Outlines of the Literary History of Colonial PennsylvaniaPress of the New Era Printing Company, 1906 - 177 páginas |
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... wrote a constitution and encouraged the settlement . Thus he became familiar with the new lands and interested in their development . When the second half of the province , given by the Duke of York to Governor Carteret , was offered by ...
... wrote a constitution and encouraged the settlement . Thus he became familiar with the new lands and interested in their development . When the second half of the province , given by the Duke of York to Governor Carteret , was offered by ...
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... wrote an Encomium Pennsylvaniæ in 1678 , which with the former production was found in manuscript along with the papers of James Logan , for whom they were composed . In both , Makin dwells on the fertility of the land , the ex ...
... wrote an Encomium Pennsylvaniæ in 1678 , which with the former production was found in manuscript along with the papers of James Logan , for whom they were composed . In both , Makin dwells on the fertility of the land , the ex ...
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... wrote : " I was really troubled , and did design , according to that small knowledge that I had , to pleasure these my Countrymen with that which they wanted . " The printer added an explanation : Hereby understand that after great ...
... wrote : " I was really troubled , and did design , according to that small knowledge that I had , to pleasure these my Countrymen with that which they wanted . " The printer added an explanation : Hereby understand that after great ...
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... wrote and published The Excellent Privi- lege of Liberty and Property , containing an abstract of the Patent granted him by the King and the Charter given by Penn to the inhabitants . The only other work of his that concerns us , The ...
... wrote and published The Excellent Privi- lege of Liberty and Property , containing an abstract of the Patent granted him by the King and the Charter given by Penn to the inhabitants . The only other work of his that concerns us , The ...
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... wrote : " No doubt but you will like this Country well , We that did leave our Country thought it strange That ever we should make so good exchange . " 23 The second poem , longer and better , entitled A True Re- lation of the ...
... wrote : " No doubt but you will like this Country well , We that did leave our Country thought it strange That ever we should make so good exchange . " 23 The second poem , longer and better , entitled A True Re- lation of the ...
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Outlines of the Literary History of Colonial Pennsylvania ... M. Katherine Jackson Vista completa - 1906 |
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Página 121 - ... Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered ; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly : it is dearness only that gives every thing its value.
Página 122 - I have as little superstition in me as any man living, but my secret opinion has ever been, and still is, that GOD Almighty will not give up a people to military destruction, or leave them unsupportedly to perish, who have so earnestly and so repeatedly sought to avoid the calamities of war, by every decent method which wisdom could invent.
Página 65 - Thus the old gentleman ended his harangue. The people heard it and approved the doctrine, and immediately practised the contrary, just as if it had been a common sermon ; for the auction opened, and they began to buy extravagantly.
Página 120 - These are the times that try men's souls : The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it Now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
Página 65 - I will give it you in short ; 'for a word to the wise is enough,' as poor Richard says." They joined in desiring him to speak his mind, and gathering round him, he proceeded as follows : — " Friends," says he, " the taxes are indeed very heavy ; and, if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them ; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness...
Página 57 - The institution soon manifested its utility, was imitated by other towns, and in other provinces. The libraries were augmented by donations ; reading became fashionable; and our people, having no public amusements to divert their attention from study, became better acquainted with books, and in a few years were observed by strangers to be better instructed and more intelligent than people of the same rank generally are in other countries.
Página 65 - Ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them ; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our Idleness, three times as much by our Pride, and four times as much by our Folly; and from these Taxes the Commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing an Abatement. However let us hearken to good Advice, and something may be done for us; God helps them that help themselves, as Poor Richard says, in his Almanack of 1733.
Página 113 - Let these truths be indelibly impressed on our minds — that we cannot be happy without being free — that we cannot be free without being secure in our property — that we cannot be secure in our property, if, without our consent others may, as by right, take it away...
Página 55 - Godfrey, a self-taught mathematician, great in his way, and afterward inventor of what is now called Hadley's Quadrant. But he knew little out of his way, and was not a pleasing companion; as, like most great mathematicians I have met with, he expected universal precision in everything said, or was for ever denying or distinguishing upon trifles, to the disturbance of all conversation.
Página 121 - But as the scenes of war are closed, and every man preparing for home and happier times, I therefore take my leave of the subject. I have most sincerely followed it from beginning to end, and through all its turns and windings: and whatever country I may hereafter be in, I shall always feel an honest pride at the part I have taken and acted, and a gratitude to nature and providence for putting it in my power to be of some use to mankind.