The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Volumen14Historical Society of Pennsylvania., 1890 |
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... lived to a great age , and nearly half of his long life was passed in daily care , and much of it in daily work , for our society . When we came to the hall and found him neither standing in the South rooms nor sitting in the North room ...
... lived to a great age , and nearly half of his long life was passed in daily care , and much of it in daily work , for our society . When we came to the hall and found him neither standing in the South rooms nor sitting in the North room ...
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... lived , and here , though never a resident pupil at Nazareth Hall , he was permitted , with his cousin , James Henry , to attend as a day - scholar . " But what we most enjoyed , " writes his now venerable relative , " were the long ...
... lived , and here , though never a resident pupil at Nazareth Hall , he was permitted , with his cousin , James Henry , to attend as a day - scholar . " But what we most enjoyed , " writes his now venerable relative , " were the long ...
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... lived to see fully confirmed . I have thus far spoken of John Jordan , Jr. , in his active business life . I come now to speak of the details of another period of his life which appeal very strongly to the love and gratitude of the ...
... lived to see fully confirmed . I have thus far spoken of John Jordan , Jr. , in his active business life . I come now to speak of the details of another period of his life which appeal very strongly to the love and gratitude of the ...
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... name by so many who called him their friend . What he would not permit us to say while he lived , because he shrank from the praise of man , we may freely say now , after he has passed away , when xxxiv In Memory of John Jordan , Jr.
... name by so many who called him their friend . What he would not permit us to say while he lived , because he shrank from the praise of man , we may freely say now , after he has passed away , when xxxiv In Memory of John Jordan , Jr.
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... lived , or rather in which he came to adult age and charac- ter in his profession , there was no crowd of cities in our country to prevent a marked local reputation at the Bar of a particular city , from passing freely through the ...
... lived , or rather in which he came to adult age and charac- ter in his profession , there was no crowd of cities in our country to prevent a marked local reputation at the Bar of a particular city , from passing freely through the ...
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Página 275 - Sir, a letter which I received last night contained the following paragraph. "In a letter from General Conway to General Gates, he says, heaven has been determined to save your country, or a weak general and bad counsellors would have ruined it.
Página 281 - I can assure those gentlemen that it is a much easier and less distressing thing to draw remonstrances in a comfortable room by a good fireside than to occupy a cold, bleak hill and sleep under frost and snow without clothes or blankets.
Página xxx - Verily, verily, I say unto thee, When thou wast young, thou girdedst thyself, and walkedst whither thou wouldest : but when thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee, and carry thee whither thou wouldest not.
Página 325 - Testator, as his last Will and Testament in the presence of us, who, in his presence and at his request, have Subscribed as Witnesses Benjm.
Página 113 - As to pay, Sir, I beg leave to assure the Congress, that, as no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment, at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness, I do not wish to make any profit from it. I will keep an exact account of my expenses. Those, I doubt not, they will discharge; and that is all I desire.
Página 364 - If I were to be called upon to draw a picture of the times and of men, from what I have seen, heard, and in part know, I should in one word say, that idleness, dissipation, and extravagance seem to have laid fast hold of most of them; that speculation, peculation, and an insatiable thirst for riches seem to have got the better of every other consideration, and almost of every order of men...
Página 247 - Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past; which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon As done...
Página 123 - And took off their chariot wheels, that they drave them heavily : so that the Egyptians said, Let us flee from the face of Israel; for the Lord fighteth for them against the Egyptians.
Página 117 - The Continental Congress having now taken all the troops of the several colonies, which have been raised or which may be hereafter raised for the support and defence of the liberties of America, into their pay and service, they are now the troops of the UNITED PROVINCES OF NORTH AMERICA; and it is hoped, that all distinctions of colonies will be laid aside...
Página 449 - Here shall the Press the people's right maintain, Unawed by influence and unbribed by gain. Here patriot Truth her glorious precepts draw, Pledged to Religion, Liberty and Law.