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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... tion as follows : The whole of Elizabeth River , the lowest of those which run into James River , is a harbor , and would contain upwards of 300 ships . The channel is from 150 to 200 fathom wide , and at common flood tide , affords 18 ...
... tion as follows : The whole of Elizabeth River , the lowest of those which run into James River , is a harbor , and would contain upwards of 300 ships . The channel is from 150 to 200 fathom wide , and at common flood tide , affords 18 ...
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... tion with the South - west mountains , which is about 22 miles ; and may easily be opened to . navigation through these mountains to its fork above Charlottesville . York River , at York town , affords the best harbor in the State for ...
... tion with the South - west mountains , which is about 22 miles ; and may easily be opened to . navigation through these mountains to its fork above Charlottesville . York River , at York town , affords the best harbor in the State for ...
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... tion of the pebble stones carried on with that , so as to be passable for batteaux through the greater part of the year . Yet it is thought that the southern arm may be the most easily open- ed for constant navigation . The rise of the ...
... tion of the pebble stones carried on with that , so as to be passable for batteaux through the greater part of the year . Yet it is thought that the southern arm may be the most easily open- ed for constant navigation . The rise of the ...
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... as well as their load- ing , the navigators returning by land or in light batteaux . There will therefore be a competi- tion between the Hudson and Patowmac rivers for the residue of the commerce of all the coun- [ 21 ]
... as well as their load- ing , the navigators returning by land or in light batteaux . There will therefore be a competi- tion between the Hudson and Patowmac rivers for the residue of the commerce of all the coun- [ 21 ]
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... tion generally are the veins of limestone , coal , and other minerals hitherto discovered : and so range the falls of our great rivers . But the course of the great rivers are at right angles with these . James and Patowmac penetrate ...
... tion generally are the veins of limestone , coal , and other minerals hitherto discovered : and so range the falls of our great rivers . But the course of the great rivers are at right angles with these . James and Patowmac penetrate ...
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Beliebte Passagen
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...