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Page 55
... should specify it as the Juglans alba , foliolis lanceolatis , acuminatis , ferratis , tomentofis , fructu minore , ovato , compref- fo , vix infculpto , dulci , putamine tenerrimo . It grows on the Illinois , Wabash , Ohio , and ...
... should specify it as the Juglans alba , foliolis lanceolatis , acuminatis , ferratis , tomentofis , fructu minore , ovato , compref- fo , vix infculpto , dulci , putamine tenerrimo . It grows on the Illinois , Wabash , Ohio , and ...
Page 77
... should omit it as if it did not exist ? Such is the economy of nature , that no inftance can be produced , of her having permitted any one race of her animals to become extinct ; of her having formed any link in her great work so weak ...
... should omit it as if it did not exist ? Such is the economy of nature , that no inftance can be produced , of her having permitted any one race of her animals to become extinct ; of her having formed any link in her great work so weak ...
Page 81
... should de- fignate it as the Alces Americanus cornibus teretibus . ' It were to be wished , that naturalifts who are acquainted with the renne and elk of Eu- rope , and who may hereafter vifit the northern parts of America , would ...
... should de- fignate it as the Alces Americanus cornibus teretibus . ' It were to be wished , that naturalifts who are acquainted with the renne and elk of Eu- rope , and who may hereafter vifit the northern parts of America , would ...
Page 90
... should not kill him . After many days deliberation , however , the determination was , contrary to Silouce's expectation , that Byrd should be put to death , and fome war- riors were dispatched as executioners . Silouce attended them ...
... should not kill him . After many days deliberation , however , the determination was , contrary to Silouce's expectation , that Byrd should be put to death , and fome war- riors were dispatched as executioners . Silouce attended them ...
Page 127
... Should this race of increase continue , we shall have between fix and seven millions of inhabitants within 95 years . If we sup◅ pose our country to be bounded , at fome future day , by the meridian of the mouth of the Great Kanha- way ...
... Should this race of increase continue , we shall have between fix and seven millions of inhabitants within 95 years . If we sup◅ pose our country to be bounded , at fome future day , by the meridian of the mouth of the Great Kanha- way ...
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Page 96 - 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 harbour a thought that mine is the joy of fear.
Page 243 - 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 ? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath ? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just ; that his justice cannot sleep forever...
Page 328 - Almighty God hath created the mind free; that 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 328 - ... 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, who being lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in His almighty power to do...
Page 329 - ... that our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry; that therefore the proscribing any citizen as unworthy the public confidence by laying upon him an incapacity of being called to offices of trust and emolument unless he profess or renounce this or that religious opinion is depriving him injuriously of those privileges and advantages to which, in common with his fellow citizens, he has a natural right...
Page 222 - History, by apprising them of the past, will enable them to judge of the future; it will avail them of the experience of other times and other nations; it will qualify them as judges of the actions and designs of men...
Page 27 - ... that in this place particularly they have been dammed up by the Blue Ridge of mountains, and have formed an ocean which filled the whole valley ; that continuing to rise they have at length broken over at this spot, and have torn the mountain down from...
Page 243 - And with what execration should the statesman be loaded, who, permitting one half the citizens thus to trample on the rights of the other, transforms those into despots, and these into enemies, destroys the morals of the one part, and the amor patriae of the other.
Page 243 - For if a slave can have a country in this world, it must be any other in preference to that in which he is born to live and labor for another...
Page 328 - ... 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...