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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... means , by which small things become great , and what formerly made the country happy , it might excite a fimilar conduct in pofterity , & c . " Non minor eft virtus quàm quærere parta tueri . ” That which renders people happy , is ...
... means , by which small things become great , and what formerly made the country happy , it might excite a fimilar conduct in pofterity , & c . " Non minor eft virtus quàm quærere parta tueri . ” That which renders people happy , is ...
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... means , or mate- rials . C. Pufey & first collec- memorials , & c . Though the materials of this performance , and the regular accounts of the early progreffive ad- vances of this country , left by those who were moft capable of giving ...
... means , or mate- rials . C. Pufey & first collec- memorials , & c . Though the materials of this performance , and the regular accounts of the early progreffive ad- vances of this country , left by those who were moft capable of giving ...
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... means of the fame kind of evi- nefit of hif- dence , or proof , fo far as history favors us with tory , & c . the experience of former times , in all ages and countries , that men may be taught , not only that the happy state of any ...
... means of the fame kind of evi- nefit of hif- dence , or proof , fo far as history favors us with tory , & c . the experience of former times , in all ages and countries , that men may be taught , not only that the happy state of any ...
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... means of this melioration , in the state of mankind , by infifting , fo much as he did , on the early culti- vation of piety and virtue , and on a good educa- tion of youth , in its different branches ; with a just and vigorous ...
... means of this melioration , in the state of mankind , by infifting , fo much as he did , on the early culti- vation of piety and virtue , and on a good educa- tion of youth , in its different branches ; with a just and vigorous ...
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... mean views , folicit and fucceed into the public offices and magiftracy , as well as into divers other important some cau- departments of life , for which they are unfit and fect in go- improper , it is to be regretted , that fometimes ...
... mean views , folicit and fucceed into the public offices and magiftracy , as well as into divers other important some cau- departments of life , for which they are unfit and fect in go- improper , it is to be regretted , that fometimes ...
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