The Virginia Historical Register, and Literary Note Book, Volumes 3-4William Maxwell proprietor, 1850 |
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... Answer . There is a governor and sixteen counsellors , who have from his sacred majestie , a commission of Oyer and Terminer , who judge and determine all causes that are above fifteen pound sterling ; for what is under , there are ...
... Answer . There is a governor and sixteen counsellors , who have from his sacred majestie , a commission of Oyer and Terminer , who judge and determine all causes that are above fifteen pound sterling ; for what is under , there are ...
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... Answer . In the governor , councel and assembly , and officers substituted by them . 4 . What statute laws and ordinances are now made and in force ? Answer . The secretary of this country every year sends to the lord chancellor , or ...
... Answer . In the governor , councel and assembly , and officers substituted by them . 4 . What statute laws and ordinances are now made and in force ? Answer . The secretary of this country every year sends to the lord chancellor , or ...
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... Answer . None to our knowledge , since the late Dutch war . 8. What is the strength of your bordering neighbours , be they Indians or others , by sea and land ; what corres- pondence do you keep with your neighbours ? Answer . We have ...
... Answer . None to our knowledge , since the late Dutch war . 8. What is the strength of your bordering neighbours , be they Indians or others , by sea and land ; what corres- pondence do you keep with your neighbours ? Answer . We have ...
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... Answer . Besides those guns I mentioned , we never had any monies of his majesty towards the buying of ammuni- tion or building of fforts . What monies can be spared out of the publick revenue , we yearly lay out in ammunition . 11 ...
... Answer . Besides those guns I mentioned , we never had any monies of his majesty towards the buying of ammuni- tion or building of fforts . What monies can be spared out of the publick revenue , we yearly lay out in ammunition . 11 ...
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... Answer . Salt - petre , we know of none in the country . 14. What rivers , harbours or roads are there in or about your plantation and government , and of what depth and soundings are they ? Answer . Rivers , we have four , as I named ...
... Answer . Salt - petre , we know of none in the country . 14. What rivers , harbours or roads are there in or about your plantation and government , and of what depth and soundings are they ? Answer . Rivers , we have four , as I named ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
Accompt afterwards Alexander Spotswood American answer appears appointed Assembly Bacon Barron British Byrd called Capt Champe Charles church College Colonel Colony command Commodore Congress copy Council Court Creek Dear enemy England father friends Gen'll gentlemen George Governor Governor of Virginia hand Henry Honour hope horse House of Burgesses Hugh Drysdale hundred Indians interest James Barron James River James town Josiah Parker King land late letter Lewis lived Lord Majesty Mason meeting miles militia never Norfolk occasion officers patriotic persons piculs plantation Pocahontas present President received Richmond Robert Robert Bolling Samuel Samuel Barron sent ship Society soon Speaker speech Staunton Temperance thing Thomas tion tobacco town troops VIRGINIA HISTORICAL Virginia Historical Society Washington William William Byrd Williamsburg York
Passagens conhecidas
Página 60 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for not without dust and heat.
Página 228 - This shall be written for the generation to come; and the people which shall be created shall praise the Lord.
Página 140 - I behold like a Spanish great galleon and an English man-of-war. Master Coleridge, like the former, was built far higher in learning, solid, but slow in his performances. CVL, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about, and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention.
Página 13 - I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these, hundred years ; for learning has brought disobedience, and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both l William Waller Hening, Statutes at Large (New York, 1823), II, 511-517.
Página 140 - Then to the well-trod stage anon If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild.
Página 37 - The historic muse, Proud of the treasure, marches with it down To latest times ; and Sculpture, in her turn, Gives bond in stone and ever-during brass To guard them, and to immortalize her trust.
Página 83 - Pass by his troubled senses; sing his pain Like hollow murmuring wind, or silver rain: Into this prince, gently, oh gently slide, And kiss him into slumbers, like a bride.
Página 12 - The same course that is taken in England out of towns; every man according to his ability instructing his children.
Página 108 - The more carefully we examine the history of the past, the more reason shall we find to dissent from those who imagine that our age has been fruitful of new social evils. The truth is, that the evils are, with scarcely an exception, old.
Página 75 - Being born to one of the amplest fortunes in this country, he was sent early to England for his education, where, under the care and direction of Sir Robert Southwell, and ever favored with his particular instructions, he made a happy proficiency in polite and various learning. By the means of the same noble friend he was introduced to the acquaintance of many of the first persons of...