The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2Issued under the auspices of the Thomas Jefferson memorial association of the United States, 1903 |
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... feet to the degree . This being our comprehension of longi- tude , that of our latitude , taken between this and Mason and Dixon's line , is 3 ° 13 ′ 42.4 " equal to two hundred and twenty - three and one - third miles , supposing a ...
... feet to the degree . This being our comprehension of longi- tude , that of our latitude , taken between this and Mason and Dixon's line , is 3 ° 13 ′ 42.4 " equal to two hundred and twenty - three and one - third miles , supposing a ...
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... feet water to Smithfield , which admits vessels of twenty tons . Chickahominy has at its mouth a bar , on which is only twelve feet water at common flood tide . Ves- sels passing that , may go eight miles up the river ; those of ten feet ...
... feet water to Smithfield , which admits vessels of twenty tons . Chickahominy has at its mouth a bar , on which is only twelve feet water at common flood tide . Ves- sels passing that , may go eight miles up the river ; those of ten feet ...
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... feet water to Richmond ; and about the centre of the town , four feet and a half , where the navigation is interrupted by falls , which in a course of six miles , descend about eighty- eight feet perpendicular ; above these it is ...
... feet water to Richmond ; and about the centre of the town , four feet and a half , where the navigation is interrupted by falls , which in a course of six miles , descend about eighty- eight feet perpendicular ; above these it is ...
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... feet water to the falls , which are thirteen miles above Alexandria . These falls are fifteen miles in length , and of very great descent , and the navigation above them for batteaux and canoes is so much interrupted as to be little ...
... feet water to the falls , which are thirteen miles above Alexandria . These falls are fifteen miles in length , and of very great descent , and the navigation above them for batteaux and canoes is so much interrupted as to be little ...
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... feet water to the mouth of the Ohio , to which place it is from one and a half to two miles wide , and thence to Kaskaskia from one mile to a mile and a quarter wide . Its current is so rapid , that it never can be stemmed by the force ...
... feet water to the mouth of the Ohio , to which place it is from one and a half to two miles wide , and thence to Kaskaskia from one mile to a mile and a quarter wide . Its current is so rapid , that it never can be stemmed by the force ...
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Page 231 - Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever He had a chosen people, whose breasts He has made His peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue.
Page 304 - ... that it is time enough for the rightful purposes of civil government, for its officers to interfere when principles break out into overt acts against peace and good order...
Page xx - Excudent alii spirantia mollius aera, credo equidem, vivos ducent de marmore vultus, orabunt causas melius, caelique meatus describent radio et surgentia sidera dicent: 850 tu regere imperio populos, Romane, memento; hae tibi erunt artes; pacisque imponere morem, parcere subiectis et debellare superbos.
Page 153 - The Treasurer and Company of Adventurers and Planters of the city of London, for the first colony of Virginia.
Page 93 - 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 harbor a thought that mine is the joy of fear.
Page 404 - PREVIOUS QUESTION. When any question is before the House, any member may move a previous question, " Whether that question (called the main question) shall now be put? " If it pass in the affirmative, then the main question is to be put immediately, and no man may speak anything further to it, either to add or alter. Manor, in Hakew., 28; 4 Grey, 27. The previous question being moved and seconded, the question from the Chair shall be, "Shall the main question be now put?
Page 303 - ... 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...
Page 427 - When, from counting the House, on a division, it appears that there is not a quorum, the matter continues exactly in the state in which it was before the division, and must be resumed at that point on any future day. — 2 Hats. 126. 1606, May i, on a question whether a member having said Yea, may afterwards sit and change his opinion?
Page 408 - In like manner, if it is proposed to amend by striking out a paragraph, the friends of the paragraph are first to make it as perfect as they can by amendments, before the question is put for striking it out.
Page 122 - They will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth ; or, if able to throw them off, it will be in exchange for an unbounded licentiousness, passing, as is usual, from one extreme to another. It would be a miracle were they to stop precisely at the point of temperate liberty.