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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... navigation may be imperfectly noted . Roanoke , so far as it lies within this state , is no where navigable , but for canoes , or light bat- teaux ; and , even for these , in such detached parcels as to have prevented the inhabitants ...
... navigation may be imperfectly noted . Roanoke , so far as it lies within this state , is no where navigable , but for canoes , or light bat- teaux ; and , even for these , in such detached parcels as to have prevented the inhabitants ...
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... navigation ceases . of James River itself affords harbor for vessels . any size in Hampton Road , but not in safety through the whole winter ; and there is naviga- ble water for them as far as Mulbury Island . A 40 gun ship goes to ...
... navigation ceases . of James River itself affords harbor for vessels . any size in Hampton Road , but not in safety through the whole winter ; and there is naviga- ble water for them as far as Mulbury Island . A 40 gun ship goes to ...
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... navigation may also be made to inter- lock with that of the Patowmac , and through that to communicate by a short portage with the Ohio . It is to be noted , that this river is called in the maps James River , only to its confluence ...
... navigation may also be made to inter- lock with that of the Patowmac , and through that to communicate by a short portage with the Ohio . It is to be noted , that this river is called in the maps James River , only to its confluence ...
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... navigation above them for batteaux and canoes , is so much inter- rupted as to be little used . It is , however , used in a small degree up the Cohongoronta branch as far as fort Cumberland , which was at the mouth of Willis creek ; and ...
... navigation above them for batteaux and canoes , is so much inter- rupted as to be little used . It is , however , used in a small degree up the Cohongoronta branch as far as fort Cumberland , which was at the mouth of Willis creek ; and ...
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... navigation of 16 miles to its entrance into lake Michigan . The Illi- nois , about 10 miles above its mouth , is 300 yards wide . The Kaskaskia is 100 yards wide at its en- trance into the Missisipi , and preserves that breadth to the ...
... navigation of 16 miles to its entrance into lake Michigan . The Illi- nois , about 10 miles above its mouth , is 300 yards wide . The Kaskaskia is 100 yards wide at its en- trance into the Missisipi , and preserves that breadth to the ...
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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...