Historical Collections of the State of Pennsylvania: Containing a Copious Selection of the Most Interesting Facts, Traditions, Biographical Sketches, Anecdotes, Etc., Relating to Its History and Antiquities, Both General and Local, with Topographical Descriptions of Every County and All the Larger Towns in the StateG. W. Gorton, 1843 - 708 oldal |
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48. oldal
... extensive prevalence of the German language , or rather the Pennsylvanian dialect of the German , was not without a pernicious effect upon the cause of education . There were German newspapers , but not a very plentiful supply of German ...
... extensive prevalence of the German language , or rather the Pennsylvanian dialect of the German , was not without a pernicious effect upon the cause of education . There were German newspapers , but not a very plentiful supply of German ...
51. oldal
... extensive class of brokers sprang into existence . Counterfeiters also added to the mass of paper in circulation . Congress chartered the second Bank of the United States , with a capital of thirty - five millions of dollars , on the ...
... extensive class of brokers sprang into existence . Counterfeiters also added to the mass of paper in circulation . Congress chartered the second Bank of the United States , with a capital of thirty - five millions of dollars , on the ...
58. oldal
... extensive manufacture of coaches , but that business has declined with the change of the times . Gettysburg is 114 miles from Philadelphia , 36 from Harrisburg , and 52 from Baltimore . The principal trade of the region is carried on ...
... extensive manufacture of coaches , but that business has declined with the change of the times . Gettysburg is 114 miles from Philadelphia , 36 from Harrisburg , and 52 from Baltimore . The principal trade of the region is carried on ...
61. oldal
... The buildings erected by Mr. McCosh , who was for some years the proprietor , are extensive and comfortable ; and the gounds and neighbor- ing hills are highly picturesque . More fashionable resorts at. ADAMS COUNTY . 61.
... The buildings erected by Mr. McCosh , who was for some years the proprietor , are extensive and comfortable ; and the gounds and neighbor- ing hills are highly picturesque . More fashionable resorts at. ADAMS COUNTY . 61.
63. oldal
... extensive farms and comfortable mansions . The forest trees , which are of every variety , are large , healthy , and of luxuriant growth , indi- cating great fertility of soil . Fruit trees are abundant ALLEGHENY COUNTY . 63.
... extensive farms and comfortable mansions . The forest trees , which are of every variety , are large , healthy , and of luxuriant growth , indi- cating great fertility of soil . Fruit trees are abundant ALLEGHENY COUNTY . 63.
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468. oldal - There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it. I have killed many. I have fully glutted my vengeance. For my country I rejoice at the beams of peace; but do not harbor a thought that mine is the joy of fear.
576. oldal - THE BODY of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Printer, (like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out, and stript of its lettering and gilding) lies here food for worms ; yet the work itself shall not be lost, for it will (as he believed) appear once more in a new and more beautiful edition, corrected and amended by THE AUTHOR.
377. oldal - And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt : get you down thither, and buy for us from thence ; that we may live, and not die.
585. oldal - I do not mean to cast any reflection upon any sect or person whatsoever ; but, as there is such a multitude of sects, and such a diversity of opinion amongst them, I desire to keep the tender minds of the orphans, who are to derive advantage from this bequest, free from the excitement, which clashing doctrines and sectarian controversy are so apt to produce...
75. oldal - I luckily escaped without a wound, though I had four bullets through my coat, and two horses shot under me.
569. oldal - New York declared they were for it themselves, and were assured their constituents were for it, but that their instructions having been drawn near a twelvemonth before, when reconciliation was still the general object, they were enjoined by them to do nothing which should impede that object. They therefore thought themselves not justifiable in voting on either side and asked leave to withdraw from the question, which was given them.
13. oldal - ... distance from New Castle, northward and westward unto the beginning of the fortieth degree of northern latitude, and then by a straight line westward to the limits of longitude above mentioned.
267. oldal - Alone, yet not alone am I, Though in this solitude so drear ; * I feel my Saviour always nigh, He comes the weary hour to cheer. I am with him and he with me, — E'en here alone I cannot be !" The Colonel desired her to sing the hymn as she used to do.
90. oldal - This was a whole day's work, we next got it launched then went on board of it and set off. But before we were half way over we were jammed in the ice in such a manner that we expected every moment our raft to sink and ourselves to perish.
405. oldal - The language was uniformly that of scorn, or sneer, or ridicule. The loud laugh often rose at my expense ; the dry jest ; the wise calculation of losses and expenditures ; the dull, but endless, repetition of the Fulton Folly.