Notes on the State of Virginia: With an Appendix Relative to the Murder of Logan's FamilyWilson & Blackwell, 1803 - 363 Seiten |
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... carrying 50 , went there without lightening . Craney island , at the mouth of this river , commands its channel tolerably well . Nansemond River is navigable to Sleepy Hole , for vessels of 250 tons ; to Suffolk , for those of 100 tons ...
... carrying 50 , went there without lightening . Craney island , at the mouth of this river , commands its channel tolerably well . Nansemond River is navigable to Sleepy Hole , for vessels of 250 tons ; to Suffolk , for those of 100 tons ...
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... carried from Lou- isville to New Orleans , if the sudden turns of the river and strength of its current will admit a safe steerage . The rapids at Louisville de- scend about 30 feet in a length of a mile and a half . The bed of the ...
... carried from Lou- isville to New Orleans , if the sudden turns of the river and strength of its current will admit a safe steerage . The rapids at Louisville de- scend about 30 feet in a length of a mile and a half . The bed of the ...
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... carried to the furnace . This mode was . originally adopted , that they might avail them- selves of a good situation on a creek , for a pounding mill : but it would be easy to have the furnace and pounding mill on the same side of the ...
... carried to the furnace . This mode was . originally adopted , that they might avail them- selves of a good situation on a creek , for a pounding mill : but it would be easy to have the furnace and pounding mill on the same side of the ...
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... carried over the mountains west of the Missouri to a river which runs westwardly that these bones abounded there , and that the natives described to him the animal to which they belonged as still existing in the northern parts of their ...
... carried over the mountains west of the Missouri to a river which runs westwardly that these bones abounded there , and that the natives described to him the animal to which they belonged as still existing in the northern parts of their ...
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... carried thither as cu- riosities from more northern regions . So that on the whole there seem to be no certain vestiges of the existence of this animal further south than the salines last mentioned . It is remarkable that the tusks and ...
... carried thither as cu- riosities from more northern regions . So that on the whole there seem to be no certain vestiges of the existence of this animal further south than the salines last mentioned . It is remarkable that the tusks and ...
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Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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?
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 145 - The Treasurer and company of Adventurers and Planters of the City of London for the first colony in Virginia...