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... Land Department . - Patent Office . - Destruction of Models and Records . - Places of Public Worship in Washington .-- Anecdote of the Congres- sional Chaplains . - Colleges , Banks , Hotels , and Boarding - houses . - Theatres . - Mr ...
... Land Department . - Patent Office . - Destruction of Models and Records . - Places of Public Worship in Washington .-- Anecdote of the Congres- sional Chaplains . - Colleges , Banks , Hotels , and Boarding - houses . - Theatres . - Mr ...
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... Land and Capi- tal . - Growing opinion against the Use of Tobacco . - Cultivation of this noxious Weed by Slaves . - Exhaustion of the Soil in Virginia and Maryland . - Popular Appeal to Southern Men and Slaveholders . - Inconsistency ...
... Land and Capi- tal . - Growing opinion against the Use of Tobacco . - Cultivation of this noxious Weed by Slaves . - Exhaustion of the Soil in Virginia and Maryland . - Popular Appeal to Southern Men and Slaveholders . - Inconsistency ...
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... - Triumph of Steam Navigation . - Affecting Account of Fulton's Experimental Voyage . - Land- ing at Albany , and comfortable Home . . 459 AMERICA , HISTORICAL , STATISTICAL , AND DESCRIPTIVE . CHAPTER xii CONTENTS .
... - Triumph of Steam Navigation . - Affecting Account of Fulton's Experimental Voyage . - Land- ing at Albany , and comfortable Home . . 459 AMERICA , HISTORICAL , STATISTICAL , AND DESCRIPTIVE . CHAPTER xii CONTENTS .
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... land . But in both it is no doubt an offence that deserves to be punished with public censure ; first , for its injustice and ingratitude ; and next , because it has a tendency to lessen the disposition of even the most generous and ...
... land . But in both it is no doubt an offence that deserves to be punished with public censure ; first , for its injustice and ingratitude ; and next , because it has a tendency to lessen the disposition of even the most generous and ...
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... land - sharks , " as they are most appropriately called , all anxious to make the unsuspecting victim their prey . He is then decoyed by flattering words , and the offer of money for his immediate wants before his wages are paid , to ...
... land - sharks , " as they are most appropriately called , all anxious to make the unsuspecting victim their prey . He is then decoyed by flattering words , and the offer of money for his immediate wants before his wages are paid , to ...
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Seite iv - Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutored mind Sees God in clouds, or hears Him in the wind; His soul proud Science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or Milky Way...
Seite 510 - ... that all the instructors and teachers in the college shall take pains to instil into the minds of the scholars, the purest principles of morality, so that, on their entrance into active life, they may, from inclination and habit, evince benevolence towards their fellow-creatures, and a love of truth, sobriety, and industry, adopting at the same time such religious tenets as their matured reason may enable them to prefer.
Seite 322 - And thou, Philadelphia, the virgin settlement of this province, named before thou wert born, what love, what care, what service, and what travail, has there been to bring thee forth and preserve thee from such as would abuse and defile thee!
Seite 318 - LAWS of this government, to the great end of all government, viz: 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.
Seite 68 - Who can, with patience, for a moment see The medley mass of pride and misery, Of whips and charters, manacles and rights, Of slaving blacks and democratic whites, And all the pyebald polity that reigns In...
Seite 93 - But this is not all; they agree in rites; they reckon by moons; they offer their first fruits; they have a kind of feast of tabernacles; they are said to lay their altar upon twelve stones; their mourning a year; customs of women, with many other things that do not now occur.
Seite 413 - And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand. Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give.
Seite 357 - ... debts. In that case, when you meet with another honest man in similar distress, you must pay me by lending this sum to him ; enjoining him to discharge the debt by a like operation, when he shall be able, and shall meet with such another opportunity. I hope it may thus go through many hands, before it meets with a knave that will stop its progress.
Seite 508 - I, STEPHEN GIRARD, of the City of Philadelphia, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Mariner and Merchant, being of sound mind, memory, and understanding, do make and publish this my last Will and Testament, in manner following: that is to say— I. I give and bequeath unto " The Contributors to the Pennsylvania Hospital...
Seite 80 - ... in the heaven above, or in the earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth.