The Virginia Historical Register, and Literary Advertiser, Volúmenes 1-2William Maxwell 1848 |
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... never agreed better to frame a place for man's habitation , were it fully cultivated and inhabited by industrious people . Here are moun- tains , hills , plains , valleys , rivers and brooks , all running most pleasantly into a fair Bay ...
... never agreed better to frame a place for man's habitation , were it fully cultivated and inhabited by industrious people . Here are moun- tains , hills , plains , valleys , rivers and brooks , all running most pleasantly into a fair Bay ...
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... never permit us to take wil- lingly the rear of our contemporaries . In invoking a noble State ambition on behalf of our ancient Commonwealth , I am far from wishing to encourage any feeling of an anti - national character , which could ...
... never permit us to take wil- lingly the rear of our contemporaries . In invoking a noble State ambition on behalf of our ancient Commonwealth , I am far from wishing to encourage any feeling of an anti - national character , which could ...
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... never - fading lustre , to preside in the meetings of this Society . The same noble objects early commended it to the favor of the Legislature , which bestowed upon it a liberal act of incorporation ; and , if we shall now pursue thom ...
... never - fading lustre , to preside in the meetings of this Society . The same noble objects early commended it to the favor of the Legislature , which bestowed upon it a liberal act of incorporation ; and , if we shall now pursue thom ...
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... never have been elected Gov- ernor . The bricks appear to have been home - made ; they were well burned but rough , 9 inches long , 4 wide and 3 thick . The lime was probably burned in the neighbourhood ; most probably on the farm where ...
... never have been elected Gov- ernor . The bricks appear to have been home - made ; they were well burned but rough , 9 inches long , 4 wide and 3 thick . The lime was probably burned in the neighbourhood ; most probably on the farm where ...
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... never failing source of employment to the young- sters of the time , and it was by no means uncommon to see boys of ten years of age , on board a ship that had made two or three voyages ; and the most respectable families in the lower ...
... never failing source of employment to the young- sters of the time , and it was by no means uncommon to see boys of ten years of age , on board a ship that had made two or three voyages ; and the most respectable families in the lower ...
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America annual army Assembly Barron British called Cape Cape Henry Capt Captain Catalogue Charles Colonel colony commanded Committee Company Congress copy Court Dear Sir doubt duty enemy England English favor France Fredericksburg friends frigate furnish gentlemen GEORGE BAYLOR give Governor hand happy hath History of Virginia honor hope horse hundred Indians interest Island James Barron James River Jamestown John kind king Lady Berkeley land late letter Liberty Lieut lived London Lord Camden Lord Chatham miles Nansemond river never North observe officers patriotic plantation planters present proper received Regiment residing RICHARD HENRY LEE Richmond sail sent serv't servant ship soon spirit stars thing Thos tion Tobacco town trees troops Virginia Historical Society Washington West Westmoreland William York
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Página 200 - A lily of a day Is fairer far in May Although it fall and die that night; It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
Página 34 - Hull, Prepared from his Manuscripts, by his daughter, Mrs. Maria Campbell; together with the History of the Campaign of 1812, and Surrender of the Post of Detroit; by his Grandson, James Freeman Clarke.
Página 221 - Fear and trembling Hope, Silence and Foresight; Death the Skeleton And Time the Shadow ; — there to celebrate, As in a natural temple scattered o'er With altars undisturbed of mossy stone, United worship ; or in mute repose To lie, and listen to the mountain flood Murmuring from Glaramara's inmost caves.
Página 16 - Point of Cape Comfort, all along the Sea Coast, to the Southward two hundred Miles, and all that Space and Circuit of Land, lying from the Sea Coast of the Precinct aforesaid, up into the Land, throughout from Sea to Sea, West, and Northwest...
Página 90 - WOULDST thou from sorrow find a sweet relief? Or is thy heart oppressed with woes untold ! Balm wouldst thou gather for corroding grief? Pour blessings round thee like a shower of gold. — 'Tis when the rose is wrapt in many a fold Close to its heart, the worm is wasting there Its life and beauty; not when, all unrolled, Leaf after leaf, its bosom, rich and fair, Breathes freely its perfumes throughout the ambient air...
Página 16 - Comfort, all along the sea coast to the southward two hundred miles ; and all that space and circuit of land lying from the sea coast of the precinct aforesaid, up into the land throughout, from sea to sea, west and north-west...
Página 19 - How that he did divide from Pagans three Their Heads and Lives, Types of his Chivalry. For which great Service in that Climate done, Brave Sigismundus, King of Hungarion, Did give him as a Coat of Armes to wear, These Conquered Heads got by his Sword and Spear.
Página 180 - ... with a dissemination great as the unfoldings' of the air's looser garment, or the wilder fringes of the fire, without knots, or order, or combination; but God gathered the beams in his hand, and united them into a globe of fire, and all the light of the world became the body of the sun...
Página 113 - ... a peculiar people, marked and chosen by the finger of God, to possess it, for undoubtedly he is with us.
Página 18 - Three years, but we have reached it in ten months. This is the day wherein, to all my friends, I will pronounce the happy word, BE RICH ; THIS DAY YOU SHALL BE SPECTATISSIMI.