The History of Virginia: From Its First Settlement to the Present Day, Volumen 3author, 1805 |
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... causes , besides others that con- spire with them , particularly the nature of the soil . I. America extends further north than any other part of the world and by that means is so much colder . Europe is surrounded by the warmer ocean ...
... causes , besides others that con- spire with them , particularly the nature of the soil . I. America extends further north than any other part of the world and by that means is so much colder . Europe is surrounded by the warmer ocean ...
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... cause of the cold . They who attribute this to the woods do not distinguish between wet and cold , or the damps of wood - land frosts , which are very different things . These colds are so far from proceeding from the woods that one ...
... cause of the cold . They who attribute this to the woods do not distinguish between wet and cold , or the damps of wood - land frosts , which are very different things . These colds are so far from proceeding from the woods that one ...
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... causes of this change are obvious . The earth formerly covered with forest and choaked with leaves , weeds and underwood , is now turned up with the plough , and its chilled surface warm- ed by the beams of the sun . Channels are now in ...
... causes of this change are obvious . The earth formerly covered with forest and choaked with leaves , weeds and underwood , is now turned up with the plough , and its chilled surface warm- ed by the beams of the sun . Channels are now in ...
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... causes of this are to be found not in any difference of na- ture , but of circumstances . The women very fre- + quently attending the men in their parties of war and hunting , child bearing becomes extremely inconvenient to them . It is ...
... causes of this are to be found not in any difference of na- ture , but of circumstances . The women very fre- + quently attending the men in their parties of war and hunting , child bearing becomes extremely inconvenient to them . It is ...
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... cause of this appearance in their physical condition . As the parents are not exhausted or over fatigued with hard ... causes , but the true reasons of this appa- Beverley , Hist . Virg . p . 140 , I. CHAP . rent advantage which is ...
... cause of this appearance in their physical condition . As the parents are not exhausted or over fatigued with hard ... causes , but the true reasons of this appa- Beverley , Hist . Virg . p . 140 , I. CHAP . rent advantage which is ...
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Página 393 - I appeal to any white man to say, if ever he entered Logan's cabin hungry, and he gave him not meat; if ever he came cold and naked, and he clothed him not. During the course of the last long and bloody war, Logan remained idle in his cabin, an advocate for peace. Such was my love for the whites, that my countrymen pointed as they passed, and said, 'Logan is the friend of white men.
Página 393 - 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 harbor a thought that mine is the joy of fear.
Página 38 - I thank you in their name for bringing back into their country the calumet which your predecessor received from their hands. It was happy for you that you left under ground that murdering hatchet which has been so often dyed in the blood of the French.
Página 308 - That it is inseparably essential to the freedom of a people, and the undoubted right of Englishmen, that no taxes be imposed on them but with their own consent, given personally or by their representatives.
Página 321 - House to tax America, I was ill in bed. If I could have endured to have been carried in my bed, so great was the agitation of my mind for the consequences, I would have solicited some kind hand to have laid me down on this floor, to have borne my testimony against it.
Página 325 - I am one who will lift up my hands against it. In such a cause, your success would be hazardous. America, if she fell, would fall like the strong man. She would embrace the pillars of the state, and pull down the constitution along with her.
Página 324 - Parliament, with the statute book doubled down in dog's ears, to defend the cause of liberty. If I had, I myself would have cited the two cases of Chester and Durham. I would have cited them to show that, even under former arbitrary reigns, Parliaments were ashamed of taxing a people without their consent, and allowed them representatives.
Página 308 - That trial by jury, is the inherent and invaluable right of every British subject in these colonies. VIII. That the late act of parliament, entitled, An act for granting and applying certain stamp duties, and other duties, in the British colonies and plantations in America, etc...
Página 321 - There is an idea in some, that the colonies are virtually represented in this House. I would fain know by whom an American is represented here...
Página 309 - X. That as the profits of the trade of these colonies ultimately centre in Great Britain to pay for the manufactures which they are obliged to take from thence, they eventually contribute very largely to all supplies granted there to the crown.