Life in Old Virginia: A Description of Virginia More Particularly the Tidewater Section, Narrating Many Incidents Relating to the Manners and Customs of Old Virginia So Fast Disappearing as a Result of the War Between the States, Together with Many Humorous Stories... |
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... early years of the first per- manent settlement of the English speaking people on this Continent . Here it was for the first time that the stroke of the axe of the English laid prostrate the standing giants of the forests of the new ...
... early years of the first per- manent settlement of the English speaking people on this Continent . Here it was for the first time that the stroke of the axe of the English laid prostrate the standing giants of the forests of the new ...
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... early period , except Hening , were content with their own knowledge that Northumberland was but a " Plantation " in 1644-45 . The earliest court records now in the clerk's office of that county are dated 1652. Some of the court records ...
... early period , except Hening , were content with their own knowledge that Northumberland was but a " Plantation " in 1644-45 . The earliest court records now in the clerk's office of that county are dated 1652. Some of the court records ...
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... early years , by taking everything off the land and returning nothing to it . These poor lands when " turned out " grow good pine , and oak timber on the higher parts , and poplar and other woods in and around the gulleys . The lands on ...
... early years , by taking everything off the land and returning nothing to it . These poor lands when " turned out " grow good pine , and oak timber on the higher parts , and poplar and other woods in and around the gulleys . The lands on ...
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... early periods . In 1578 Sir Humphrey Gilbert obtained letters patent to settle a colony in Newfoundland . He made another effort in 1583 and took possession of the harbor of St. Johns - New- foundland.1 The next attempt was through Sir ...
... early periods . In 1578 Sir Humphrey Gilbert obtained letters patent to settle a colony in Newfoundland . He made another effort in 1583 and took possession of the harbor of St. Johns - New- foundland.1 The next attempt was through Sir ...
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... early inhabitants . There is stand- ing the ruins of the brick church ; a lonely monument to the drudgery , the toil , and the labors of the ninety - one years spent by the colonists in their endeavors to build up and maintain a capital ...
... early inhabitants . There is stand- ing the ruins of the brick church ; a lonely monument to the drudgery , the toil , and the labors of the ninety - one years spent by the colonists in their endeavors to build up and maintain a capital ...
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Page 258 - THE groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the roof above them — ere he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems ; in the darkling wood, Amid the cool and silence, he knelt down, And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication.
Page 117 - From wandering on a foreign strand ? If such there breathe, go, mark him well; For him no minstrel raptures swell ; High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim, — Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonored, and unsung.
Page 57 - ... after their best barbarous manner they could, a long consultation was held, but the conclusion was, two great stones were brought before Powhatan: then as many as could...
Page 314 - Far away in the cot on the mountain. His musket falls slack ; his face, dark and grim, Grows gentle with memories tender, As he mutters a prayer for the children asleep; For their mother — may Heaven defend her!
Page 315 - The red life-blood is ebbing and plashing. All quiet along the Potomac to-night; No sound save the rush of the river; While soft falls the dew on the face of the dead — The picket's off duty forever ! Ethel Lynn Beers.
Page 35 - Declarations hereafter expressed, all those Lands, Countries, and Territories, situate, lying, and being in that Part of America, called Virginia, from the Point of Land, called Cape or Point Comfort, all along the Sea Coast to the Northward, two hundred miles, and from the said Point of Cape Comfort, all along the Sea Coast to the Southward, two hundred Miles, and all that Space and Circuit of Land, lying from the Sea Coast of the Precinct aforesaid, up into the Land throughout from Sea to Sea,...
Page 117 - Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land ? Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned, From wandering on a foreign strand...
Page 119 - The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders, are no more. I am not a Virginian, but an American.
Page 57 - ... of men, and behind them as many women, with all their heads and shoulders painted red; many of their heads bedecked with the white downe of Birds; but every one with something: and a great chayne of white beads about their necks.
Page 303 - Our portion is not large, indeed ; But then how little do we need ! For nature's calls are few : In this the art of living lies, To want no more than may suffice, And make that little do.