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Yet twentie or twentie five shot we got ashore : the King importuning mee to leave my armes a board , much misliking my sword pistol and target . I told him the men that slew my Brother with the . like tearmes had perswaded me ...
Yet twentie or twentie five shot we got ashore : the King importuning mee to leave my armes a board , much misliking my sword pistol and target . I told him the men that slew my Brother with the . like tearmes had perswaded me ...
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Slaves , by these and other acts , are prohibited from going abroad without leave in writing from their masters , and if they do may be whipped : any person suffering a slave to remain on his plantation for four hours together ...
Slaves , by these and other acts , are prohibited from going abroad without leave in writing from their masters , and if they do may be whipped : any person suffering a slave to remain on his plantation for four hours together ...
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“ Give me leave to suggest , ” said he , “ that it may be well to leave the cannon where they are . The cavalry , too , cannot act with effect among those hills , and the two together , should the fortune of the day be unpropitious ...
“ Give me leave to suggest , ” said he , “ that it may be well to leave the cannon where they are . The cavalry , too , cannot act with effect among those hills , and the two together , should the fortune of the day be unpropitious ...
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Contents
INTRODUCTION | 13 |
GEORGE MASON 17251792 | 17 |
JOHN RANDOLPH 17731833 | 19 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Virginia Reader: a Treasury of Writings from the First Voyages to the Present |
| Editor | Francis Coleman Rosenberger |
| Contributor | Francis Coleman Rosenberger |
| Publisher | E.P. Dutton, 1948 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 24 Oct 2007 |
| Length | 576 pages |
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