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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... reason they were named , by the Indians the Endless mountains . eli tor A substance , supposed to be Pumice , found floating on the Missisipi , has induced a con- jecture , t that there is a volcano on some of its waters and as these ...
... reason they were named , by the Indians the Endless mountains . eli tor A substance , supposed to be Pumice , found floating on the Missisipi , has induced a con- jecture , t that there is a volcano on some of its waters and as these ...
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... reason to suppose the nature of the ele- phant fitted . However , it has been demonstra- ted , that , if a variation of obliquity in the eclip- tic takes place at all , it is vibratory , and never exceeds the limits of 9 degrees , which ...
... reason to suppose the nature of the ele- phant fitted . However , it has been demonstra- ted , that , if a variation of obliquity in the eclip- tic takes place at all , it is vibratory , and never exceeds the limits of 9 degrees , which ...
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... reason he thinks is , that the heats of America are less ; that more waters are spread over its . surface by nature , and fewer of these drained off by the hand of man . In other words , that beat is friendly , and moisture adverse to ...
... reason he thinks is , that the heats of America are less ; that more waters are spread over its . surface by nature , and fewer of these drained off by the hand of man . In other words , that beat is friendly , and moisture adverse to ...
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... reason is very obvious . In a thinly peopled country , the spontaneous productions of the forests and waste fields are sufficient to support indifferently the domestic animals of the farmer , with a very little aid from him in the ...
... reason is very obvious . In a thinly peopled country , the spontaneous productions of the forests and waste fields are sufficient to support indifferently the domestic animals of the farmer , with a very little aid from him in the ...
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... reason ; because our man and their wo- man is habituated to labour , and formed by it . With both races the sex which is indulged with * A remarkable instance of this appeared in the case of the late Col. Byrd , who was sent to the ...
... reason ; because our man and their wo- man is habituated to labour , and formed by it . With both races the sex which is indulged with * A remarkable instance of this appeared in the case of the late Col. Byrd , who was sent 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...