Notes on the State of VirginiaR.T. Rawle, 1801 - 495 páginas |
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... 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 mile and ...
... 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 mile and ...
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... first be brought into Lake Erié . Between Lake Superior and its wa- ters , and Huron , are the rapids of St. Mary , which will permit boats to pass , but not larger veffels . Lakes Huron and Michigan afford communication with Lake Erié ...
... first be brought into Lake Erié . Between Lake Superior and its wa- ters , and Huron , are the rapids of St. Mary , which will permit boats to pass , but not larger veffels . Lakes Huron and Michigan afford communication with Lake Erié ...
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... first of which between Cayahoga and Beaver may be removed by uniting the fources of these waters ; which are lakes in the neighborhood of each other , and in a champaign country ; the other from the wa- ters of Ohio to Patowmac will be ...
... first of which between Cayahoga and Beaver may be removed by uniting the fources of these waters ; which are lakes in the neighborhood of each other , and in a champaign country ; the other from the wa- ters of Ohio to Patowmac will be ...
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... first glance of this scene hurries our fenfes into the opinion , that this earth has been created in time , that the mountains were formed first , that the rivers began to flow afterwards , that in this place particularly they have been ...
... first glance of this scene hurries our fenfes into the opinion , that this earth has been created in time , that the mountains were formed first , that the rivers began to flow afterwards , that in this place particularly they have been ...
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... first waggoned to the river , a quarter of a mile , then laden on board of canoes , and carried across the river , which is there about 200 lis JA PAIKɔ tr.1 , esbispo9ge yards wide , and then again taken into waggons and carried to the ...
... first waggoned to the river , a quarter of a mile , then laden on board of canoes , and carried across the river , which is there about 200 lis JA PAIKɔ tr.1 , esbispo9ge yards wide , and then again taken into waggons and carried to the ...
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Página 96 - There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it: I have killed many: I have fully glutted my vengeance: for my country I rejoice at the beams of peace. But do not harbour a thought that mine is the joy of fear.
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 222 - History, by apprising them of the past, will enable them to judge of the future; it will avail them of the experience of other times and other nations; it will qualify them as judges of the actions and designs of men...
Página 27 - ... that in this place particularly they have been dammed up by the Blue Ridge of mountains, and have formed an ocean which filled the whole valley ; that continuing to rise they have at length broken over at this spot, and have torn the mountain down from...
Página 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.
Página 243 - For if a slave can have a country in this world, it must be any other in preference to that in which he is born to live and labor for another...
Página 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...