The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Historic AmericansTrübner, 1871 - 236 Seiten |
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... Pennsylvania , he went to England , landing there the 24th of December , 1724 . He followed his trade in London for about two years . He returned to Philadelphia on the 11th of October , 1726 , and resumed his business as printer ...
... Pennsylvania , he went to England , landing there the 24th of December , 1724 . He followed his trade in London for about two years . He returned to Philadelphia on the 11th of October , 1726 , and resumed his business as printer ...
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... Pennsylvania , from October , 1785 , to October , 1788 , and was also a member of the Federal Convention , which made the Constitution of the United States . He died on the 17th April , 1790 , aged eighty - four years and three months ...
... Pennsylvania , from October , 1785 , to October , 1788 , and was also a member of the Federal Convention , which made the Constitution of the United States . He died on the 17th April , 1790 , aged eighty - four years and three months ...
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... Pennsylvania Gazette , then bookseller , then almanac maker , then postmaster of Philadelphia , continuing always his printing trade . He had many irons in the fire , yet not one too many , for he was careful that none burned . He ...
... Pennsylvania Gazette , then bookseller , then almanac maker , then postmaster of Philadelphia , continuing always his printing trade . He had many irons in the fire , yet not one too many , for he was careful that none burned . He ...
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... Pennsylvania . He had been sent to England as a colonial agent to remonstrate against the despotism of the proprietaries . He was also appointed agent for Georgia , New Jersey , and Massachu- setts , and was commissioned to look after ...
... Pennsylvania . He had been sent to England as a colonial agent to remonstrate against the despotism of the proprietaries . He was also appointed agent for Georgia , New Jersey , and Massachu- setts , and was commissioned to look after ...
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... Pennsylvania , unanimously elected by the Assembly every time save the first , when one vote out of seventy - seven was cast against him . He had been a member of the Federal Convention , which made the Constitution , and , spite of ...
... Pennsylvania , unanimously elected by the Assembly every time save the first , when one vote out of seventy - seven was cast against him . He had been a member of the Federal Convention , which made the Constitution , and , spite of ...
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Seite 223 - The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to the worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities. The man must be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances.
Seite 53 - I happened soon after to attend one of his sermons, in the course of which I perceived he intended to finish with a collection, and I silently resolved he should get nothing from me. I had in my pocket a handful of copper money, three or four silver dollars, and five pistoles in gold. As he proceeded I began to soften and concluded to give the copper.
Seite 206 - The day that France takes possession of New Orleans, fixes the sentence which is to restrain her forever within her low-water mark. It seals the union of two nations, who, in conjunction, can maintain exclusive possession of the ocean. From that moment, we must marry ourselves to the British fleet and nation. We must turn all our...
Seite 96 - Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.
Seite 26 - We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness...
Seite 41 - ... is necessary to be taken from them, for the use of such armed force, the same shall be paid for at a reasonable price. And all...
Seite 17 - At his table he liked to have, as often as he could, some sensible friend or neighbor to converse with, and always took care to start some ingenious or useful topic for discourse, which might tend to improve the minds of his children. By this means he turned our attention to what was good, just, and prudent in the conduct of life...
Seite 222 - What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment, and death itself, in vindication of his own liberty, and, the next moment be deaf to all those motives whose power supported him through his trial, and inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more misery, than ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose.
Seite 48 - Inasmuch as ye have done it unto the least of these, ye have done it unto Me.
Seite 40 - If War should arise between the two Contracting Parties, the merchants of either country then residing in the other, shall be allowed to remain nine months to collect their debts and settle their affairs, and may depart freely, carrying off all their effects, without molestation or hindrance...