Sketches of Virginia: Historical and Biographical, Volume 1William S. Martien, 1850 - Virginia |
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... passed over , hold a prominent place , there can be no complaint . Truth is stronger and more strange than fiction . Every writer gives what he supposes , or wishes others to suppose , the most important in the past . Political writers ...
... passed over , hold a prominent place , there can be no complaint . Truth is stronger and more strange than fiction . Every writer gives what he supposes , or wishes others to suppose , the most important in the past . Political writers ...
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... passed away , and the more sober , and ultimately more enriching , pursuits of agriculture occupied the public mind . The colony had become permanent in its inhabi- tants , and in its occupations . Few emigrants came , as at first ...
... passed away , and the more sober , and ultimately more enriching , pursuits of agriculture occupied the public mind . The colony had become permanent in its inhabi- tants , and in its occupations . Few emigrants came , as at first ...
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... passed by the House of Burgesses to en- force the production of corn , and limit the amount of tobacco . In 1624 , at the first Assembly , whose records have been pre- served , it was resolved , by act 16th- " That three sufficient men ...
... passed by the House of Burgesses to en- force the production of corn , and limit the amount of tobacco . In 1624 , at the first Assembly , whose records have been pre- served , it was resolved , by act 16th- " That three sufficient men ...
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... passed in 1623 , 4 , show the terror of the colonists and their hostile feelings towards the authors of their sufferings . Act 23d says , " that every dwelling house shall be pallizaded in for defence against the Indians . " Act 24th ...
... passed in 1623 , 4 , show the terror of the colonists and their hostile feelings towards the authors of their sufferings . Act 23d says , " that every dwelling house shall be pallizaded in for defence against the Indians . " Act 24th ...
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... passed forbidding any person , to whom an Indian child had been committed , assign- ing or any way transferring that child ; and that the child should be free at twenty - five years of age : -also to prevent the stealing of Indian ...
... passed forbidding any person , to whom an Indian child had been committed , assign- ing or any way transferring that child ; and that the child should be free at twenty - five years of age : -also to prevent the stealing of Indian ...
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Page 216 - Thou believest that there is one God ; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.
Page 347 - ... that it is time enough for the rightful purposes of civil government, for its officers to interfere when principles break out into overt acts against peace and good order...
Page 346 - ... all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments, or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion...
Page 50 - Protestant Subjects dissenting from the Church of England from the Penalties of certain Laws...
Page 11 - I thank God there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have them 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!
Page 347 - THAT NO MAN SHALL BE COMPELLED to frequent or support any religious worship, place or ministry whatsoever...
Page 346 - That to compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical...
Page 381 - Devotion alone should have stopped me, to join in the duties of the congregation; but I must confess that curiosity to hear the preacher of such a wilderness was not the least of my motives.
Page 322 - Because we hold it for a fundamental and undeniable truth, "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.
Page 110 - Then said he unto the dresser of his vineyard, Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none: cut it down; why cumbereth it the ground?