Notes on the State of Virginia: With an Appendix Relative to the Murder of Logan's FamilyWilson & Blackwell, 1803 - 363 páginas |
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Página 42
... existence of any natural agents with- in or without the bowels of the earth , of force sufficient to heave , to the height of 15,000 feet , such masses as the Andes . The difference between the power necessary to produce such an effect ...
... existence of any natural agents with- in or without the bowels of the earth , of force sufficient to heave , to the height of 15,000 feet , such masses as the Andes . The difference between the power necessary to produce such an effect ...
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... existence of a power , of which we have no evidence in any other case ; or on the first , which requires us to believe the creation of a body of water and its subsequent annihilation ? The establish- ment of the instance , cited by M ...
... existence of a power , of which we have no evidence in any other case ; or on the first , which requires us to believe the creation of a body of water and its subsequent annihilation ? The establish- ment of the instance , cited by M ...
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... existence of this animal further south than the salines last mentioned . It is remarkable that the tusks and skeletons have been ascribed by the naturalists of Europe to the elephant , while the grinders have been given to the hip ...
... existence of this animal further south than the salines last mentioned . It is remarkable that the tusks and skeletons have been ascribed by the naturalists of Europe to the elephant , while the grinders have been given to the hip ...
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... existence of these sup- posed elephants 250,000 years back , a period far beyond our conception of the duration of animal bones left exposed to the open air , as these are in many instances . Besides , though these regions would then be ...
... existence of these sup- posed elephants 250,000 years back , a period far beyond our conception of the duration of animal bones left exposed to the open air , as these are in many instances . Besides , though these regions would then be ...
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... existence and multipli- cation of the elephant known to us . Proceed- ing thence northwardly to 36 degrees , we en- ter those assigned to the mammoth . The fur- ther we advance north , the more their vestiges multiply as far as the ...
... existence and multipli- cation of the elephant known to us . Proceed- ing thence northwardly to 36 degrees , we en- ter those assigned to the mammoth . The fur- ther we advance north , the more their vestiges multiply as far as the ...
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Pasajes populares
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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?
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 145 - The Treasurer and company of Adventurers and Planters of the City of London for the first colony in Virginia...