The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Volumen21Historical Society of Pennsylvania., 1897 |
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... his brothers , in 1876 , although he was at no time a member of the firm . At the breaking out of the Civil War he joined a military com- pany in Philadelphia , and served as a member of Proceedings and Addresses . xi.
... his brothers , in 1876 , although he was at no time a member of the firm . At the breaking out of the Civil War he joined a military com- pany in Philadelphia , and served as a member of Proceedings and Addresses . xi.
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... accentuated by his own innate modesty and unconsciousness of his great worth and usefulness . His refusals were more than once based on the statement , 6 ' Nobody wanted to have his portrait , and even Proceedings and Addresses . xiii.
... accentuated by his own innate modesty and unconsciousness of his great worth and usefulness . His refusals were more than once based on the statement , 6 ' Nobody wanted to have his portrait , and even Proceedings and Addresses . xiii.
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... in abeyance until he had sifted everything direct or collateral to the main inquiry . Hence what he knew he knew thoroughly and firmly believed . He became acquainted with books outside and inside Proceedings and Addresses . XV.
... in abeyance until he had sifted everything direct or collateral to the main inquiry . Hence what he knew he knew thoroughly and firmly believed . He became acquainted with books outside and inside Proceedings and Addresses . XV.
Página xvii
... . He must be a student of catalogues and dealers ' lists , and have the patience to burrow in dust heaps and mouldy corners . He must 2 know values so that he may escape imposition , and Proceedings and Addresses . xvii.
... . He must be a student of catalogues and dealers ' lists , and have the patience to burrow in dust heaps and mouldy corners . He must 2 know values so that he may escape imposition , and Proceedings and Addresses . xvii.
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... our treasures grew from year to year . The donors felt that in hands like his they were not only safe but would be useful . The Tower Collection of Colonial Laws , the Dreer Collection of Proceedings and Addresses . xix.
... our treasures grew from year to year . The donors felt that in hands like his they were not only safe but would be useful . The Tower Collection of Colonial Laws , the Dreer Collection of Proceedings and Addresses . xix.
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Página xvi - For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Página 212 - And he is to observe and follow such orders and directions, from time to time, as he shall receive from me, or the future President of the United States of America, or the General or other superior Officers set over him, according to the rules and discipline of War. This Commission to continue in force during the pleasure of the President of the United States for the time being.
Página 35 - House a copy of the instructions to the minister of the United States who negotiated the treaty with the King of Great Britain, together with the correspondence and other documents relative to that treaty, excepting such of the said papers as any existing negotiation may render improper to be disclosed.
Página 171 - To enter into a non-importation, non-consumption, and non-exportation agreement or association, 2. To prepare an address to the people of Great Britain, and a memorial to the inhabitants of British America, and 3. To prepare a loyal address to his Majesty, agreeable to resolutions already entered into.
Página 100 - That all persons living in this province who confess and acknowledge the one almighty and eternal God to be the creator, upholder, and ruler of the world...
Página 272 - I consider such easy vehicles of knowledge, more happily calculated than any other, to preserve the liberty, stimulate the industry, and meliorate the morals of an enlightened and free people.
Página 43 - To this I may add, and very truly, that, until within the last year or two, I had no conception that parties would or even could go the length I have been witness to ; nor did I believe until lately, that it was within the bounds of probability, hardly within those of possibility, that, while I was using my utmost exertions to establish a national character of our...
Página 493 - A hundred men with each a pen, Or more upon my word, sir, It is most true would be too few, Their valor to record, sir.
Página 440 - , son of the Earl of Bute ; a gentleman truly worthy of being known to Johnson ; being, with all the advantages of high birth, learning, travel, and elegant manners, an exemplary parish priest in every respect.
Página xxv - That there is '' but this difference between the death of old men " and young men ; that old men go to death, and