Notes on the State of VirginiaR.T. Rawle, 1801 - 495 Seiten |
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... yards , and up Mattapony to within two miles of Frazer's ferry , where it becomes 2 fathom deep , and holds that about five miles . Pamunkey is then capable of navigation for loaded flats to Brockman's bridge , fifty miles ábove ...
... yards , and up Mattapony to within two miles of Frazer's ferry , where it becomes 2 fathom deep , and holds that about five miles . Pamunkey is then capable of navigation for loaded flats to Brockman's bridge , fifty miles ábove ...
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... yards wide . The Kafkafkia is 100 yards wide at its entrance into the Miffifippi , and preferves that breadth to the Buffalo plains , 70 miles above . So far alfo it is navigable for load- ed batteaux , and perhaps much further . It is ...
... yards wide . The Kafkafkia is 100 yards wide at its entrance into the Miffifippi , and preferves that breadth to the Buffalo plains , 70 miles above . So far alfo it is navigable for load- ed batteaux , and perhaps much further . It is ...
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Thomas Jefferson. It is a of a mile wide at Fort Pitt : 500 Yards at the mouth of the Great Kanhaway : 1 Mile and 25 poles at Louisville : Of a mile on the rapids , three or four miles below Louisville : A mile where the low country ...
Thomas Jefferson. It is a of a mile wide at Fort Pitt : 500 Yards at the mouth of the Great Kanhaway : 1 Mile and 25 poles at Louisville : Of a mile on the rapids , three or four miles below Louisville : A mile where the low country ...
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... yards wide , and is dry four months in the year . The bed of the northern branch is worn into channels by the ... yards wide at its mouth , of a mile at the mouth of Holfton , and 200 yards at Chotee , which is 20 miles above Holfton ...
... yards wide , and is dry four months in the year . The bed of the northern branch is worn into channels by the ... yards wide at its mouth , of a mile at the mouth of Holfton , and 200 yards at Chotee , which is 20 miles above Holfton ...
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... yards wide through its whole course , from the 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 ...
... yards wide through its whole course , from the 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 ...
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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...