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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... is a true contrast to the fore- ground . It is as placid and delightful , as that is wild and tremendous . For the mountain ' be- ing cloven asunder , she presents to your eye , through the cleft , a small catch of smooth blue [ 26 ]
... is a true contrast to the fore- ground . It is as placid and delightful , as that is wild and tremendous . For the mountain ' be- ing cloven asunder , she presents to your eye , through the cleft , a small catch of smooth blue [ 26 ]
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... present head , must not be pretermitted . It is on the ascent of a hill , which seems to have been cloven through its length by some great convulsion . The fissure , just at the bridge , is , by some admeasurements , 270 feet deep , by ...
... present head , must not be pretermitted . It is on the ascent of a hill , which seems to have been cloven through its length by some great convulsion . The fissure , just at the bridge , is , by some admeasurements , 270 feet deep , by ...
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... proceed horizontally . Two of them are wrought . at present by the public , the best of which is 100 yards under the hill . These would em- ploy about 50 labourers to advantage . We . have not , however , more than 30 generally , [ 34.
... proceed horizontally . Two of them are wrought . at present by the public , the best of which is 100 yards under the hill . These would em- ploy about 50 labourers to advantage . We . have not , however , more than 30 generally , [ 34.
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... present furnace is a mile from the ore bank , and on the opposite side of the river . The ore is first waggoned to the river , a quarter of a mile , then laden on board of canoes , and carri- ed across the river , which is there about ...
... present furnace is a mile from the ore bank , and on the opposite side of the river . The ore is first waggoned to the river , a quarter of a mile , then laden on board of canoes , and carri- ed across the river , which is there about ...
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... present level , and of course would overflow the lands to that height only . In Vir- ginia this would be a very small proportion even of the champaign country , the banks of our tide waters being frequently , if not general- ly of a ...
... present level , and of course would overflow the lands to that height only . In Vir- ginia this would be a very small proportion even of the champaign country , the banks of our tide waters being frequently , if not general- ly of a ...
Términos y frases comunes
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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...