Notes on the State of VirginiaR.T. Rawle, 1801 - 495 Seiten |
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... person free from injury ; or perhaps this is nature ; while it is education which teaches us to * honor force more than fineffe : that he will defend himself against an host of enemies , always choofing to be killed , rather thant to ...
... person free from injury ; or perhaps this is nature ; while it is education which teaches us to * honor force more than fineffe : that he will defend himself against an host of enemies , always choofing to be killed , rather thant to ...
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... person who died was placed erect , and earth put about him , fo as to cover and fupport him ; that when another died , a narrow paffage was dug to the first , the fecond reclined against him , and the cov- er of earth replaced , and fo ...
... person who died was placed erect , and earth put about him , fo as to cover and fupport him ; that when another died , a narrow paffage was dug to the first , the fecond reclined against him , and the cov- er of earth replaced , and fo ...
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... persons who fhould confent to go , freeing them for ever from all taxes and impofitions on any goods or merchandise on importations into the col- ony , or exportation out of it , except the five per cent . due on all goods imported into ...
... persons who fhould confent to go , freeing them for ever from all taxes and impofitions on any goods or merchandise on importations into the col- ony , or exportation out of it , except the five per cent . due on all goods imported into ...
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... person transported in that collonie fhall continue as formerly granted , < 7ly , That the people of Virginia have free trade as the people of England do enjoy to all places and with all nations according to the lawes of that Com- on ...
... person transported in that collonie fhall continue as formerly granted , < 7ly , That the people of Virginia have free trade as the people of England do enjoy to all places and with all nations according to the lawes of that Com- on ...
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... person from the beginning of the world to this daye . And this wee have done that all the inhab itants of the collonie may live quietly & fecurely un- der the Comon wealth of England . And wee do promife that the parliament and comon ...
... person from the beginning of the world to this daye . And this wee have done that all the inhab itants of the collonie may live quietly & fecurely un- der the Comon wealth of England . And wee do promife that the parliament and comon ...
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Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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...
Seite 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...
Seite 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...
Seite 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...
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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...