Annals of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania: Being a Collection of Memoirs, Anecdotes, and Incidents of the City and Its Inhabitants, and of the Earliest Settlements of the Inland Part of Pennsylvania , from the Days of the Founders ...Parry and M'Millan, 1881 |
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... Persons and Characters , Aged Persons , Childhood and its Joys , 489 - 493 495 - 496 499 - 511 597 - 603 IN VOLUME I. And Directions to the Binder . Portrait Contents of Vol . I. XV.
... Persons and Characters , Aged Persons , Childhood and its Joys , 489 - 493 495 - 496 499 - 511 597 - 603 IN VOLUME I. And Directions to the Binder . Portrait Contents of Vol . I. XV.
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... persons , with their cattle and implements of husbandry , made their settlement up a creek two leagues from Cape Cornelius , which they named Swaenendael ( Swandale , ) or the Valley of Swans , because they were then nume- rous there ...
... persons , with their cattle and implements of husbandry , made their settlement up a creek two leagues from Cape Cornelius , which they named Swaenendael ( Swandale , ) or the Valley of Swans , because they were then nume- rous there ...
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... persons , scolders and railers ; finally , these laws , intended to have been permanent , and to have had a perpetual moral tendency , were to have been read as occasional reading lessons in the schools . Ah , what would our boys think ...
... persons , scolders and railers ; finally , these laws , intended to have been permanent , and to have had a perpetual moral tendency , were to have been read as occasional reading lessons in the schools . Ah , what would our boys think ...
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... persons soon got intermixed with the good , " a mingled web of good and ill ! " Although the Friends and their excellent morals were long predominant and widely diffused , yet some vile persons ( probably from the older colony of New ...
... persons soon got intermixed with the good , " a mingled web of good and ill ! " Although the Friends and their excellent morals were long predominant and widely diffused , yet some vile persons ( probably from the older colony of New ...
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... person of John . Evans , Esqr . , a young man of ability - but of free life , and of such occasional dissipation as to give umbrage to many serious persons . With him came William Penn , jun'r . the only son by the first wife . Although ...
... person of John . Evans , Esqr . , a young man of ability - but of free life , and of such occasional dissipation as to give umbrage to many serious persons . With him came William Penn , jun'r . the only son by the first wife . Although ...
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afterwards alley appearance Arch street Assembly bank bridge building built called cellar Charles Thomson Chester Chester county Chestnut street Christ church colony Council creek deemed Delaware died early England erected facts father feet Fifth street former Fourth street Franklin Friends Front street Gabriel Thomas garden Governor Grand Jury Grand Jury present ground High street honour Indians Isaac Norris James Logan John John Penn ladies land late letter lived Mayor meeting Morris Norris north-west corner occasion once original Patrick Robinson Pegg's run Penn's Pennsylvania persons Philadelphia province Quakers remembered river Samuel says Schuylkill Second street seen Society Hill Spruce street square stone stood story Swedes things Third street Thomas Thomas Penn Timothy Matlack tion told town trees Vine street Walnut street Water street wharf whole William Penn yard
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Página 418 - Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
Página 312 - Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them; and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them they are ruined too. Wherefore governments rather depend upon men, than men upon governments.
Página 12 - I feared lest it should be looked on as a vanity in me, and not as a respect in the king, as it truly was, to my father, whom he often mentions with praise.
Página 279 - He was chubby and plump — a right jolly old elf; And I laughed when I saw him, in spite of myself. A wink of his eye, and a twist of his head, Soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread. He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work, And filled all the stockings; then turned with a jerk, And laying his finger aside of his nose, And giving a nod, up the chimney he rose. He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle, And away they all flew like the down of a thistle ; But I heard him...
Página 312 - ... to support power in reverence with the people, and to secure the people from the abuse of power, that they may be free by their just obedience, and the magistrates honourable for their just administration ; for liberty without obedience is confusion, and obedience without liberty is slavery.
Página 279 - Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there.
Página 58 - AB, profess faith in God the Father, and in Jesus Christ his eternal Son, the true God, and in the Holy Spirit, one God blessed for evermore ; and do acknowledge the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be given by divine inspiration.
Página 279 - Gave the lustre of mid-day to objects below; When, what to my wondering eyes should appear, But a miniature sleigh and eight tiny reindeer, With a little old driver, so lively and quick, I knew in a moment it must be St. Nick.
Página 83 - I have so obtained it and desire to keep it, that I may not be unworthy of his love ; but do that which may answer his kind providence and serve his Truth and people ; that an example may be set up to the nations. There may be room there, though not here, for such an holy experiment.
Página 418 - — but there is no peace. The war is actually begun ! The next gale that sweeps from the North will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms. Our brethren are already in the field. Why stand we here idle?