An Historical, Geographical, Commercial, and Philosophical View of the American United States, and of the European Settlements in America and the West-Indies, Volume 3editor; J. Ridgeway, 1795 |
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... side of the Ohio is allowed by all travellers to be a moft fertile level country , and well- watered . The foil of Kentucky is of a loose , deep black mould , without fand , in the first rate lands , about two or three feet deep , and ...
... side of the Ohio is allowed by all travellers to be a moft fertile level country , and well- watered . The foil of Kentucky is of a loose , deep black mould , without fand , in the first rate lands , about two or three feet deep , and ...
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... side ; whereon , springing round , he bounded over the Ohio , the Wabash , the Illinois , and , finally , over the great lakes , where he is living at this day . Colone ! vered than the memorials above related . The following tradition ...
... side ; whereon , springing round , he bounded over the Ohio , the Wabash , the Illinois , and , finally , over the great lakes , where he is living at this day . Colone ! vered than the memorials above related . The following tradition ...
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... side , which are , according to the plan , one hundred feet wide and two hundred feet deep , and the houses to be built re- gularly , according to the taste of the proprietors , on a line twenty- five feet distant from the streets ; and ...
... side , which are , according to the plan , one hundred feet wide and two hundred feet deep , and the houses to be built re- gularly , according to the taste of the proprietors , on a line twenty- five feet distant from the streets ; and ...
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... side of the Miffiffippi , which were within the original charter bounds of that State . CLIMATE . The western hilly parts of this State are as healthy as any of the United States . The country is fertile , full of fprings and rivulets ...
... side of the Miffiffippi , which were within the original charter bounds of that State . CLIMATE . The western hilly parts of this State are as healthy as any of the United States . The country is fertile , full of fprings and rivulets ...
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... side of farming ; the value of the produce of America is much higher than in England , when the lightness of the taxes , and the cheapness and fertility of the land are confidered . Among farmers , there is not , as in great towns , a ...
... side of farming ; the value of the produce of America is much higher than in England , when the lightness of the taxes , and the cheapness and fertility of the land are confidered . Among farmers , there is not , as in great towns , a ...
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Página 48 - That no man shall be taken or imprisoned, or disseized of his freehold, liberties or privileges, or outlawed or exiled, or in any manner destroyed, or deprived of his life, liberty, or property, but by the judgment of his peers, or the law of the land.
Página 48 - ... to be allowed counsel ; to be confronted with the witnesses against him ; to have process for his witnesses ; to examine the witnesses for and against him on oath ; and to a speedy trial by an impartial jury without whose unanimous consent he ought not to be found guilty.
Página 65 - Pennsylvania as a free and independent state, and that I will not at any time do or cause to be done any matter or thing that will be prejudicial or injurious to the freedom and independence thereof, as declared by Congress; and also that I will discover and make known to some...
Página 113 - I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.
Página 216 - That all power of suspending laws, or the execution of laws, by any authority, without consent of the representatives of the people, is injurious to their rights, and ought not to be exercised.
Página 140 - That in ancient times a herd of these tremendous animals came to the Bigbone licks, and began an universal destruction of the bear, deer, elks, buffaloes, and other animals which had been created for the use of the Indians...
Página 118 - 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...
Página 118 - Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves therefore are its only safe depositories ; and to render even them safe, their minds must be improved to a certain degree. This indeed is not all that is necessary, though it be essentially necessary.
Página 220 - ... inhabitants of any one county within the state twelve months immediately preceding the day of any election, and possessed of a freehold within the same county of fifty acres of land, for six months next before and at the day of election, shall be entitled to vote for a member of the Senate ;
Página 64 - Judge), that I will not, directly or indirectly, receive the profits or any part of the profits, of any other office during the term of my acting as . SEC.