Notes on the State of VirginiaR.T. Rawle, 1801 - 495 páginas |
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... navigation may be imper- fectly noted . Roanoke , fo far as it lies within this state , is no where navigable but for canoes , or light batteaux ; and even for these , in fuch detached parcels as to have prevent- ed the inhabitants from ...
... navigation may be imper- fectly noted . Roanoke , fo far as it lies within this state , is no where navigable but for canoes , or light batteaux ; and even for these , in fuch detached parcels as to have prevent- ed the inhabitants from ...
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... navigation up Jackfon's river and Carpen ter's Creek , to within 25 miles of Howard's Creek of Green Briar , both of which have then water enough to float veffels into the Great Kanhaway . In fome future ftate of population , I think it ...
... navigation up Jackfon's river and Carpen ter's Creek , to within 25 miles of Howard's Creek of Green Briar , both of which have then water enough to float veffels into the Great Kanhaway . In fome future ftate of population , I think it ...
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... navigation for loaded flats to Brockman's bridge , fifty miles ábove Hannover town , and Mat- tapony to Downer's bridge , 70 miles above its mouth . Piankatank , the little rivers making out of Mob- jack Bay and thofe of the Eastern ...
... navigation for loaded flats to Brockman's bridge , fifty miles ábove Hannover town , and Mat- tapony to Downer's bridge , 70 miles above its mouth . Piankatank , the little rivers making out of Mob- jack Bay and thofe of the Eastern ...
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... navigation of 16 miles to its entrance into lake Michigan . The Illinois , about ten miles above its mouth , is 300 yards wide . The Kafkafkia is 100 yards wide at its entrance into the Miffifippi , and preferves that breadth to the ...
... navigation of 16 miles to its entrance into lake Michigan . The Illinois , about ten miles above its mouth , is 300 yards wide . The Kafkafkia is 100 yards wide at its entrance into the Miffifippi , and preferves that breadth to the ...
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... navigation . The rife of the waters in these rapids does not exceed 10 or 12 feet . A part of this ifland is fo high as to have been never overflowed , and to command the fettlement at Louisville , which is oppofite to it . The fort ...
... navigation . The rife of the waters in these rapids does not exceed 10 or 12 feet . A part of this ifland is fo high as to have been never overflowed , and to command the fettlement at Louisville , which is oppofite to it . The fort ...
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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...