Memoirs of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Band 1M'Carty and Davis, 1826 |
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... England . Granville Penn. Joseph Hopkinson , Thomas I. Wharton , Robert Walsh , Jr. Edward Bettle , George W. Smith , John M. Read , Gerard Ralston , John Vaughan . Thomas C. James , Samuel Jackson , J. Rhea Barton , Benjamin Ellis ...
... England . Granville Penn. Joseph Hopkinson , Thomas I. Wharton , Robert Walsh , Jr. Edward Bettle , George W. Smith , John M. Read , Gerard Ralston , John Vaughan . Thomas C. James , Samuel Jackson , J. Rhea Barton , Benjamin Ellis ...
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Historical Society of Pennsylvania. John Penn , HONORARY MEMBERS . England . Granville Penn , do . Richard Penn , do . Robert Barclay , ' do . Thomas Clarkson , do . David Baillie Warden , Paris . Henry Clay , Secretary of State ...
Historical Society of Pennsylvania. John Penn , HONORARY MEMBERS . England . Granville Penn , do . Richard Penn , do . Robert Barclay , ' do . Thomas Clarkson , do . David Baillie Warden , Paris . Henry Clay , Secretary of State ...
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... England or of France ? To this we answer that to our predecessors these mere labourers of our soil , we look for the elements of that success which almost uniformly has accompanied our progress , and on the same principles the relation ...
... England or of France ? To this we answer that to our predecessors these mere labourers of our soil , we look for the elements of that success which almost uniformly has accompanied our progress , and on the same principles the relation ...
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... England , it was conceived by the Swedes that there lay a tract of valuable country to which no European power had a claim , and desirous of sharing in the harvest of co- lonization , always alluring to European sovereigns , and in ...
... England , it was conceived by the Swedes that there lay a tract of valuable country to which no European power had a claim , and desirous of sharing in the harvest of co- lonization , always alluring to European sovereigns , and in ...
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... England , we are assured that the human race has nearly quadrupled itself , in the last hun- dred years . Some other principle must therefore be sought . Is it the facility of obtaining subsist- ence ? To this we are likewise referred ...
... England , we are assured that the human race has nearly quadrupled itself , in the last hun- dred years . Some other principle must therefore be sought . Is it the facility of obtaining subsist- ence ? To this we are likewise referred ...
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Seite 246 - In the discharge of this trust I will only say that I have, with good intentions, contributed towards the organization and administration of the government the best exertions of which a very fallible judgment was capable. Not unconscious, in the outset, of the inferiority of my qualifications, experience, in my own eyes, perhaps still more in the eyes of others, has strengthened the motives to diffidence of myself...
Seite 108 - THOMAS (GABRIEL). An Historical and Geographical Account of the Province and Country of Pensilvania; and of West-New-Jersey in America.
Seite 101 - I thank God there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have, these hundred years, for learning has brought disobedience and heresies and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them and libels against the best government. God keep us from both...
Seite 165 - Castle town, unto the three and fortieth degree of northern latitude, if the said river doth extend so far northward...
Seite 419 - 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.
Seite 203 - 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.
Seite 125 - Junto do towards securing it? 17. Is there any man whose friendship you want, and which the Junto or any of them, can procure for you? 18. Have you lately heard any member's character attacked, and how have you defended it? 19. Hath any man injured you, from whom it is in the power of the Junto to procure redress? 20. In what manner can the Junto, or any of them, assist you in any of your honourable designs?
Seite 201 - I purpose that which is extraordinary, and to leave myself and successors no power of doing mischief, that the will of one man may not hinder the good of a whole country...
Seite 121 - Silence, ye wolves ! while Ralph to Cynthia howls And makes night hideous — Answer him, ye owls ! " Sense, speech, and measure, living tongues and dead, Let all give way, and Morris may be read.
Seite 166 - The said land to extend westward five degrees in longitude, to be computed from the said eastern bounds, and the said lands to be bounded on the north by the beginning of the three and fortieth degree of northern latitude, and on the south by a circle drawn at twelve miles distance from New Castle, northward and westward unto the beginning of the fortieth degree of northern latitude, and then by a straight line westward to the limits of longitude above mentioned.