Notes on the State of Virginia: With an Appendix Relative to the Murder of Logan's FamilyWilson & Blackwell, 1803 - Всего страниц: 363 |
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... This man is my friend : before you get at him , you must kill me . " On which they returned , and the coun- cil respected the principle so much as to recede from their determina tion . ease is least athletic . in the hand and wrist [ 83 ]
... This man is my friend : before you get at him , you must kill me . " On which they returned , and the coun- cil respected the principle so much as to recede from their determina tion . ease is least athletic . in the hand and wrist [ 83 ]
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... principles of their society forbidding all com- pulsion , they are to be led to duty and to enter- prize by personal influence and persuasion . Hence eloquence in council , bravery and address in war , become the foundations of all ...
... principles of their society forbidding all com- pulsion , they are to be led to duty and to enter- prize by personal influence and persuasion . Hence eloquence in council , bravery and address in war , become the foundations of all ...
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... principles . Ours , perhaps are more peculiar than those of any other in the universe . It is a composition of the freest principles of the English constitution , with others derived from natural right and natural reason . these nothing ...
... principles . Ours , perhaps are more peculiar than those of any other in the universe . It is a composition of the freest principles of the English constitution , with others derived from natural right and natural reason . these nothing ...
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... principles , with their language , they will transmit to their chil- dren . In proportion to their numbers , they will share with us the legislation . They will infuse into it their spirit , warp and bias its di- rections , and render ...
... principles , with their language , they will transmit to their chil- dren . In proportion to their numbers , they will share with us the legislation . They will infuse into it their spirit , warp and bias its di- rections , and render ...
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... principles . Thns in Great - Britain it is said their constitution re- lies on the house of commons for honesty , and the lords for wisdom ; which would be a rational reliance if honesty were to be bought with money , and if wisdom were ...
... principles . Thns in Great - Britain it is said their constitution re- lies on the house of commons for honesty , and the lords for wisdom ; which would be a rational reliance if honesty were to be bought with money , and if wisdom were ...
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Стр. 219 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other.
Стр. 307 - Almighty power to do; that the impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world, and through all time ; that to compel a man to furnish contributions...
Стр. 219 - The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to the worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities.
Стр. 223 - The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government, as sores do to the strength of the human body.
Стр. 309 - ... or support any religious worship, place or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested, or burthened in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer on account of his religious opinions or belief; but that all men shall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain, their opinions in matters of religion, and that the same shall in no wise diminish, enlarge, or affect their civil capacities.
Стр. 214 - The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
Стр. 220 - And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God?
Стр. 30 - If the view from the top be painful and intolerable, that from below is delightful in an equal extreme. It is impossible for the emotions arising from the sublime to be felt beyond what they are here ; so beautiful an arch, so elevated, so light, and springing as it were up to heaven ! the rapture of the spectator is really indescribable...
Стр. 159 - For this reason that convention which passed the ordinance of government, laid its foundation on this basis, that the legislative, executive, and judiciary departments should be separate and distinct, so that no person should exercise the powers of more than one of them at the same time.
Стр. 145 - The Treasurer and company of Adventurers and Planters of the City of London for the first colony in Virginia...