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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... King William 436 King and Queen . 500 Essex 468 Middlesex * 210 Gloucester 850 Fairfax .. 652 Prince William 614 Stafford * 500 King George 483 Richmond 412 Westmoreland 544 Northumberland . 630 Lancaster 332 Accomac Northampton Whole ...
... King William 436 King and Queen . 500 Essex 468 Middlesex * 210 Gloucester 850 Fairfax .. 652 Prince William 614 Stafford * 500 King George 483 Richmond 412 Westmoreland 544 Northumberland . 630 Lancaster 332 Accomac Northampton Whole ...
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... King George . King George . King George . Richmond . Pawtomac cr . [ ton's . 200 About Lamb creek . 20 60 09 Above Leeds Town . Westmoreland . Nomony river . 100 Richmond co . Rappahanoc creek . 100 30 Lancaster . Moaughtacunds ...
... King George . King George . King George . Richmond . Pawtomac cr . [ ton's . 200 About Lamb creek . 20 60 09 Above Leeds Town . Westmoreland . Nomony river . 100 Richmond co . Rappahanoc creek . 100 30 Lancaster . Moaughtacunds ...
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... king of the Weopo- meiocs , in a full council of his people is said to have acknowledged himself the homager of the Queen of England , and , after her , of Sir Walter Raleigh . A supply of fifty men were sent in 1586 , and one hun- dred ...
... king of the Weopo- meiocs , in a full council of his people is said to have acknowledged himself the homager of the Queen of England , and , after her , of Sir Walter Raleigh . A supply of fifty men were sent in 1586 , and one hun- dred ...
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... king James for a new grant of Virginia to them . He accordingly executed a grant to Sir Thomas Gates and others , bearing date the 9th of March , 1607 , under which , in the same year , a set- tlement was effected at Jamestown , and ...
... king James for a new grant of Virginia to them . He accordingly executed a grant to Sir Thomas Gates and others , bearing date the 9th of March , 1607 , under which , in the same year , a set- tlement was effected at Jamestown , and ...
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... king , of May 23 , 1609 , to the Earl of Salisbury and others , incorporating them by the name of " The Treasurer and company of Adventurers and Planters of the City of London for the first colony in Virginia , " granting to them and ...
... king , of May 23 , 1609 , to the Earl of Salisbury and others , incorporating them by the name of " The Treasurer and company of Adventurers and Planters of the City of London for the first colony in Virginia , " granting to them and ...
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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.