Notes on the State of Virginia: With an Appendix Relative to the Murder of Logan's FamilyWilson & Blackwell, 1803 - 363 páginas |
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... becomes much such a river as the Ohio , like it clear , and gentle in its current , not quite so wide , the period of its floods ... become a lake , 9 miles in length and one in width , into which the river at this day [ 11 ] Population,
... becomes much such a river as the Ohio , like it clear , and gentle in its current , not quite so wide , the period of its floods ... become a lake , 9 miles in length and one in width , into which the river at this day [ 11 ] Population,
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... become very passable for boats . It then admits . light boats , except in dry seasons , 65 miles further to the head of Tygart's valley , presenting only some small rapids and falls of one or two feet perpendicular , and lessening in ...
... become very passable for boats . It then admits . light boats , except in dry seasons , 65 miles further to the head of Tygart's valley , presenting only some small rapids and falls of one or two feet perpendicular , and lessening in ...
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... become hard when employed in build- ing . In this stone shells of various kinds wer produced , discoverable at first only with the mi- crocsope , but afterwards growing with the stone . From this fact , I suppose , he would have us ...
... become hard when employed in build- ing . In this stone shells of various kinds wer produced , discoverable at first only with the mi- crocsope , but afterwards growing with the stone . From this fact , I suppose , he would have us ...
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... become extinct ; of her hav- ing formed any link in her great work so weak as to be broken . To add to this , the tradition- ary testimony of the Indians , that this animal still exists in the northern and western parts of America ...
... become extinct ; of her hav- ing formed any link in her great work so weak as to be broken . To add to this , the tradition- ary testimony of the Indians , that this animal still exists in the northern and western parts of America ...
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... become less than their original stock , is doubtless true ; and the reason is very obvious . In a thinly peopled country , the spontaneous productions of the forests and waste fields are sufficient to support indifferently the domestic ...
... become less than their original stock , is doubtless true ; and the reason is very obvious . In a thinly peopled country , the spontaneous productions of the forests and waste fields are sufficient to support indifferently the domestic ...
Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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?
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 145 - The Treasurer and company of Adventurers and Planters of the City of London for the first colony in Virginia...