Notes on the State of VirginiaR.T. Rawle, 1801 - 495 էջ |
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... never can be stemmed by the force of the wind alone , acting on fails . Any veffel , however , navigated with oars , may come up at any time , and receive much aid from the wind . A batteau paffes from the mouth of Ohio to the mouth of ...
... never can be stemmed by the force of the wind alone , acting on fails . Any veffel , however , navigated with oars , may come up at any time , and receive much aid from the wind . A batteau paffes from the mouth of Ohio to the mouth of ...
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... never overflowed . Its bed deepens memory every year . Cohoes , in the of many people now living , was infulated by every flood of the river . What was the eastern channel has now become a lake , 9 miles in length and one in width ...
... never overflowed . Its bed deepens memory every year . Cohoes , in the of many people now living , was infulated by every flood of the river . What was the eastern channel has now become a lake , 9 miles in length and one in width ...
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... never learn . From Santa Fé to its mouth in the Gulph of Mexico is a- bout 1200 miles . The road from New Orleans to Mexico croffes this river at the poft of Rio Norte , 800 miles below Santa Fé : and from this poft 1800 NOTES ON ...
... never learn . From Santa Fé to its mouth in the Gulph of Mexico is a- bout 1200 miles . The road from New Orleans to Mexico croffes this river at the poft of Rio Norte , 800 miles below Santa Fé : and from this poft 1800 NOTES ON ...
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... never overflowed , and to command the fettlement at Louisville , which is oppofite to it . The fort , however , is fituated at the head of the falls . The ground on the fouth fide rises very gradually . The Taniffee , Cherokee or ...
... never overflowed , and to command the fettlement at Louisville , which is oppofite to it . The fort , however , is fituated at the head of the falls . The ground on the fouth fide rises very gradually . The Taniffee , Cherokee or ...
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... never freeze , but the communications between them freeze , and the Hudfon's River is itfelf fhut up by the ice three months in the year ; whereas the channel to the Chefapeak leads directly into a warmer climate . The fouthern parts of ...
... never freeze , but the communications between them freeze , and the Hudfon's River is itfelf fhut up by the ice three months in the year ; whereas the channel to the Chefapeak leads directly into a warmer climate . The fouthern parts of ...
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Էջ 96 - There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it: I have killed many: I have fully glutted my vengeance: for my country I rejoice at the beams of peace. But do not harbour a thought that mine is the joy of fear.
Էջ 243 - 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 ? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath ? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just ; that his justice cannot sleep forever...
Էջ 328 - Almighty God hath created the mind free; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the Holy author of our religion...
Էջ 328 - ... all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, who being lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in His almighty power to do...
Էջ 329 - ... that our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry; that therefore the proscribing any citizen as unworthy the public confidence by laying upon him an incapacity of being called to offices of trust and emolument unless he profess or renounce this or that religious opinion is depriving him injuriously of those privileges and advantages to which, in common with his fellow citizens, he has a natural right...
Էջ 222 - History, by apprising them of the past, will enable them to judge of the future; it will avail them of the experience of other times and other nations; it will qualify them as judges of the actions and designs of men...
Էջ 27 - ... that in this place particularly they have been dammed up by the Blue Ridge of mountains, and have formed an ocean which filled the whole valley ; that continuing to rise they have at length broken over at this spot, and have torn the mountain down from...
Էջ 243 - And with what execration should the statesman be loaded, who, permitting one half the citizens thus to trample on the rights of the other, transforms those into despots, and these into enemies, destroys the morals of the one part, and the amor patriae of the other.
Էջ 243 - For if a slave can have a country in this world, it must be any other in preference to that in which he is born to live and labor for another...
Էջ 328 - ... 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...