The History of Virginia: From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present TimeClaxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, 1872 - 332 pages |
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Page 241 - We next got it launched, then went on board of it and set off; but, before we were half way over, we were jammed in the ice in such a manner that we expected every moment our raft to sink, and ourselves to perish. I put out my setting-pole to try to stop the raft...
Page 254 - The supplicating tears of the women and moving petitions of the men melt me into such deadly sorrow, that I solemnly declare, if I know my own mind, I could offer myself a willing sacrifice to the butchering enemy, provided that would contribute to the people's ease.
Page 201 - The first object to which he turned his attention, was to obtain from the assembly the passage of an act to build a new city which should constitute in future the capital of the province, instead of the unfortunate and insalubrious Jamestown. Middle Plantation, where the new college buildings had already been erected, had been found by constant experience to be healthy and agreeable to the constitutions of the inhabitants of the colony, having the natural advantages of a serene and temperate air,...
Page 161 - CHAP. be claimed by the representatives of the people, 1 —v— and " worthy Samuel Matthews, an old planter, of nearly forty years' standing," who had been " a most deserving commonwealth's man, kept a good house, lived bravely and was a true lover of Virginia,
Page 148 - The governor shall not lay any taxes or impositions upon the colony, their lands or commodities, other way than by the authority of the General Assembly, to be levied and employed as the said Assembly shall appoint.
Page 239 - Many times," says Major Washington in his journal, " all hands were obliged to get out, and remain in the water half an hour or more in getting over the shoals. At one place the ice had lodged, and made it impassable by water ; and we were obliged to carry our canoe across a neck of land a quarter of a mile over.
Page 119 - From me he has a pledge, one of my daughters, which, so long as she lives, shall be sufficient; when she dies, he shall have another. I hold it not a brotherly part to desire to bereave me of my two children at once.
Page 289 - 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 117 - Hamor speak on. Speaking through the medium of Savage, his interpreter, Hamor told Powhattan that Sir Thomas Dale had sent him a present of two pieces of copper, five strings of white and blue beads, five wooden combs, ten fish-hooks, and a couple of knives ; and that when the emperor chose to send for it, he would also give him a grindstone. Thus far Powhattan expressed himself well pleased ; but when...
Page 171 - The party set out from Appomattox, and after a march of seven days reached the foot of the mountains. Those they first approached were neither high nor steep, but after they passed the first ridge, they encountered others which were so perpendicular, and so full of precipices, that it was with great difficutly they could travel three miles in a direct line in a whole day's march. In other places they found large level plains, dotted with groups of trees, and abounding with the deer, the elk, and...