Sketches of Virginia: Historical and Biographical, Količina 1William S. Martien, 1850 |
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Stran 1
... never be forgotten . There have been principles avowed , whose influence will be felt through all time . There have been historians of Virginia - there have been volumes of Biogra- phy worthy of the writers , and of the men whose lives ...
... never be forgotten . There have been principles avowed , whose influence will be felt through all time . There have been historians of Virginia - there have been volumes of Biogra- phy worthy of the writers , and of the men whose lives ...
Stran 7
... never had any , but tobacco , which yet is considerable that it yields his Majesty a great revenue . The planters , being absorbed in the cultivation of tobacco , repeatedly suffered the evils of famine through their neglect to ...
... never had any , but tobacco , which yet is considerable that it yields his Majesty a great revenue . The planters , being absorbed in the cultivation of tobacco , repeatedly suffered the evils of famine through their neglect to ...
Stran 14
... never welcomed the English to a permanent settlement . They met , with warlike demonstrations , the little band that stepped on shore at Cape Henry the 26th of April , 1607 , and wounded them with arrows . For about seventy years , they ...
... never welcomed the English to a permanent settlement . They met , with warlike demonstrations , the little band that stepped on shore at Cape Henry the 26th of April , 1607 , and wounded them with arrows . For about seventy years , they ...
Stran 23
... never to have been anticipated . The gain from the African labour outweighed all fears of evil from the intermixture . There appears to have been no question about the morality and right of purchasing them for life , any more than of ...
... never to have been anticipated . The gain from the African labour outweighed all fears of evil from the intermixture . There appears to have been no question about the morality and right of purchasing them for life , any more than of ...
Stran 39
... never obtained " a better supply . " From the second , the college , which was soon after reared by Commissary Blair , the State has been drinking , as from a fountain of pearls ; she has gathered gems that sparkle in her crown as an ...
... never obtained " a better supply . " From the second , the college , which was soon after reared by Commissary Blair , the State has been drinking , as from a fountain of pearls ; she has gathered gems that sparkle in her crown as an ...
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Sketches of Virginia: Historical and Biographical, Količina 1 William Henry Foote Celotni ogled - 1850 |
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Academy Act of Toleration agreeable appeared appointed Assembly attend Bishop of London Blair blessed called Christ Christian Church of England clergy College colony congregation conversation Court Davies dissenters divine doctrines established church father favour Francis Makemie friends gave gentleman gospel Governor Graham Hampden Sidney Hanover Hanover county hear heard heart Hoge honour hope Indians James James River John labours Lacy land Legislature Legrand letter Liberty Hall license live Log College Lord Lord Cornbury lordship Makemie meeting meeting-house ment Messrs miles minister ministry Northern Neck parish pastor persons petition Philadelphia pious prayer preacher preaching Presbyterian Church Presbytery present President Prince Edward received religion religious revival Sabbath Samuel Samuel Davies Samuel Stanhope Smith says sent sermon Smith solemn spirit sundry Synod Synod of Virginia Tennent things thought tion tobacco Trustees Virginia Waddell William worship young
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Stran 216 - Thou believest that there is one God ; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.
Stran 346 - ... all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments, or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion...
Stran 50 - Protestant Subjects dissenting from the Church of England from the Penalties of certain Laws...
Stran 11 - I thank God there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have them these hundred years; for learning has brought disobedience and heresy and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both!
Stran 347 - THAT NO MAN SHALL BE COMPELLED to frequent or support any religious worship, place or ministry whatsoever...
Stran 346 - That to compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical...
Stran 284 - As a remarkable instance of this, I may point out to the public that heroic youth, Colonel Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has hitherto preserved in so signal a manner for some important service to his country.
Stran 381 - Devotion alone should have stopped me, to join in the duties of the congregation; but I must confess that curiosity to hear the preacher of such a wilderness was not the least of my motives.
Stran 322 - Because we hold it for a fundamental and undeniable truth, "that Religion or the duty which we owe to our Creator and the Manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence.
Stran 110 - Then said he unto the dresser of his vineyard, Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none: cut it down; why cumbereth it the ground?