Notes on the State of VirginiaR.T. Rawle, 1801 - 495 страници |
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... These boun- daries include an area fomewhat triangular , of 121,525 fquare miles , whereof 79,650 lie weftward of the Alle- ghaney mountains , and 57,034 weftward of the me- ridian of the mouth of the Great Kanhaway . This ftate is ...
... These boun- daries include an area fomewhat triangular , of 121,525 fquare miles , whereof 79,650 lie weftward of the Alle- ghaney mountains , and 57,034 weftward of the me- ridian of the mouth of the Great Kanhaway . This ftate is ...
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... these , in fuch detached parcels as to have prevent- ed the inhabitants from availing themselves of it at all . James River , and its waters , afford navigation as follows : The whole of Elizabeth River , the lowest of those which run ...
... these , in fuch detached parcels as to have prevent- ed the inhabitants from availing themselves of it at all . James River , and its waters , afford navigation as follows : The whole of Elizabeth River , the lowest of those which run ...
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... these can but enter them . Rappahannock affords 4 fathom water to Hobb's hole , and 2 fathom from thence to Fredericksburg . » 1 Patowmac is 7 miles wide at the mouth ; 4 at Nomony bay ; 3 at Aquia ; at Halooing point at Alexandria ...
... these can but enter them . Rappahannock affords 4 fathom water to Hobb's hole , and 2 fathom from thence to Fredericksburg . » 1 Patowmac is 7 miles wide at the mouth ; 4 at Nomony bay ; 3 at Aquia ; at Halooing point at Alexandria ...
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... These floods begin in April , and the river returns into its banks early in Auguft . The inundation extends further on the western than eastern fide , cov- ering the lands in fome places for 50 miles from its banks , banks . Above the ...
... These floods begin in April , and the river returns into its banks early in Auguft . The inundation extends further on the western than eastern fide , cov- ering the lands in fome places for 50 miles from its banks , banks . Above the ...
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... these a first rate man of war may be carried from Louifville to New Orleans , if the fudden turns of the river and the ftrength of its current will admit a fafe fteerage . The rapids at Louisville descend about 30 feet in a length of a ...
... these a first rate man of war may be carried from Louifville to New Orleans , if the fudden turns of the river and the ftrength of its current will admit a fafe fteerage . The rapids at Louisville descend about 30 feet in a length of a ...
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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...
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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.
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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...