes through that , Big - beaver , Ohio , Yohoganey , ( or Mo- nongahela ...
... York it will have 825 miles and five portages ; whereas it is but 425 miles to Alex- andria , its emporium on the Patowmac , if it turns into the Cayahoga , and passes through that , Big - beaver , Ohio , Yohoganey , ( or Mo- nongahela ...
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Էջ 219 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other.
Էջ 307 - Almighty power to do; that the impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world, and through all time ; that to compel a man to furnish contributions...
Էջ 219 - The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to the worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities.
Էջ 223 - The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government, as sores do to the strength of the human body.
Էջ 309 - ... or support any religious worship, place or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested, or burthened in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer on account of his religious opinions or belief; but that all men shall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain, their opinions in matters of religion, and that the same shall in no wise diminish, enlarge, or affect their civil capacities.
Էջ 214 - The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
Էջ 220 - And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God?
Էջ 30 - If the view from the top be painful and intolerable, that from below is delightful in an equal extreme. It is impossible for the emotions arising from the sublime to be felt beyond what they are here ; so beautiful an arch, so elevated, so light, and springing as it were up to heaven ! the rapture of the spectator is really indescribable...
Էջ 159 - For this reason that convention which passed the ordinance of government, laid its foundation on this basis, that the legislative, executive, and judiciary departments should be separate and distinct, so that no person should exercise the powers of more than one of them at the same time.
Էջ 145 - The Treasurer and company of Adventurers and Planters of the City of London for the first colony in Virginia...