An Historical, Geographical, Commercial, and Philosophical View of the United States of America, and of the European Settlements in America and the West-IndiesTiebout and O'Brien, 1796 - 519 Seiten |
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... hundred and fifty - nine thoufand , four hundred and eighty - eight pounds , five fhillings , dollars at 7/6 and the value of his manors and GENERAL DESCRIPTION.
... hundred and fifty - nine thoufand , four hundred and eighty - eight pounds , five fhillings , dollars at 7/6 and the value of his manors and GENERAL DESCRIPTION.
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... hundred and twenty - feven thoufand , four hundred and forty - one pounds of the fame money . * VIRGINI A. We have already , when treating of the difcovery of North , America , given a brief hiftory of the fettlement of this State to ...
... hundred and twenty - feven thoufand , four hundred and forty - one pounds of the fame money . * VIRGINI A. We have already , when treating of the difcovery of North , America , given a brief hiftory of the fettlement of this State to ...
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... hundred cattle and useful fupplies , He arrived in Auguft , and parties were fent out from James - town to form ... hundreds 6 GENERAL DESCRIPTION.
... hundred cattle and useful fupplies , He arrived in Auguft , and parties were fent out from James - town to form ... hundreds 6 GENERAL DESCRIPTION.
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... hundred and fettlement in the colony . The Affembly was to detemine by the majority of the voices then prefent , and to enact general laws for the colony , referving to the governor a negative voice . They were imitate the laws and ...
... hundred and fettlement in the colony . The Affembly was to detemine by the majority of the voices then prefent , and to enact general laws for the colony , referving to the governor a negative voice . They were imitate the laws and ...
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... hundred . From this place of rendezvous they fent out finall parties , by different roads , who entered the fettlement under the mask of friendship . At the change of the full moon all of them had agreed to begin their murderous ...
... hundred . From this place of rendezvous they fent out finall parties , by different roads , who entered the fettlement under the mask of friendship . At the change of the full moon all of them had agreed to begin their murderous ...
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Seite 109 - is an imitative animal. This quality is the germ of all education in him, from his cradle to his grave he is learning to do what he fees others do. If a parent could find no motive either in his philanthropy or his
Seite 109 - a country in this world, it muft be any other in preference to that in which he is born to live and labour for another; in which he muft lock up the faculties of his nature, contribute as far as depends
Seite 209 - in General Affembly freely given. XVII. That the people have a right to bear arms for the defence of the State ; and as (landing armies in time of peace are dangerous to liberty, they ought not to be kept up; and that the military
Seite 110 - I would not have a flave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I fleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That
Seite 114 - of the whole fcheme of education would be the teaching all the children of the State reading, writing, and common arithmetic ; turning out ten annually of fuperior genius, well taught in Greek, Latin, geography, and the higher branches of arithmetic ; turning out ten others annually, of
Seite 208 - laws, or the execution of laws, by any authority, without the confent of the representatives of the people, is injurious to their rights, and ought not
Seite 115 - Hiftory, by apprifing them of the paft, 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
Seite 209 - and as (landing armies in time of peace are dangerous to liberty, they ought not to be kept up; and that the military fhould be kept under
Seite 115 - is more important, none more legitimate, than that of rendering the people the fafe, as they are the ultimate, guardians of their own liberty : for this purpofe, the reading in the
Seite 212 - and continue to pofTefs in the county which he reprefents, not lefs than one hundred acres of land in fee, or for the term of his own life. VII. That all freemen of the age of twenty-one years, who have been inhabitants of any one county within the State twelve months immediately preceding the day of any election, and