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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... hundred copies printed , under the title of ' Notes on Virginia . ' I gave a very few copies to some particular persons in Europe , and sent the rest to my friends in America . An European copy , by the death of the owner , got into the ...
... hundred copies printed , under the title of ' Notes on Virginia . ' I gave a very few copies to some particular persons in Europe , and sent the rest to my friends in America . An European copy , by the death of the owner , got into the ...
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... hundred and fifty - eight miles distant , equal to 30 ° 38 ' of longitude , reckoning fifty - five miles and three thousand one hundred and forty - four feet to the degree . This being our comprehension of longi- tude , that of our ...
... hundred and fifty - eight miles distant , equal to 30 ° 38 ' of longitude , reckoning fifty - five miles and three thousand one hundred and forty - four feet to the degree . This being our comprehension of longi- tude , that of our ...
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... of Elizabeth River , the lowest of those which run into James River , is a harbor , and would contain upwards of three hundred ships . The channel is Notes on Virginia 3 A notice of its rivers, rivulets, and how far they are navigable.
... of Elizabeth River , the lowest of those which run into James River , is a harbor , and would contain upwards of three hundred ships . The channel is Notes on Virginia 3 A notice of its rivers, rivulets, and how far they are navigable.
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... hundred and fifty tons ; to Suffolk for those of one hundred tons ; and to Milner's for those of twenty - five . Pagan Creek affords eight or ten feet water to Smithfield , which admits vessels of twenty tons . Chickahominy has at its ...
... hundred and fifty tons ; to Suffolk for those of one hundred tons ; and to Milner's for those of twenty - five . Pagan Creek affords eight or ten feet water to Smithfield , which admits vessels of twenty tons . Chickahominy has at its ...
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... hundred and fifty tons may go to Warwick ; those of one hundred and twenty - five go to Rocket's , a mile below Richmond ; from thence is about seven feet water to Richmond ; and about the centre of the town , four feet and a half ...
... hundred and fifty tons may go to Warwick ; those of one hundred and twenty - five go to Rocket's , a mile below Richmond ; from thence is about seven feet water to Richmond ; and about the centre of the town , four feet and a half ...
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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.