The Virginia Historical Register, and Literary Companion, Volumes 1-2Virginia Historical Society, 1848 - Virginia |
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... English and American freemen , thus early proclaimed by its infant voice , was afterwards in maturer age the first to announce a determined resistance to the unconstitutional taxation of the British parliament - which , after sharing so ...
... English and American freemen , thus early proclaimed by its infant voice , was afterwards in maturer age the first to announce a determined resistance to the unconstitutional taxation of the British parliament - which , after sharing so ...
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... But after- wards , in 1584 , when the English also discovered it further to the northward , Queen Elizabeth was pleased to name the coun- try Virginia , as a memorial that this happy discovery 12 THE VIRGINIA HISTORICAL REGISTER .
... But after- wards , in 1584 , when the English also discovered it further to the northward , Queen Elizabeth was pleased to name the coun- try Virginia , as a memorial that this happy discovery 12 THE VIRGINIA HISTORICAL REGISTER .
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... English in Virginia , and the first British settlement established anywhere on the continent of North America .- ( See Hakluyt , vol . iii , p . 251. ) Owing to many causes , and after various adventures , which it would be unnecessary ...
... English in Virginia , and the first British settlement established anywhere on the continent of North America .- ( See Hakluyt , vol . iii , p . 251. ) Owing to many causes , and after various adventures , which it would be unnecessary ...
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... English statute miles . We know now the exact quantity of each of these errors in our case ; but it must be recollected that one of them ( the last ) puz- zled Sir Issac Newton almost a century after 1609 , and delayed the publication ...
... English statute miles . We know now the exact quantity of each of these errors in our case ; but it must be recollected that one of them ( the last ) puz- zled Sir Issac Newton almost a century after 1609 , and delayed the publication ...
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so discover that two hundred English statute miles , measured along a meridian from the parallel of the point of Cape Comfort , will carry him to the parallel of 40 ° north laiitude ; which last parallel , as I will show hereafter , was ...
so discover that two hundred English statute miles , measured along a meridian from the parallel of the point of Cape Comfort , will carry him to the parallel of 40 ° north laiitude ; which last parallel , as I will show hereafter , was ...
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Page 41 - Why this Will lug your priests and servants from your sides; Pluck stout men's pillows from below their heads...
Page 16 - Point of Cape Comfort, all along the Sea Coast, to the Southward two hundred Miles, and all that Space and Circuit of Land, lying from the Sea Coast of the Precinct aforesaid, up into the Land, throughout from Sea to Sea, West, and Northwest...