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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... king and company quarrelled , and by a mixture of law and force , the latter were ousted of all their rights , without retribution , after having expended 100,000l . in establish- ing the colony , without the smallest aid from ...
... king and company quarrelled , and by a mixture of law and force , the latter were ousted of all their rights , without retribution , after having expended 100,000l . in establish- ing the colony , without the smallest aid from ...
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... king , and as having succeeded to all his powers , without as well as within the realm , began to assume a right over the colonies , passing an act for inhi biting their trade with foreign nations . This succession to the exercise of ...
... king , and as having succeeded to all his powers , without as well as within the realm , began to assume a right over the colonies , passing an act for inhi biting their trade with foreign nations . This succession to the exercise of ...
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... kings , and that we shall seck a new charter from the parliament to that purpose against any that have intrencht upon the rights thereof . 66 5ly . That all the patents of land granted under the colony seal by any of the precedent ...
... kings , and that we shall seck a new charter from the parliament to that purpose against any that have intrencht upon the rights thereof . 66 5ly . That all the patents of land granted under the colony seal by any of the precedent ...
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... king and council . Instead of four hundred miles on the sea coast , they were reduced , in the space of thirty years , to about one hundred miles . Their trade with foreign- ers was totally suppressed , and when carried to Great Britain ...
... king and council . Instead of four hundred miles on the sea coast , they were reduced , in the space of thirty years , to about one hundred miles . Their trade with foreign- ers was totally suppressed , and when carried to Great Britain ...
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... king William and queen Mary , who granted to it 20,000 acres of land , and a penny a pound duty on certain to- baccoes exported from Virginia and Maryland , which had been levied by the statute of 25 Car . II . The assembly also gave it ...
... king William and queen Mary , who granted to it 20,000 acres of land , and a penny a pound duty on certain to- baccoes exported from Virginia and Maryland , which had been levied by the statute of 25 Car . II . The assembly also gave it ...
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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...