The History of Pennsylvania in North America, from the Original Institution and Settlement of that Province Under the First Proprietor and Governor, William Penn, in 1681, Till After the Year 1742: With an Introduction Respecting the Life of W. Penn, Prior to the Grant of the Province, and the Religious Society of the People Called Quakers : with the First Rise of the Neighbouring Colonies, More Particularly of West-New-Jersey, and the Settlement of the Dutch and Swedes on Delaware : to which is Added a Brief Description of the Said Province and of the General States in which it Flourished, Principally Between the Years 1760 and 1770 : the Whole Including a Variety of Things, Useful and Interesting to be Known, Respecting that Country in Early Time, &c. : with an AppendixZachariah Poulson, Junior, number eighty, Chesnut-Street, 1797 - Delaware |
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... it might excite a fimilar conduct in pofterity , & c . " Non minor eft virtus quàm quærere parta tueri . ” That which renders people happy , is neceffary to keep them fo . Though The means , or mate- rials . C. Pufey &
... it might excite a fimilar conduct in pofterity , & c . " Non minor eft virtus quàm quærere parta tueri . ” That which renders people happy , is neceffary to keep them fo . Though The means , or mate- rials . C. Pufey &
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... conduct is no less contradictory , and fometimes feemingly ir- rational ; they are fo liable to embrace opposite ex- tremes , that they often deviate from the middle way of rectitude : Hence , while the forward , selfish and lefs ...
... conduct is no less contradictory , and fometimes feemingly ir- rational ; they are fo liable to embrace opposite ex- tremes , that they often deviate from the middle way of rectitude : Hence , while the forward , selfish and lefs ...
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... conduct of fome in later years ? -Certainly , if fuch reafoning , or conduct , as this , ought to prevail , and be imi- tated , in the extreme , then , to be confiftent with themselves , it is most manifest , such persons as reafon and ...
... conduct of fome in later years ? -Certainly , if fuch reafoning , or conduct , as this , ought to prevail , and be imi- tated , in the extreme , then , to be confiftent with themselves , it is most manifest , such persons as reafon and ...
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... conduct of the poffeffors of them , as their restoration will do , on means fimilar to thofe , which raised , and fo long preserved , the happy state of the province of Pennsylvania . Philadelphia , 1797 . INTRODUCTION . CONTENTS OF THE ...
... conduct of the poffeffors of them , as their restoration will do , on means fimilar to thofe , which raised , and fo long preserved , the happy state of the province of Pennsylvania . Philadelphia , 1797 . INTRODUCTION . CONTENTS OF THE ...
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... conduct of those great men of antiquity , who have benefited man- kind , in their moft effential interefts , they ap- pear frequently to have been actuated by motives , the most difinterested , and attended with a fatisfac- tion more ...
... conduct of those great men of antiquity , who have benefited man- kind , in their moft effential interefts , they ap- pear frequently to have been actuated by motives , the most difinterested , and attended with a fatisfac- tion more ...
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