Notes on the State of VirginiaR.T. Rawle, 1801 - 495 páginas |
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... heads far weftward of the Rio Norte , or North River . There is , in the villages of Kafkafkia , Cohoes and St. Vicennes , no in- confiderable quantity of plate , faid to have been plun- dered during the laft war by the Indians from the ...
... heads far weftward of the Rio Norte , or North River . There is , in the villages of Kafkafkia , Cohoes and St. Vicennes , no in- confiderable quantity of plate , faid to have been plun- dered during the laft war by the Indians from the ...
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... head of the falls . The ground on the fouth fide rises very gradually . The Taniffee , Cherokee or Hogohege River is 600 yards wide at its mouth , of a mile at the mouth of Holfton , and 200 yards at Chotee , which is 20 miles above ...
... head of the falls . The ground on the fouth fide rises very gradually . The Taniffee , Cherokee or Hogohege River is 600 yards wide at its mouth , of a mile at the mouth of Holfton , and 200 yards at Chotee , which is 20 miles above ...
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... head of its navigation to its mouth . The Wabash is a very beautiful river , 400 yards wide at the mouth , and 300 at St. Vincennes , which 1 is a poft 100 miles above the mouth , C is NOTES ON VIRGINIA : 17 Religion,
... head of its navigation to its mouth . The Wabash is a very beautiful river , 400 yards wide at the mouth , and 300 at St. Vincennes , which 1 is a poft 100 miles above the mouth , C is NOTES ON VIRGINIA : 17 Religion,
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... head waters of James River . Neverthe- lefs , it is doubtful whether its great and numerous rapids will admit a navigation , but at an expense to which it will require ages to render its inhabitants . equal . $ equal . The great ...
... head waters of James River . Neverthe- lefs , it is doubtful whether its great and numerous rapids will admit a navigation , but at an expense to which it will require ages to render its inhabitants . equal . $ equal . The great ...
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... head of Tygart's Valley , presenting only fome small rapids and fails of one or two feet perpendicular , and leffening in its width to 20 yards . The Western Fork is navigable in the winter 10 or 15 miles towards the northern of the ...
... head of Tygart's Valley , presenting only fome small rapids and fails of one or two feet perpendicular , and leffening in its width to 20 yards . The Western Fork is navigable in the winter 10 or 15 miles towards the northern of 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...