The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Band 35Historical Society of Pennsylvania., 1911 |
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Seite 239 - WE do therefore hereby farther ordain, that from and after the Date hereof, no Mill or other Engine for Slitting or Rolling of Iron, or any Plating Forge to work with a Tilt-Hammer, or any Furnace for making Steel...
Seite 37 - The memory of the dead is honored and revered for what they were, what they stood for, and the results they accomplished in life. There is something in human nature which causes us to reward merit. The actual knowledge of a great thing accomplished is a thousand times more potent than a library of arguments as to how it could not have been done without the advice and superior judgment of this, that, or the other individual, and that this, that or the other is entitled to the credit for the great...
Seite 382 - Will, and that they heard him publish, pronounce and declare the same to be his last Will and Testament, that at the time of his so doing he was to the best of their apprehensions of sound and disposing mind, memory and understanding and that they respectively subscribed their names as witnesses to this Will, in the presence and at the request of the testator, and in the presence of each other, and that they saw Phillip Mothersbaugh do the same.
Seite 23 - Keep to your sabres, men, keep to your sabres!" for the lessons they had learned at Brandy Station and at Aldie had been severe. There the cry had been: "Put up your sabres! Draw your pistols and fight like gentlemen!" But the sabre was never a favorite weapon with the Confederate cavalry, and now, in spite of the lessons of the past, the warnings of the present were not heeded by all. As the charge was ordered the speed increased, every horse on the jump, every man yelling like a demon.
Seite 291 - God; to acknowledge with gratitude their obligation to him for benefits received, and to implore such farther blessings as they stand in need of; and it having pleased him in his abundant mercy not only to continue to us the innumerable bounties of his common providence, but also to smile upon us in the prosecution of a just and necessary war, for the defence and establishment of our unalienable rights and liberties...
Seite 375 - Sum, which you desire may be paid to him. I am with great Regard Dear Sir, Your most obedient humble Servant, THO* GAGE.
Seite 373 - ... joyous occasion, while a corps of British deserters, taken into the service of the continent by the state of Georgia, being drawn up before the door, filled up the intervals with feux de joie. After dinner a number of toasts were drank, all breathing independence, and a generous love of liberty, and commemorating the memories of those brave and worthy patriots who gallantly exposed their lives, and fell gloriously in defence of freedom and the righteous cause of their country. Each toast was...
Seite 495 - Commd'-inChief approves of the sentence and orders it to be put in execution tomorrow morning at the head of the Reg
Seite 420 - The part he acted against me in the late war, which is of public notoriety, will account for my leaving him no more of an estate he endeavoured to deprive me of.
Seite 53 - Philadelphia in the period in which it was published, it is not a matter of record that any attention was paid to it. If the story of this truly remarkable balloon ascension ever was read there in those times, evidently no person took the trouble to correct it. Proving that the ascension never took place does not take away from Philadelphia the honor of being the first city in the United States to encourage aeronautics, for there was a genuine ascent some months later which, as has been remarked,...