Sketches of Virginia: Historical and Biographical, Volume 1William S. Martien, 1850 |
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... authorities for verification less necessary , and the liability to misconstruction greatly lessened . Due acknowledgment is made , or intended to be made , of the assistance rendered by friends of truth , in the chapters in which their ...
... authorities for verification less necessary , and the liability to misconstruction greatly lessened . Due acknowledgment is made , or intended to be made , of the assistance rendered by friends of truth , in the chapters in which their ...
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... authority of the Company in London ; but its powers were not fully defined . Previously to the year 1645 , the number of Bur- gesses to be sent by each neighbourhood , or plantation , as the settlements were called , or by shires after ...
... authority of the Company in London ; but its powers were not fully defined . Previously to the year 1645 , the number of Bur- gesses to be sent by each neighbourhood , or plantation , as the settlements were called , or by shires after ...
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... authority aforesaid , that all Indians taken in warr shall be held and accounted slaves during life . " This act was repealed by the general act setting aside all the acts of Assembly that sat in 1676 under the auspices of Bacon . But ...
... authority aforesaid , that all Indians taken in warr shall be held and accounted slaves during life . " This act was repealed by the general act setting aside all the acts of Assembly that sat in 1676 under the auspices of Bacon . But ...
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... authority , for what is related while he staid in the country . The latter part of his history especially from Captain Argall's government is liable to some just suspicions . Not that I ques- tion Captain Smith's integrity ; for I take ...
... authority , for what is related while he staid in the country . The latter part of his history especially from Captain Argall's government is liable to some just suspicions . Not that I ques- tion Captain Smith's integrity ; for I take ...
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... authority is for placing the intro- duction of Negroes in 1619 . Until the introduction of Negroes the labours of the planta- tion were thrown as much as possible on hired servants , as in England ; or on bought servants , persons , who ...
... authority is for placing the intro- duction of Negroes in 1619 . Until the introduction of Negroes the labours of the planta- tion were thrown as much as possible on hired servants , as in England ; or on bought servants , persons , who ...
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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?