The Virginia Historical Register, and Literary Companion, Volumes 1-6William Maxwell Virginia Historical Society, 1850 - Virginia |
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... river and one in the three other rivers of York , Rap- pahannock and Potomeck ; but God knows we have neither skill or ability to make or maintain them ; for there is not , nor , as far as my enquiry can reach , ever was one ingenier in ...
... river and one in the three other rivers of York , Rap- pahannock and Potomeck ; but God knows we have neither skill or ability to make or maintain them ; for there is not , nor , as far as my enquiry can reach , ever was one ingenier in ...
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... rivers , harbours or roads are there in or about your plantation and government , and of what depth and soundings are they ? Answer , Rivers , we have four , as I named before , all able , safely and severally to bear an harbour a ...
... rivers , harbours or roads are there in or about your plantation and government , and of what depth and soundings are they ? Answer , Rivers , we have four , as I named before , all able , safely and severally to bear an harbour a ...
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... river , The fleets that sweep before the eastern blast , Shall hear the sea - boy hail it from the mast . In the mean time , may we not , and should we not , have at least a bust of Pocahontas , or of Smith ; or , as some one near me ...
... river , The fleets that sweep before the eastern blast , Shall hear the sea - boy hail it from the mast . In the mean time , may we not , and should we not , have at least a bust of Pocahontas , or of Smith ; or , as some one near me ...
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... river , in the county of Botetourt , about five miles below Buchanan . By Major Walter Gwinn . A small chalk cast , and two impressions in wax , of an engra- ved stone with curious characters in some unknown language upon it ; found ...
... river , in the county of Botetourt , about five miles below Buchanan . By Major Walter Gwinn . A small chalk cast , and two impressions in wax , of an engra- ved stone with curious characters in some unknown language upon it ; found ...
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... River & Kana . Company Taxes on law process , seals , bills , deeds , fee bills of Clerks , & c . $ 600,094,33 13,078,32 164,231,00 188,469,08 26,508 With a large number of other resources too tedious to name , and which make up within ...
... River & Kana . Company Taxes on law process , seals , bills , deeds , fee bills of Clerks , & c . $ 600,094,33 13,078,32 164,231,00 188,469,08 26,508 With a large number of other resources too tedious to name , and which make up within ...
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Page 140 - 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 58 - 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 228 - This shall be written for the generation to come; and the people which shall be created shall praise the Lord.
Page 83 - 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 57 - 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 13 - 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 31 - 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 37 - 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 57 - 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 20 - ... which are, or shall hereafter be, taxed by act of parliament, for the purpose of raising a revenue in America...