The Virginia Historical Register, and Literary Companion, Volumes 1-6William Maxwell Virginia Historical Society, 1850 - Virginia |
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... march of mind , " in order to reinforce and aid the Present in its still onward progress of improvement , and to conspire with it to form and fashion the Future into all those finer shapes and fancies of grace and beauty which , under ...
... march of mind , " in order to reinforce and aid the Present in its still onward progress of improvement , and to conspire with it to form and fashion the Future into all those finer shapes and fancies of grace and beauty which , under ...
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... March 10th . The following rate for ordinaries was adopted , viz : A hot diet well dressed , 9d ; a cold , ditto , 6d ; lodging , with clean sheets , 3d , ( how much with un- clean is not stated ; ) stabling and fodder a night , 6d ...
... March 10th . The following rate for ordinaries was adopted , viz : A hot diet well dressed , 9d ; a cold , ditto , 6d ; lodging , with clean sheets , 3d , ( how much with un- clean is not stated ; ) stabling and fodder a night , 6d ...
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... march'd out seventy five Indi- ans with their women children & c . who ( by moon light past our guards hollowing and firing att them without op- position having 3. or 4 decrepits in the ffort . The next morning th ' English followed ...
... march'd out seventy five Indi- ans with their women children & c . who ( by moon light past our guards hollowing and firing att them without op- position having 3. or 4 decrepits in the ffort . The next morning th ' English followed ...
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... march , but interim to send again for a comission , which if could or could not be obteyned by a certaine day , they woud pro- ceed comission or no comission . This day lapsing and no com'n come , they march'd into the wilderness in ...
... march , but interim to send again for a comission , which if could or could not be obteyned by a certaine day , they woud pro- ceed comission or no comission . This day lapsing and no com'n come , they march'd into the wilderness in ...
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... March 1675-6 writts came up to Stafford to choose their two members for an assembly to meet in May ; when Coll . Mason Capt . Brent and other gentlemen of that county , invited me to stand a candidate ; a matter I little dreampt of ...
... March 1675-6 writts came up to Stafford to choose their two members for an assembly to meet in May ; when Coll . Mason Capt . Brent and other gentlemen of that county , invited me to stand a candidate ; a matter I little dreampt of ...
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Page 142 - I behold like a Spanish great galleon, and an English man-of-war ; Master Jonson (like the former) was built far higher in learning ; solid, but slow in his performances. Shakespeare with the English man-ofwar, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention.
Page 60 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for not without dust and heat.
Page 230 - This shall be written for the generation to come; and the people which shall be created shall praise the Lord.
Page 85 - Or painful to his slumbers: easy, sweet, And as a purling stream, thou son of Night, Pass by his troubled senses; sing his pain Like hollow murmuring wind, or silver rain: Into this prince, gently, oh gently slide, And kiss him into slumbers, like a bride.
Page 59 - tis not to adorn and gild each part, That shows more cost than art. Jewels at nose and lips but ill appear ; Rather than all things wit, let none be there. Several lights will not be seen, If there be nothing else between. Men doubt, because they stand so thick i' th' sky, If those be stars which paint the galaxy.
Page 15 - I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have 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 l William Waller Hening, Statutes at Large (New York, 1823), II, 511-517.
Page 33 - Resolved unanimously, That a committee be appointed to prepare a declaration of rights, and such a plan of government as will be most likely to maintain peace and order in this colony, and secure substantial and equal liberty to the people.
Page 39 - The historic muse, Proud of the treasure, marches with it down To latest times ; and Sculpture, in her turn, Gives bond in stone and ever-during brass To guard them, and to immortalize her trust.
Page 59 - Of Law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God ; her voice the harmony of the world. All things in heaven and earth do her homage ; the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power.
Page 22 - ... which are, or shall hereafter be, taxed by act of parliament, for the purpose of raising a revenue in America...