The Virginia Historical Register, and Literary Note Book, Volumes 3-4William Maxwell proprietor, 1850 - Virginia |
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... councils of our country , and still more fairly perhaps as a private citizen but still a public man , through a long life to a " good old age , " and even down to the day of his death , have crowned his memo- with pure and permanent ...
... councils of our country , and still more fairly perhaps as a private citizen but still a public man , through a long life to a " good old age , " and even down to the day of his death , have crowned his memo- with pure and permanent ...
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... councils , assemblies , and courts of judicature are within your government , and of what nature and kind ? Answer . There is a governor and sixteen counsellors , who have from his sacred majestie , a commission of Oyer and Terminer ...
... councils , assemblies , and courts of judicature are within your government , and of what nature and kind ? Answer . There is a governor and sixteen counsellors , who have from his sacred majestie , a commission of Oyer and Terminer ...
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... council from printing any thing , till the king's pleasure should be known , which , it may be presumed was very tardily communicated , as the first evi- dence of printing thereafter in Virginia was on the revised laws contained in the ...
... council from printing any thing , till the king's pleasure should be known , which , it may be presumed was very tardily communicated , as the first evi- dence of printing thereafter in Virginia was on the revised laws contained in the ...
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... council , and courage and en- ergy in action , than for excellence in speech or writing . When a young man , I believe he served in some of the frontier or Indian wars . He was frequently a Burgess in the old Colonial Assembly , and was ...
... council , and courage and en- ergy in action , than for excellence in speech or writing . When a young man , I believe he served in some of the frontier or Indian wars . He was frequently a Burgess in the old Colonial Assembly , and was ...
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... Council . SR . - The great honor of your command obliging my pen to step aside from its habituall element of figures into this little treatise of history ; which having never before experienced , I am like Sutor ultra crepidam , and ...
... Council . SR . - The great honor of your command obliging my pen to step aside from its habituall element of figures into this little treatise of history ; which having never before experienced , I am like Sutor ultra crepidam , and ...
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Accompt afterwards Alexander Spotswood American answer appears appointed Assembly Bacon Barron British Byrd called Capt Champe Charles church College Colonel Colony command Commodore Congress copy Council Court Creek Dear enemy England father friends Gen'll gentlemen George Governor Governor of Virginia hand Henry Honour hope horse House of Burgesses Hugh Drysdale hundred Indians interest James Barron James River James town Josiah Parker King land late letter Lewis lived Lord Majesty Mason meeting miles militia never Norfolk occasion officers patriotic persons piculs plantation Pocahontas present President received Richmond Robert Robert Bolling Samuel Samuel Barron sent ship Society soon Speaker speech Staunton Temperance thing Thomas tion tobacco town troops VIRGINIA HISTORICAL Virginia Historical Society Washington William William Byrd Williamsburg York
Popular passages
Page 60 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for not without dust and heat.
Page 228 - This shall be written for the generation to come; and the people which shall be created shall praise the Lord.
Page 140 - I behold like a Spanish great galleon and an English man-of-war. Master Coleridge, like the former, was built far higher in learning, solid, but slow in his performances. CVL, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about, and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention.
Page 13 - I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have 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 l William Waller Hening, Statutes at Large (New York, 1823), II, 511-517.
Page 140 - Then to the well-trod stage anon If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild.
Page 37 - The historic muse, Proud of the treasure, marches with it down To latest times ; and Sculpture, in her turn, Gives bond in stone and ever-during brass To guard them, and to immortalize her trust.
Page 83 - Pass by his troubled senses; sing his pain Like hollow murmuring wind, or silver rain: Into this prince, gently, oh gently slide, And kiss him into slumbers, like a bride.
Page 12 - The same course that is taken in England out of towns; every man according to his ability instructing his children.
Page 108 - The more carefully we examine the history of the past, the more reason shall we find to dissent from those who imagine that our age has been fruitful of new social evils. The truth is, that the evils are, with scarcely an exception, old.
Page 75 - Being born to one of the amplest fortunes in this country, he was sent early to England for his education, where, under the care and direction of Sir Robert Southwell, and ever favored with his particular instructions, he made a happy proficiency in polite and various learning. By the means of the same noble friend he was introduced to the acquaintance of many of the first persons of...