The Virginia Historical Register, and Literary Companion, Volumes 1-6William Maxwell Virginia Historical Society, 1850 - Virginia |
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... whole Past , remembered and unrememberable ; " but we are also disposed with him to " distinguish well , " as he advises , " between what still reaches to the surface , and is alive and frondent ( or frondiferous ) for us ; and what no ...
... whole Past , remembered and unrememberable ; " but we are also disposed with him to " distinguish well , " as he advises , " between what still reaches to the surface , and is alive and frondent ( or frondiferous ) for us ; and what no ...
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... whole community , has sustained in the deaths , during the past year , of two of our honorary members - Benjamin Watkins Leigh , and Chapman Johnson - both alike and almost equally distinguished for virtues , talents , and public ...
... whole community , has sustained in the deaths , during the past year , of two of our honorary members - Benjamin Watkins Leigh , and Chapman Johnson - both alike and almost equally distinguished for virtues , talents , and public ...
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... whole company , pre-. James Cocke , Richard Baker , Benjamin Howard , R. Rutherford , Archibald Campbell , James Balfour , W. Cabell , jun . Daniel Barraud , James Mills , David Jameson , Charles Duncan , John Wayles , James Bell ...
... whole company , pre-. James Cocke , Richard Baker , Benjamin Howard , R. Rutherford , Archibald Campbell , James Balfour , W. Cabell , jun . Daniel Barraud , James Mills , David Jameson , Charles Duncan , John Wayles , James Bell ...
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William Maxwell. After signing the association , the whole company , pre- ceded by the Moderator , and the Chairman of the Trade , walked in procession from the Capitol to the Raleigh tavern , where the following loyal and patriotick ...
William Maxwell. After signing the association , the whole company , pre- ceded by the Moderator , and the Chairman of the Trade , walked in procession from the Capitol to the Raleigh tavern , where the following loyal and patriotick ...
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... had violated his stipula- ted engagement to form a junction with Lewis , and cross- ed over to the Indian towns . They all believed , that he was privy to the whole affair of the battle of the 40 THE VIRGINIA HISTORICAL REGISTER .
... had violated his stipula- ted engagement to form a junction with Lewis , and cross- ed over to the Indian towns . They all believed , that he was privy to the whole affair of the battle of the 40 THE VIRGINIA HISTORICAL REGISTER .
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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...