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Pioneers of the Old South

CHAPTER XIII
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Nor, wider and deeper, are the Navigation Laws in any wise bettered.

No more than before, no more indeed than a century later, is there any conception that the child exists no more for the parent than the parent for the child.
Sir William Berkeley's loyalty had in the end overshot itself.

His zeal fatigued the King, and in 1677 he was recalled to England.

As Governor of Virginia he had been long popular at first but in his old age detested.

He had great personal courage, fidelity, and generosity for those things that ran with the current of a deep and narrow soul.


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