The Virginia Historical Register, and Literary Advertiser, Volumes 1-2William Maxwell 1848 |
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... from Records , Journals , Diaries , Letters , In- scriptions , and other relics of the " olden time . ” It is true , our own private taste for such things is by no means extravagant We are not antiquaries , but only lovers of history.
... from Records , Journals , Diaries , Letters , In- scriptions , and other relics of the " olden time . ” It is true , our own private taste for such things is by no means extravagant We are not antiquaries , but only lovers of history.
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... true measure of our own duties as present actors on the stage . We cannot but be painfully sensible of the fact that she no longer holds the proud precedency , not in numbers merely , but in con- sideration and influence , which she ...
... true measure of our own duties as present actors on the stage . We cannot but be painfully sensible of the fact that she no longer holds the proud precedency , not in numbers merely , but in con- sideration and influence , which she ...
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... true lovers of their State and country . Nor is its instrumentality for this end con- fined to retrospections of the past , however animating and in- * Farewell Address . structive . The contemporary history of our own times , THE ...
... true lovers of their State and country . Nor is its instrumentality for this end con- fined to retrospections of the past , however animating and in- * Farewell Address . structive . The contemporary history of our own times , THE ...
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... true , our correspondent says , " the work was called Fort George , " and no doubt it was ; but when was it first called so ? It is not called so in the Act which he cites , nor in any other that we have seen . quære de hoc . So we say ...
... true , our correspondent says , " the work was called Fort George , " and no doubt it was ; but when was it first called so ? It is not called so in the Act which he cites , nor in any other that we have seen . quære de hoc . So we say ...
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... true to the cause of Liberty . Henceforth , whenever the State was free from invasion , the public authorities were as active in preparing the means of de- fence as our resources would allow ; and gradually a fleet of small vessels ...
... true to the cause of Liberty . Henceforth , whenever the State was free from invasion , the public authorities were as active in preparing the means of de- fence as our resources would allow ; and gradually a fleet of small vessels ...
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America annual army Assembly Barron British called Cape Cape Henry Capt Captain Catalogue Charles Colonel colony commanded Committee Company Congress copy Court Dear Sir doubt duty enemy England English favor France Fredericksburg friends frigate furnish gentlemen GEORGE BAYLOR give Governor hand happy hath History of Virginia honor hope horse hundred Indians interest Island James Barron James River Jamestown John kind king Lady Berkeley land late letter Liberty Lieut lived London Lord Camden Lord Chatham miles Nansemond river never North observe officers patriotic plantation planters present proper received Regiment residing RICHARD HENRY LEE Richmond sail sent serv't servant ship soon spirit stars thing Thos tion Tobacco town trees troops Virginia Historical Society Washington West Westmoreland William York
Passagens conhecidas
Página 200 - A lily of a day Is fairer far in May Although it fall and die that night; It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
Página 34 - Hull, Prepared from his Manuscripts, by his daughter, Mrs. Maria Campbell; together with the History of the Campaign of 1812, and Surrender of the Post of Detroit; by his Grandson, James Freeman Clarke.
Página 221 - Fear and trembling Hope, Silence and Foresight; Death the Skeleton And Time the Shadow ; — there to celebrate, As in a natural temple scattered o'er With altars undisturbed of mossy stone, United worship ; or in mute repose To lie, and listen to the mountain flood Murmuring from Glaramara's inmost caves.
Página 16 - Point of Cape Comfort, all along the Sea Coast, to the Southward two hundred Miles, and all that Space and Circuit of Land, lying from the Sea Coast of the Precinct aforesaid, up into the Land, throughout from Sea to Sea, West, and Northwest...
Página 90 - WOULDST thou from sorrow find a sweet relief? Or is thy heart oppressed with woes untold ! Balm wouldst thou gather for corroding grief? Pour blessings round thee like a shower of gold. — 'Tis when the rose is wrapt in many a fold Close to its heart, the worm is wasting there Its life and beauty; not when, all unrolled, Leaf after leaf, its bosom, rich and fair, Breathes freely its perfumes throughout the ambient air...
Página 16 - Comfort, all along the sea coast to the southward two hundred miles ; and all that space and circuit of land lying from the sea coast of the precinct aforesaid, up into the land throughout, from sea to sea, west and north-west...
Página 19 - How that he did divide from Pagans three Their Heads and Lives, Types of his Chivalry. For which great Service in that Climate done, Brave Sigismundus, King of Hungarion, Did give him as a Coat of Armes to wear, These Conquered Heads got by his Sword and Spear.
Página 180 - ... with a dissemination great as the unfoldings' of the air's looser garment, or the wilder fringes of the fire, without knots, or order, or combination; but God gathered the beams in his hand, and united them into a globe of fire, and all the light of the world became the body of the sun...
Página 113 - ... a peculiar people, marked and chosen by the finger of God, to possess it, for undoubtedly he is with us.
Página 18 - Three years, but we have reached it in ten months. This is the day wherein, to all my friends, I will pronounce the happy word, BE RICH ; THIS DAY YOU SHALL BE SPECTATISSIMI.