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Page 171
... delegates , compofed of two mem bers from each county , chofen annually by the citi zens poffeffing an eftate for life in 100 acres of unin- habited land , or 25 acres with a houfe on it , or in a houfe or lot in fome town : the other ...
... delegates , compofed of two mem bers from each county , chofen annually by the citi zens poffeffing an eftate for life in 100 acres of unin- habited land , or 25 acres with a houfe on it , or in a houfe or lot in fome town : the other ...
Page 172
... members only of pof- feffing Of these 542 are on the Eastern shore . Of these , 22,616 are eastward of the meridian of the north of the Great Kanhaway , feffing a majority of the house of delegates ; a 172 NOTES ON VIRGINIA .
... members only of pof- feffing Of these 542 are on the Eastern shore . Of these , 22,616 are eastward of the meridian of the north of the Great Kanhaway , feffing a majority of the house of delegates ; a 172 NOTES ON VIRGINIA .
Page 173
... delegates . Being chofen by the fame electors at the fame time , and out of the fame fubjects , the choice falls of courfe on men of the fame description . The purpose of establishing different houfes of legiflation is to introduce the ...
... delegates . Being chofen by the fame electors at the fame time , and out of the fame fubjects , the choice falls of courfe on men of the fame description . The purpose of establishing different houfes of legiflation is to introduce the ...
Page 176
... delegates from each county , meeting together and forming one house , on the plan of the former houfe of burgeffes , to whofe places they fucceeded . These were at firft chofen anew for eve- ry particular feffion . But in March 1775 ...
... delegates from each county , meeting together and forming one house , on the plan of the former houfe of burgeffes , to whofe places they fucceeded . These were at firft chofen anew for eve- ry particular feffion . But in March 1775 ...
Page 177
... delegates powers of eftablishing them , or any authorities other than those of the ordinary legiffature . So far as a temporary or ganization of government was neceffary to render our oppofition energetic , fo far their organization was ...
... delegates powers of eftablishing them , or any authorities other than those of the ordinary legiffature . So far as a temporary or ganization of government was neceffary to render our oppofition energetic , fo far their organization was ...
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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...