The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Tập 20Historical Society of Pennsylvania., 1896 |
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Trang 127 - By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name. 16 But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
Trang 159 - Barking steeple, and there saw the saddest sight of desolation that I ever saw; every where great fires, oyle-cellars, and brimstone, and other things burning. I became afraid to stay there long, and therefore down again as fast as I could, the fire being spread as far as I could see it; and to Sir W.
Trang 172 - Conventicles," provided that any person who should be present at any meeting, under colour or pretence of any exercise of religion, in other manner than according to the liturgy and practice of the Church of England...
Trang 354 - The publications in Freneau's and Bache's papers are outrages on common decency ; and they progress in that style, in proportion as their pieces are treated with contempt, and are passed by in silence, by those at whom they are aimed.
Trang 480 - I know of no pursuit in which more real and important service can be rendered to any country, than by improving its agriculture...
Trang 378 - My dear wife ! remember thou wast the love of my youth, and much the joy of my life ; the most beloved, as well as most worthy of all my earthly comforts : and the reason of that love was more thy inward than thy outward excellencies, which yet were many.
Trang 182 - Point, and running another direct line at a right angle with the first, across the Potomac, ten miles, for the second line ; then, from the...
Trang 366 - America," observes he, in one of his letters, " is more pleasantly situated In a high and healthy country ; in a latitude between the extremes of heat and cold ; on one of the finest rivers in the world ; a river well stocked with various kinds of fish at all seasons of the year, and in the spring with shad, herrings, bass, carp, sturgeon, etc., in great abundance.
Trang 182 - The parties to whom I addressed myself yesterday evening, having taken the matter into consideration saw the propriety of my observations ; and that whilst they were contending for the shadow they might loose the substance ; and therefore mutually agreed and entered into articles to surrender for public purposes, one half of the land they severally possessed within bounds which were designated as necessary for the City to stand with some other stipulations, which were inserted in the instrument which...
Trang 343 - at the eve of a crisis," adds : " The fuel which has been already gathered for combustion wants no addition. But how awfully might it be increased, were the violence, which is now suspended by a universal submission to your pretensions, let loose by your resignation. Permit me, then, in the fervor of a dutiful and affectionate attachment to you, to beseech you to penetrate the consequences of a dereliction of the reins. The Constitution would never have been adopted but from a knowledge that you...