Notes on the State of Virginia: With an Appendix Relative to the Murder of Logan's FamilyWilson & Blackwell, 1803 - 363 páginas |
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Página 150
... proclamation of July 15 , 1624 , and Charles I. took the government into his own hands . Both sides had their partizans in the colony ; but in truth the people of the colony in general thought themselves little concerned in the dispute ...
... proclamation of July 15 , 1624 , and Charles I. took the government into his own hands . Both sides had their partizans in the colony ; but in truth the people of the colony in general thought themselves little concerned in the dispute ...
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... proclamation in 1683 , he fixed the value of French crowns , rix dollars , and pieces of eight at six shillings , and the coin of New - England at one shilling . That in 1710 , 1714 , 1727 , and 1762 , other regula- tions were made ...
... proclamation in 1683 , he fixed the value of French crowns , rix dollars , and pieces of eight at six shillings , and the coin of New - England at one shilling . That in 1710 , 1714 , 1727 , and 1762 , other regula- tions were made ...
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... proclamation for restraint of the 1620 , June 29 , disordered trading of tobocco . 17. 18 Jac . 1 . Rym . 233 , A grant of New - England to the 1620 , Nov , 3 . council of Plymouth . Jac . I. An ordinance and constitution of the 1621 ...
... proclamation for restraint of the 1620 , June 29 , disordered trading of tobocco . 17. 18 Jac . 1 . Rym . 233 , A grant of New - England to the 1620 , Nov , 3 . council of Plymouth . Jac . I. An ordinance and constitution of the 1621 ...
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... proclamation concerning tobacco . 17. Rym . 621 . De concessione demiss , Edwardo Ditchfield et aliis . 17. Rym . 633 . A proclamation for the utter prohi- biting the importation and use of all tobacco which is not of the pro- per ...
... proclamation concerning tobacco . 17. Rym . 621 . De concessione demiss , Edwardo Ditchfield et aliis . 17. Rym . 633 . A proclamation for the utter prohi- biting the importation and use of all tobacco which is not of the pro- per ...
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... proclamation touching tobacco . Rym . 848 . 1626 , Feb. 17 . 2 Car 1 . A grant of Massachusetts bay by the 1627 , Mar 19 . council of Plymouth to Sir Henry qu ? 2 Car . I. Rosswell and others . De concessione commissionis spe- 1627 ...
... proclamation touching tobacco . Rym . 848 . 1626 , Feb. 17 . 2 Car 1 . A grant of Massachusetts bay by the 1627 , Mar 19 . council of Plymouth to Sir Henry qu ? 2 Car . I. Rosswell and others . De concessione commissionis spe- 1627 ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
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Passagens conhecidas
Página 219 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other.
Página 307 - Almighty power to do; that 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, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world, and through all time ; that to compel a man to furnish contributions...
Página 219 - The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to the worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities.
Página 223 - The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government, as sores do to the strength of the human body.
Página 309 - ... or support any religious worship, place or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested, or burthened in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer on account of his religious opinions or belief; but that all men shall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain, their opinions in matters of religion, and that the same shall in no wise diminish, enlarge, or affect their civil capacities.
Página 214 - The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
Página 220 - 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?
Página 30 - If the view from the top be painful and intolerable, that from below is delightful in an equal extreme. It is impossible for the emotions arising from the sublime to be felt beyond what they are here ; so beautiful an arch, so elevated, so light, and springing as it were up to heaven ! the rapture of the spectator is really indescribable...
Página 159 - For this reason that convention which passed the ordinance of government, laid its foundation on this basis, that the legislative, executive, and judiciary departments should be separate and distinct, so that no person should exercise the powers of more than one of them at the same time.
Página 145 - The Treasurer and company of Adventurers and Planters of the City of London for the first colony in Virginia...