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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... fact , the principal river , contributing more to the common stream than does the Missisipi , even after its junction with the Illinois . It is remarkably cold , muddy and rapid . Its overflowings are considerable . They happen during ...
... fact , the principal river , contributing more to the common stream than does the Missisipi , even after its junction with the Illinois . It is remarkably cold , muddy and rapid . Its overflowings are considerable . They happen during ...
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... fact the end or termination only of the great ridges passing through the conti- nent . European geographers however extend- ed the name northwardly as far as the moun- tains extended ; some giving it , after their se paration into ...
... fact the end or termination only of the great ridges passing through the conti- nent . European geographers however extend- ed the name northwardly as far as the moun- tains extended ; some giving it , after their se paration into ...
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... fact the spine of the country between the Atlantic on one side , and the Mis- sisipi and St. Laurence on the other . The pas- sage of the Patowmac through the Blue ridge is perhaps one of the most stupendous scenes in nature . You stand ...
... fact the spine of the country between the Atlantic on one side , and the Mis- sisipi and St. Laurence on the other . The pas- sage of the Patowmac through the Blue ridge is perhaps one of the most stupendous scenes in nature . You stand ...
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... fact is remarkable , and will furnish some light for conje & uring the probable origin of our natural bridge .. • Esta caxa , ó cauch está cortadae n péna viva con tanta precision , que las desigualdades del un lado entrantes ...
... fact is remarkable , and will furnish some light for conje & uring the probable origin of our natural bridge .. • Esta caxa , ó cauch está cortadae n péna viva con tanta precision , que las desigualdades del un lado entrantes ...
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... fact has taken place , either in our own days , or in the thousands of years recorded in history , which proves the existence of any natural agents with- in or without the bowels of the earth , of force sufficient to heave , to the ...
... fact has taken place , either in our own days , or in the thousands of years recorded in history , which proves the existence of any natural agents with- in or without the bowels of the earth , of force sufficient to heave , to the ...
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Alleghaney America animals assembly batteaux Blue ridge bones branch Buffon called canoes charter chief circumstances colony common commonwealth of England constitution coun council court court of chancery creek Cresap declared Delaware delegates earth elephant England equal Europe expence feet governor grant Great-Britain heat inches Indians inhabitants instance James River judges Kanhaway Kaskaskia killed king Lake Lake Erie lands latitude laws legislature Logan Lord Dunmore ment Michael Cresap miles militia Missisipi Mons Monticello mountains mouth murder nation nature navigable for loaded never New-Jersey New-York North Ohio opinion party pass Patowmac Penn persons Picus Powhatans present probably proclamation produced quadrupeds QUERY side slaves spring supposed tain thence Thurl tion tobacco town treaty tribes Tuteloes Virginia weight whole William Penn Williamsburgh yards wide York river
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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...