Notes on the State of VirginiaR.T. Rawle, 1801 - 495 страници |
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... seems to want iron . Confiderable quantities of black lead are taken oc- cafionally for ufe from Winterham , in the county of Amelia . I am not able , however , to give a particu- lar state of the mine . There is no work established at ...
... seems to want iron . Confiderable quantities of black lead are taken oc- cafionally for ufe from Winterham , in the county of Amelia . I am not able , however , to give a particu- lar state of the mine . There is no work established at ...
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... seems per- verse to declare it the fame , from a partial refemblance of their tufks and bones . But to whatever animal we afcribe these remains , it is certain fuch a one has ex- isted in America , and that it has been the largest of ...
... seems per- verse to declare it the fame , from a partial refemblance of their tufks and bones . But to whatever animal we afcribe these remains , it is certain fuch a one has ex- isted in America , and that it has been the largest of ...
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... seems to ftand in the fame relation to the elk , as the red deer does to the fallow . It has abounded in Virginia , has been seen within my knowledge on the eastern side of the Blue ridge fince the year 1765 , is now common beyond those ...
... seems to ftand in the fame relation to the elk , as the red deer does to the fallow . It has abounded in Virginia , has been seen within my knowledge on the eastern side of the Blue ridge fince the year 1765 , is now common beyond those ...
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... seems to have fufpected that the cowardice which he had obferved in those of the prefent race might be the effect of fubjugation . But , fuppofing the Indians of North America to be cowards also , he concludes the an- ceftors of thofe ...
... seems to have fufpected that the cowardice which he had obferved in those of the prefent race might be the effect of fubjugation . But , fuppofing the Indians of North America to be cowards also , he concludes the an- ceftors of thofe ...
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... seems paf- fing to that awful diffolution , whofe iffue is not given human forefight to scan . * 33 Having * In a later edition of the Abbé Raynal's work , he has withdrawn his cenfure from that part of the new world inhabited by the ...
... seems paf- fing to that awful diffolution , whofe iffue is not given human forefight to scan . * 33 Having * In a later edition of the Abbé Raynal's work , he has withdrawn his cenfure from that part of the new world inhabited by the ...
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Страница 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.
Страница 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...
Страница 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...
Страница 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...
Страница 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...
Страница 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...
Страница 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...
Страница 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.
Страница 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...
Страница 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...