Notes on the State of Virginia: With an Appendix Relative to the Murder of Logan's FamilyWilson & Blackwell, 1803 - 363 pages |
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... supposed to be Pumice , found floating on the Missisipi , has induced a con- jecture , t that there is a volcano on some of its waters and as these are mostly known to their sources , except the Missouri , our expectations of verifying ...
... supposed to be Pumice , found floating on the Missisipi , has induced a con- jecture , t that there is a volcano on some of its waters and as these are mostly known to their sources , except the Missouri , our expectations of verifying ...
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... supposed to abound , and which yield sup- plies to the fountains of water , distinguished from others only by its being accessible . Th vault of this cave is of solid lime - stone , from 20 to 40 or 50 feet high , through which water is ...
... supposed to abound , and which yield sup- plies to the fountains of water , distinguished from others only by its being accessible . Th vault of this cave is of solid lime - stone , from 20 to 40 or 50 feet high , through which water is ...
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... supposed to have produced them . History renders probable some instances of a partial de- Iuge in the country lying round the Mediterra- nean sea . It has been often * supposed , and is not unlikely that that sea was once a lake . While ...
... supposed to have produced them . History renders probable some instances of a partial de- Iuge in the country lying round the Mediterra- nean sea . It has been often * supposed , and is not unlikely that that sea was once a lake . While ...
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... supposed to be the best on this side the Ohio . The salt springs on the margin of the Onondago lake áre said to give a saline taste to the waters of the lake . There are several medicinal springs , some of which are indubitably ...
... supposed to be the best on this side the Ohio . The salt springs on the margin of the Onondago lake áre said to give a saline taste to the waters of the lake . There are several medicinal springs , some of which are indubitably ...
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... supposed to have enlarged the botanical catalogue as much as almost any man who has lived . Besides these plants , which are native , our farms produce wheat , rye , barley , oats , buck- wheat , broom corn , and Indian corn . The cli ...
... supposed to have enlarged the botanical catalogue as much as almost any man who has lived . Besides these plants , which are native , our farms produce wheat , rye , barley , oats , buck- wheat , broom corn , and Indian corn . The cli ...
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Page 219 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other.
Page 307 - Almighty power to do; that 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, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world, and through all time ; that to compel a man to furnish contributions...
Page 219 - The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to the worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities.
Page 223 - The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government, as sores do to the strength of the human body.
Page 309 - ... or support any religious worship, place or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested, or burthened in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer on account of his religious opinions or belief; but that all men shall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain, their opinions in matters of religion, and that the same shall in no wise diminish, enlarge, or affect their civil capacities.
Page 214 - The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
Page 220 - 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?
Page 30 - If the view from the top be painful and intolerable, that from below is delightful in an equal extreme. It is impossible for the emotions arising from the sublime to be felt beyond what they are here ; so beautiful an arch, so elevated, so light, and springing as it were up to heaven ! the rapture of the spectator is really indescribable...
Page 159 - For this reason that convention which passed the ordinance of government, laid its foundation on this basis, that the legislative, executive, and judiciary departments should be separate and distinct, so that no person should exercise the powers of more than one of them at the same time.
Page 145 - The Treasurer and company of Adventurers and Planters of the City of London for the first colony in Virginia...