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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... says : - " The first planters were Dutch . Soon after the Swedes and Fins came . The Dutch trafficked , and the others turned to husbandry near the freshes of the river . " See also the same idea in his letter of August , 1683 , to the ...
... says : - " The first planters were Dutch . Soon after the Swedes and Fins came . The Dutch trafficked , and the others turned to husbandry near the freshes of the river . " See also the same idea in his letter of August , 1683 , to the ...
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... says Penn , were good and in vast quantities . Wild fowl was in abundance . Wild pigeons , says another , were like clouds , and often flew so low as to be knocked down with sticks . Wild turkeys sometimes were so immoderately fat and ...
... says Penn , were good and in vast quantities . Wild fowl was in abundance . Wild pigeons , says another , were like clouds , and often flew so low as to be knocked down with sticks . Wild turkeys sometimes were so immoderately fat and ...
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... says with much truth , " I must , without vanity , say that I have led the greatest colony into America that ever any man did upon a private credit , and the most prosperous beginnings that ever were in it are to be found among us ...
... says with much truth , " I must , without vanity , say that I have led the greatest colony into America that ever any man did upon a private credit , and the most prosperous beginnings that ever were in it are to be found among us ...
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... ( says he , in his letter from Chester , ) spending my life , my time , my money , without being a sixpence enriched by my greatness . Had I sought greatness only , I had stayed at henie , where the difference between what I am , and was ...
... ( says he , in his letter from Chester , ) spending my life , my time , my money , without being a sixpence enriched by my greatness . Had I sought greatness only , I had stayed at henie , where the difference between what I am , and was ...
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... say my expenses is the ground of my present in- cumbrance . " His quit rents , he 66 says , were at least £ 500 per annum , but he could not get one penny . " I had several MS . letters in my possession , of the above period of time ...
... say my expenses is the ground of my present in- cumbrance . " His quit rents , he 66 says , were at least £ 500 per annum , but he could not get one penny . " I had several MS . letters in my possession , of the above period of time ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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?