Virginia Reader: a Treasury of Writings from the First Voyages to the PresentFrancis Coleman Rosenberger Excerpt from Virginia Reader: A Treasury of Writings, From the First Voyages to the Present Richard henry lee (1782-1794) address TO the virginia house OF burgesses On the motion to lay so heavy a duty on the importation of slaves as effectually to put an end to that iniquitous and dis graceful traffic within the colony of Virginia. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 63
... twenty day of Aprill , 1 Captain Newport and my selfe with divers others , to the number of twenty two persons , set forward to discover the River , some fiftie or sixtie miles , finding it in some places broader , and in some narrower ...
... twenty - two , he began the study of law under Jefferson , whose example and principles influenced him all his life . He was elected to the Virginia House of Delegates when he was twenty- four , and until his retirement from the ...
... twenty - seven . Following the publication of his volume of Poems in 1831 , Poe devoted himself energetically to the writing of prose . The next year , when he was twenty - four , five of his stories appeared in the Philadelphia ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 13 |
GEORGE MASON 17251792 | 17 |
JOHN RANDOLPH 17731833 | 19 |
Copyright | |
43 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Virginia Reader: A Treasury of Writings, From the First Voyages to the ... Francis Coleman Rosenberger No preview available - 2018 |