An Historical, Geographical, Commercial, and Philosophical View of the United States of America, and of the European Settlements in America and the West-IndiesTiebout and O'Brien, 1796 - 519 σελίδες |
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... fhips , carrying three hundred colonists , one hundred cattle and useful fupplies , He arrived in Auguft , and parties were fent out from James - town to form distant fettlements . He returned the beginning of 1614 , and the ...
... fhips , carrying three hundred colonists , one hundred cattle and useful fupplies , He arrived in Auguft , and parties were fent out from James - town to form distant fettlements . He returned the beginning of 1614 , and the ...
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... fhips that prefumed to trade contrary to the acts of navigation . " Little regard was paid to orders fo contrary to the views of every one . trade was not only practifed , but juftified under a claufe of the patent , which the people ...
... fhips that prefumed to trade contrary to the acts of navigation . " Little regard was paid to orders fo contrary to the views of every one . trade was not only practifed , but juftified under a claufe of the patent , which the people ...
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... this erder - Philadelphia , New - York . Bofton , Baltimore , Charleston , & c . In point w - York , Philadelphia , Bofton , Crichton Baltimore , & c for fhips of burden ; but small veffels only go 38 GENERAL DESCRIPTION.
... this erder - Philadelphia , New - York . Bofton , Baltimore , Charleston , & c . In point w - York , Philadelphia , Bofton , Crichton Baltimore , & c for fhips of burden ; but small veffels only go 38 GENERAL DESCRIPTION.
Σελίδα 39
William Winterbotham. for fhips of burden ; but small veffels only go up to the town . The fituation of the town is low , and was formerly unhealthy ; but the increase of houses , and , of course , of smoke , the ten- dency of which is ...
William Winterbotham. for fhips of burden ; but small veffels only go up to the town . The fituation of the town is low , and was formerly unhealthy ; but the increase of houses , and , of course , of smoke , the ten- dency of which is ...
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... fhips for about four miles above its mouth ; while the channel lies clofe along the edge of the city , and affords a large and capacious harbour . The Potomack , although only navigable for final ! craft , for a confiderable diftance ...
... fhips for about four miles above its mouth ; while the channel lies clofe along the edge of the city , and affords a large and capacious harbour . The Potomack , although only navigable for final ! craft , for a confiderable diftance ...
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Σελίδα 109 - is an imitative animal. This quality is the germ of all education in him, from his cradle to his grave he is learning to do what he fees others do. If a parent could find no motive either in his philanthropy or his
Σελίδα 109 - a country in this world, it muft be any other in preference to that in which he is born to live and labour for another; in which he muft lock up the faculties of his nature, contribute as far as depends
Σελίδα 209 - in General Affembly freely given. XVII. That the people have a right to bear arms for the defence of the State ; and as (landing armies in time of peace are dangerous to liberty, they ought not to be kept up; and that the military
Σελίδα 110 - I would not have a flave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I fleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That
Σελίδα 114 - of the whole fcheme of education would be the teaching all the children of the State reading, writing, and common arithmetic ; turning out ten annually of fuperior genius, well taught in Greek, Latin, geography, and the higher branches of arithmetic ; turning out ten others annually, of
Σελίδα 208 - laws, or the execution of laws, by any authority, without the confent of the representatives of the people, is injurious to their rights, and ought not
Σελίδα 115 - Hiftory, by apprifing them of the paft, 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
Σελίδα 209 - and as (landing armies in time of peace are dangerous to liberty, they ought not to be kept up; and that the military fhould be kept under
Σελίδα 115 - is more important, none more legitimate, than that of rendering the people the fafe, as they are the ultimate, guardians of their own liberty : for this purpofe, the reading in the
Σελίδα 212 - and continue to pofTefs in the county which he reprefents, not lefs than one hundred acres of land in fee, or for the term of his own life. VII. That all freemen of the age of twenty-one years, who have been inhabitants of any one county within the State twelve months immediately preceding the day of any election, and