Notes on the State of VirginiaR.T. Rawle, 1801 - 495 páginas |
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... continue three days , and then has been still left burning . The flame is unsteady , of the denfity of that of burning fpirits , and fmells like burning pit - coal . Water fome- times collects in the bafon , which is remarkably cold ...
... continue three days , and then has been still left burning . The flame is unsteady , of the denfity of that of burning fpirits , and fmells like burning pit - coal . Water fome- times collects in the bafon , which is remarkably cold ...
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... continue , we shall have between fix and seven millions of inhabitants within 95 years . If we sup◅ pose our country to be bounded , at fome future day , by the meridian of the mouth of the Great Kanha- way , ( within which it has been ...
... continue , we shall have between fix and seven millions of inhabitants within 95 years . If we sup◅ pose our country to be bounded , at fome future day , by the meridian of the mouth of the Great Kanha- way , ( within which it has been ...
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... continue as formerly granted , < 7ly , That the people of Virginia have free trade as the people of England do enjoy to all places and with all nations according to the lawes of that Com- on wealth , and that Virginia fhall enjoy all ...
... continue as formerly granted , < 7ly , That the people of Virginia have free trade as the people of England do enjoy to all places and with all nations according to the lawes of that Com- on wealth , and that Virginia fhall enjoy all ...
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... a convention , which fhould continue in office a year . This was done ac- cordingly in April 1775 , and in the July following that that convention paffed an ordinance for the election of delegates 176 NOTES ON VIRGINIA :
... a convention , which fhould continue in office a year . This was done ac- cordingly in April 1775 , and in the July following that that convention paffed an ordinance for the election of delegates 176 NOTES ON VIRGINIA :
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... continue with their parents to a certain age , then be brought up at the public expenfe , to tillage , arts or sciences , according to their geniufes , till the fe- males should be eighteen , and the males twenty - one years of age ...
... continue with their parents to a certain age , then be brought up at the public expenfe , to tillage , arts or sciences , according to their geniufes , till the fe- males should be eighteen , and the males twenty - one years of age ...
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Página 96 - 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 harbour a thought that mine is the joy of fear.
Página 243 - 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 ? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath ? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just ; that his justice cannot sleep forever...
Página 328 - Almighty God hath created the mind free; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the Holy author of our religion...
Página 328 - ... all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, who being lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in His almighty power to do...
Página 329 - ... that our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry; that therefore the proscribing any citizen as unworthy the public confidence by laying upon him an incapacity of being called to offices of trust and emolument unless he profess or renounce this or that religious opinion is depriving him injuriously of those privileges and advantages to which, in common with his fellow citizens, he has a natural right...
Página 222 - History, by apprising them of the past, 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 as judges of the actions and designs of men...
Página 27 - ... that in this place particularly they have been dammed up by the Blue Ridge of mountains, and have formed an ocean which filled the whole valley ; that continuing to rise they have at length broken over at this spot, and have torn the mountain down from...
Página 243 - And with what execration should the statesman be loaded, who, permitting one half the citizens thus to trample on the rights of the other, transforms those into despots, and these into enemies, destroys the morals of the one part, and the amor patriae of the other.
Página 243 - For if a slave can have a country in this world, it must be any other in preference to that in which he is born to live and labor for another...
Página 328 - ... 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...