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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... observation , I made , with a quadrant , a great number of trials on the angles of their de- clination , and found them to vary from 22 ° . to 60. but averaging all my trials , the result was within one - third of a degree of the ...
... observation , I made , with a quadrant , a great number of trials on the angles of their de- clination , and found them to vary from 22 ° . to 60. but averaging all my trials , the result was within one - third of a degree of the ...
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... observation as to have produ- ced a reduction into classes of the disorders which they relieve ; it is in my power to give little more than an enumeration of them . The most efficacious of these are two springs in Augusta , near the ...
... observation as to have produ- ced a reduction into classes of the disorders which they relieve ; it is in my power to give little more than an enumeration of them . The most efficacious of these are two springs in Augusta , near the ...
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... observations sufficient to decide this ques- tion . And though , till it be decided , we are as free to deny , as others are to affirm the fact , yet for a moment let it be supposed . The hy- pothesis , after this supposition , proceeds ...
... observations sufficient to decide this ques- tion . And though , till it be decided , we are as free to deny , as others are to affirm the fact , yet for a moment let it be supposed . The hy- pothesis , after this supposition , proceeds ...
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... observations on the quantity of rain , and degree of heat , being lengthy , confufed , and too minute to produce general and distinct ideas , I have taken five years ' observations , to wit , from 1772 to 1777 , made in Williamsburgh ...
... observations on the quantity of rain , and degree of heat , being lengthy , confufed , and too minute to produce general and distinct ideas , I have taken five years ' observations , to wit , from 1772 to 1777 , made in Williamsburgh ...
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... observations , made at Williamsburgh , or in its neighbourhood , and at Monticello , which is on the most eastern ridge of the mountains , called the South - west , where they are inter- sected by the Rivanna , haye furnished a ratio by ...
... observations , made at Williamsburgh , or in its neighbourhood , and at Monticello , which is on the most eastern ridge of the mountains , called the South - west , where they are inter- sected by the Rivanna , haye furnished a ratio by ...
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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...