A History of Virginia from Its Discovery Till the Year 1781: With Biographical Sketches of All the Most Distinguished Characters that Occur in the Colonial, Revolutionary, Or Subsequent Period of Our History |
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They penetrated but a few leagues from the place of their first landing , and gained from the natives but little information respecting their country . No trace of this coast having ever been visited by any civilized people was ...
They penetrated but a few leagues from the place of their first landing , and gained from the natives but little information respecting their country . No trace of this coast having ever been visited by any civilized people was ...
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He commanded a respect rarely paid by savages to their werowance , and maintained a dignity and splendour worthy the monarch of thirty nations . He was constantly attended by a guard of forty warriors , and during the night a sentry ...
He commanded a respect rarely paid by savages to their werowance , and maintained a dignity and splendour worthy the monarch of thirty nations . He was constantly attended by a guard of forty warriors , and during the night a sentry ...
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Twenty men under the guidance of Manteo were then sent to Croatan * to gain , if possible , some information respecting the colony . They there understood that in a quarrel betwixt Wingina's people and the English , one of the latter ...
Twenty men under the guidance of Manteo were then sent to Croatan * to gain , if possible , some information respecting the colony . They there understood that in a quarrel betwixt Wingina's people and the English , one of the latter ...
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He also paid his respects to Opechancanough , and returned to Jamestown which had been consumed by fire in his absence . The hope of finding gold on the shores , or in the recesses of Virginia , was not yet ...
He also paid his respects to Opechancanough , and returned to Jamestown which had been consumed by fire in his absence . The hope of finding gold on the shores , or in the recesses of Virginia , was not yet ...
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In the exercise of his professional duties , as a surveyor , he became acquainted with the value of lands , and gained such information respecting the country which he traversed , as enabled him to make important additions to his landed ...
In the exercise of his professional duties , as a surveyor , he became acquainted with the value of lands , and gained such information respecting the country which he traversed , as enabled him to make important additions to his landed ...
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Page 150 - There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it. I have killed many. I have fully glutted my vengeance. For my country, I rejoice at the beams of peace. But do not harbor a thought that mine is the joy of fear.
Page 221 - That government is, or ought to be, instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security, of the people, nation, or community...
Page 220 - That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity, namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property...
Page 150 - I appeal to any white man to say, if ever he entered Logan's cabin hungry, and he gave him not meat: if ever he came cold and naked, and he clothed him not. During the course of the last long and bloody war, Logan remained idle in his cabin, an advocate for peace. Such was my love for the whites, that my countrymen pointed as they passed, and said, ' Logan is the friend of white men.
Page 222 - ... of the people, they should, at fixed periods, be reduced to a private station, return into that body from which they were originally taken, and the vacancies be supplied by frequent, certain, and regular elections, in which all, or any part of the former members to be again eligible or ineligible, as the laws shall direct.
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Page 225 - 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 ; and, therefore, all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience ; and that it is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love and charity towards each other.
Page 225 - 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, and therefore all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience; and that it is the mutual duty of all to practise Christian forbearance, love, and charity, towards each other.
Page 222 - That elections of members to serve as representatives of the people, in assembly, ought to be free; and that all men, having sufficient evidence of permanent common interest with, and attachment to, the community, have the right
Page 224 - That in controversies, respecting property, and in suits between man and man, the ancient trial by jury is preferable to any other, and ought to be held sacred.
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| Title | A History of Virginia from Its Discovery Till the Year 1781: With Biographical Sketches of All the Most Distinguished Characters that Occur in the Colonial, Revolutionary, Or Subsequent Period of Our History |
| Author | John Wilson Campbell |
| Publisher | J. W. Campbell, 1813 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 12 Feb 2008 |
| Length | 310 pages |
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