Notes on the State of VirginiaR.T. Rawle, 1801 - 495 Seiten |
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... the records either of history or tradition , the bed of the ocean , the principal refidence of the fhelled tribe , has , by 2. Buffon Epoques , 96 . fome fome great convulfion of nature been heaved to the heights 44 NOTES ON VIRGINIA .
... the records either of history or tradition , the bed of the ocean , the principal refidence of the fhelled tribe , has , by 2. Buffon Epoques , 96 . fome fome great convulfion of nature been heaved to the heights 44 NOTES ON VIRGINIA .
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... tribe having vifited the governor of Vir- ginia , during the revolution ,, on matters of business , after thefe had been difcuffed and fettled in council , the governor afked them fome queftions relative to their country , and among ...
... tribe having vifited the governor of Vir- ginia , during the revolution ,, on matters of business , after thefe had been difcuffed and fettled in council , the governor afked them fome queftions relative to their country , and among ...
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... the Taniffee , relates , that , after being transferred through feveral tribes , from one to another , he was at length carried over the mountains weft weft of the Miffouri to a river which runs weftwardly ဝ NOTES ON VIRGINIA .
... the Taniffee , relates , that , after being transferred through feveral tribes , from one to another , he was at length carried over the mountains weft weft of the Miffouri to a river which runs weftwardly ဝ NOTES ON VIRGINIA .
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... tribes of Indians . Of these the Powhatans , the Mannahoacs , and Mona- cans , were the moft powerful . Those between the fea - coast and falls of the rivers , were in amity with one another , and attached to the Powhatans as their link ...
... tribes of Indians . Of these the Powhatans , the Mannahoacs , and Mona- cans , were the moft powerful . Those between the fea - coast and falls of the rivers , were in amity with one another , and attached to the Powhatans as their link ...
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Thomas Jefferson. was not the cafe between all the tribes , and probably that each spoke the language of the nation to which it was attached ; which we know to have been the cafe in many particular inftancès . Very poffibly there may ...
Thomas Jefferson. was not the cafe between all the tribes , and probably that each spoke the language of the nation to which it was attached ; which we know to have been the cafe in many particular inftancès . Very poffibly there may ...
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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...