The Virginia Historical Register, and Literary Companion, Volumes 5-6William Maxwell proprietor, 1852 - Virginia |
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... wounded Virginia deepest was the cutting off Maryland from it , by charter from king Charles I. to sir George Calvert , afterwards lord Baltimore , bearing date the 20th of June , 1632. The truth of it is , it begat much spec- ulation ...
... wounded Virginia deepest was the cutting off Maryland from it , by charter from king Charles I. to sir George Calvert , afterwards lord Baltimore , bearing date the 20th of June , 1632. The truth of it is , it begat much spec- ulation ...
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... wounded , or captured on Holston , New , and Greenbrier rivers , while but a single individual was disturbed on the Roanoke , and he taken prisoner . This fact is derived from a manuscript account kept at the time by Capt . William ...
... wounded , or captured on Holston , New , and Greenbrier rivers , while but a single individual was disturbed on the Roanoke , and he taken prisoner . This fact is derived from a manuscript account kept at the time by Capt . William ...
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... wounded , according to the best information we could obtain . Among the latter is her first lieutenant , who has lost an arm , and received a severe splinter wound in the hip . Not a man in the Peacock was killed , and only two wounded ...
... wounded , according to the best information we could obtain . Among the latter is her first lieutenant , who has lost an arm , and received a severe splinter wound in the hip . Not a man in the Peacock was killed , and only two wounded ...
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... wounded , and forty - five shot holes in his hull , twenty of which were within a foot of his water- line , above and below . By great exertions we got her in sailing order just as night came on . In fifteen minutes after the enemy ...
... wounded , and forty - five shot holes in his hull , twenty of which were within a foot of his water- line , above and below . By great exertions we got her in sailing order just as night came on . In fifteen minutes after the enemy ...
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... wounded . At length , after losing three horses , the general himself received a mortal wound ; upon which his ... wounds . Their panic was com- municated to the residue of the army . As if affairs had be- come dsperate , all the stores ...
... wounded . At length , after losing three horses , the general himself received a mortal wound ; upon which his ... wounds . Their panic was com- municated to the residue of the army . As if affairs had be- come dsperate , all the stores ...
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Page 223 - I tell you, captain, — if you look in the maps of the 'orld, I warrant you shall find, in the comparisons between Macedon and Monmouth, that the situations, look you, is both alike. There is a river in Macedon ; and there is also moreover a river at Monmouth...
Page 221 - There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it; I have killed many; I have fully glutted my vengeance: for my country I rejoice at the beams of peace. But do not harbor a thought that mine is the joy of fear.
Page 207 - Take, oh take those lips away, That so sweetly were forsworn; And those eyes, the break of day, Lights that do mislead the morn; But my kisses bring again, bring again, Seals of love, but seal'd in vain.
Page 80 - Welcome, folded arms, and fixed eyes, A sigh that piercing mortifies, A look that's fastened to the ground, A tongue chained up without a sound. Fountain-heads, and pathless groves, Places which pale passion loves...
Page 51 - The society then proceeded to the election of officers for the ensuing year with the following result : President, Dr.
Page 119 - twas muttered in Hell, And echo caught faintly the sound as it fell ; On the confines of earth 'twas permitted to rest, And the depths of the ocean its presence confessed.
Page 170 - DAYS of my youth, Ye have glided away; Hairs of my youth, Ye are frosted and gray; Eyes of my youth, Your keen sight is no more; Cheeks of my youth, Ye are furrowed all o'er; Strength of my youth, All your vigor is gone; Thoughts of my youth, Your gay visions are flown. Days of my youth...
Page 80 - Fountain heads and pathless groves, Places which pale passion loves ! Moonlight walks, when all the fowls Are warmly housed save bats and owls ! A midnight bell, a parting groan, These are the sounds we feed upon ; Then stretch our bones in a still gloomy valley : Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.
Page 5 - Morals and all considered, I cant think the Indians were much greater Heathens than the first Adventurers, who, had they been good Christians, would have had the Charity to take this only method of converting the Natives to Christianity. For, after all that can be said, a sprightly Lover is the most prevailing Missionary that can be sent amongst these, or any other Infidels.
Page 240 - Light that makes things seen, makes some things invisible, were it not for darkness and the shadow of the earth, the noblest part of the creation had remained unseen, and the stars in heaven as invisible as on the fourth day, when they were created above the horizon with the sun, or there was not an eye to behold them. The greatest mystery of religion is expressed by adumbration, and in the noblest part of Jewish types, we find the cherubims shadowing the mercy-seat.