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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... truth thereof ; that , in the many volumes of the history of all ages and kingdoms of the world , there is not one inftance to be found , where the hand of God was against a righteous nation , or when the hand of God was not against an ...
... truth thereof ; that , in the many volumes of the history of all ages and kingdoms of the world , there is not one inftance to be found , where the hand of God was against a righteous nation , or when the hand of God was not against an ...
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... truth feem to fuf- fer ; and when an Aristides is exiled , justice appears to be in difgrace . But virtue is its own reward , and depends not on the fluctuating opinions of mortals , nor on the breath of popular applaufe ; which is ...
... truth feem to fuf- fer ; and when an Aristides is exiled , justice appears to be in difgrace . But virtue is its own reward , and depends not on the fluctuating opinions of mortals , nor on the breath of popular applaufe ; which is ...
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... truth of the information which his father had received ; who thereupon at- tacked him afresh . " And here my pen ( fays the writer of his life ) is diffident of her abilities to de fcribe that most pathetic and moving conteft , be ...
... truth of the information which his father had received ; who thereupon at- tacked him afresh . " And here my pen ( fays the writer of his life ) is diffident of her abilities to de fcribe that most pathetic and moving conteft , be ...
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... truths , affociate and affemble together , for divine worship ; to bear a joint teftimony for the truth , againft error ; and for the mutual edifica- tion and strengthening of one another : -So that a perfon may be a member of the true ...
... truths , affociate and affemble together , for divine worship ; to bear a joint teftimony for the truth , againft error ; and for the mutual edifica- tion and strengthening of one another : -So that a perfon may be a member of the true ...
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... truth , and not to be confined to any external mode , place or particular perfon ; and for this reafon , because God is a spirit ; and confe- quently a fpiritual worship is the fole rational , and moft agreeable to his nature : " - This ...
... truth , and not to be confined to any external mode , place or particular perfon ; and for this reafon , because God is a spirit ; and confe- quently a fpiritual worship is the fole rational , and moft agreeable to his nature : " - This ...
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