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Page 406 - Why should ye be stricken any more ? ye will revolt more and more : the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it ; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores : they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.
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Page 590 - Knowe that for the present they shall have meate, drinke and clothing, with an howse, orchard and garden, for the meanest family, and a possession of lands to them and their posterity, one hundred acres for every man's person that hath a trade, or a body able to endure day labour, as much for his wief...
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Page 129 - III. A briefe declaration of the plantation of Virginia, during the first twelve years, when Sir Thomas Smith was governor of the company.
Page 50 - For in overtoyling in our weake and unskilfull bodies, to satisfie this desire of present profit, we can scarce ever recover ourselves from one supply to another.
Page 11 - ... the discovery of a good mine by the goodness of God, or a passage to the South sea, or some .way to it and nothing else, can bring this country in request to be inhabited by our nation.
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| Title | Economic History of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century: An Inquiry Into the Material Condition of the People, Based Upon Original and Contemporaneous Records, Volume 1 Economic History of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century: An Inquiry Into the Material Condition of the People, Based Upon Original and Contemporaneous Records, Philip Alexander Bruce |
| Author | Philip Alexander Bruce |
| Publisher | Macmillan and Company, 1895 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Jun 15, 2007 |
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