Collections, Historical & Miscellaneous, and Monthly Literary Journal, Band 3J.B. Moore, 1824 |
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... June 27 , 1777 , he was appointed by the General Court , and commissioned by Meshech Weare , a justice of the peace and of the quorum for the county of Rockingham . July 18 , Josiah Bartlett and Nathaniel Peabody were appointed by this ...
... June 27 , 1777 , he was appointed by the General Court , and commissioned by Meshech Weare , a justice of the peace and of the quorum for the county of Rockingham . July 18 , Josiah Bartlett and Nathaniel Peabody were appointed by this ...
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... June , and immediately became an active and useful member . The 3d of September he was added to the Medical Committee , and must soon have become chairman of it , as the general return of the sick and wounded in the hospital of the ...
... June , and immediately became an active and useful member . The 3d of September he was added to the Medical Committee , and must soon have become chairman of it , as the general return of the sick and wounded in the hospital of the ...
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... June 5th , they write , “ Since our last , we have received a letter from the Commander in Chief , stating the necessity of specific requisitions from the States , for men , provisions , forage , and the means of transportation . We ...
... June 5th , they write , “ Since our last , we have received a letter from the Commander in Chief , stating the necessity of specific requisitions from the States , for men , provisions , forage , and the means of transportation . We ...
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... June next , you must go on in doing all the good you can for us , for “ verily you shall have your reward . " I am fully sensible that no gentleman can add to his for . tune by attending Congress . ” President Weare , in a letter to him ...
... June next , you must go on in doing all the good you can for us , for “ verily you shall have your reward . " I am fully sensible that no gentleman can add to his for . tune by attending Congress . ” President Weare , in a letter to him ...
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... June 21 , he was appointed a Delegate to Congress for one year , commencing the November following ; but it is probable he never took his seat , as he informed the General Court , November 3 , that having 92 . 66 good reason to expect ...
... June 21 , he was appointed a Delegate to Congress for one year , commencing the November following ; but it is probable he never took his seat , as he informed the General Court , November 3 , that having 92 . 66 good reason to expect ...
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Seite 76 - Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? May I not wash in them, and be clean?
Seite 337 - He was bred to the law, which is, in my opinion, one of the first and noblest of human sciences ; a science which does more to quicken and invigorate the understanding, than all the other kinds of learning put together; but it is not apt, except in persons very happily born, to open and to liberalize the mind exactly in the same proportion.
Seite 40 - The Family Shakspeare ; in which nothing is added to the Original Text ; but those words and expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud. By T. BOWDLEB, Esq. FRS New Edition, in Volumes for the Pocket ; with 36 Wood Engravings, from Designs by Smirke, Howard, and other Artists.
Seite 349 - Having undertaken, for the Glory of God and advancement of the Christian Faith and Honor of our King and Country, a Voyage to plant the First Colony in the Northern Parts of Virginia...
Seite 45 - English Traits;" "The Conduct of Life;" "May-Day and other Poems " and " Society and Solitude;" besides many others. He was a prominent member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, of the American Philosophical Society, the Massachusetts Historical Society and other kindred associations.
Seite 85 - Country men, let not the meannesse of the word fish distaste you, for it will afford as good gold as the Mines of Guiana or Potassie, with lesse hazard and charge, and more certainty and facility.
Seite 208 - I proceed to lay it down as a rule, that one man of discernment is better fitted to analise and estimate the peculiar qualities adapted to particular offices, than a body of men of equal, or perhaps even of superior discernment. The sole and undivided responsibility of one man will naturally beget a livelier sense of duty and a more exact regard to reputation.
Seite 141 - A severe and proud dame she was ; bestowing every day in dressing herself near as much time as any of the gentry of the land : powdering her hair and painting her face, going with her necklaces, with jewels in her ears, and bracelets upon her hands. When she had dressed herself, her work was to make girdles of wampum and beads.
Seite 112 - I fell a weeping; which was the first time, to my remembrance, that I wept before them. Although I had met with so much affliction, and my heart was many times ready to break, yet could I not shed one tear in their sight, but rather had been all this while in a maze, and like one astonished ; but now I may say as Psal. 137 : 1, — " By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.
Seite 144 - She had a kersey coat, covered with girdles of wampum from the loins upward. Her arms, from her elbows to her hands, were covered with bracelets ; there were handfuls of necklaces about her neck, and several sorts of jewels in her ears. She had fine red stockings and white shoes, her hair powdered and her face painted red, that was always before black.