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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4. oldal
... head of Philadelphia Co. , he omitted to insert a short biographical notice of John Fitch , the original , but unfortunate inventor of steamboats . In 1788 he started a boat on the Delaware , which went to Burlington at the rate of ...
... head of Philadelphia Co. , he omitted to insert a short biographical notice of John Fitch , the original , but unfortunate inventor of steamboats . In 1788 he started a boat on the Delaware , which went to Burlington at the rate of ...
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... head of three hundred men , crossed the Allegheny Mountains and cut off the Indian town of Kittanning . This drove the hostile Indians beyond the Allegheny river . In the following year the assembly again yielded to the pressuré of the ...
... head of three hundred men , crossed the Allegheny Mountains and cut off the Indian town of Kittanning . This drove the hostile Indians beyond the Allegheny river . In the following year the assembly again yielded to the pressuré of the ...
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... head of the army . A post - office department was organized , at the head of which Benjamin Franklin was placed . The assembly of Pennsylvania immediately took measures to raise the four thousand three hundred men apportioned to the ...
... head of the army . A post - office department was organized , at the head of which Benjamin Franklin was placed . The assembly of Pennsylvania immediately took measures to raise the four thousand three hundred men apportioned to the ...
39. oldal
... head of a detachment of British and Hessian grenadiers . The remainder of his army encamped at Ger- mantown . The royalists in Philadelphia welcomed Gen. Howe with transports of joy ; and during the winter the British officers were ...
... head of a detachment of British and Hessian grenadiers . The remainder of his army encamped at Ger- mantown . The royalists in Philadelphia welcomed Gen. Howe with transports of joy ; and during the winter the British officers were ...
58. oldal
... head of his column , at Fort Washington . He endured a tedious captivity and hard treatment , which induced the complaint that terminated his life . " The following is extracted from the " Lutheran Almanac , " for 1842 : - Theological ...
... head of his column , at Fort Washington . He endured a tedious captivity and hard treatment , which induced the complaint that terminated his life . " The following is extracted from the " Lutheran Almanac , " for 1842 : - Theological ...
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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.