Cyclopaedia of American literature, by E. A. and G. L. Duyckinck, Volume 1; Volume 62 |
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... Philadelphia , of the Historical Society , of the Society , Mercantile , and Astor Libraries of New York . We never left one of these institutions without a new sense of the magnitude of the subject before us . In this connexion , we ...
... Philadelphia , of the Historical Society , of the Society , Mercantile , and Astor Libraries of New York . We never left one of these institutions without a new sense of the magnitude of the subject before us . In this connexion , we ...
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... Philadelphia ; to whom commonly every New- Year's day , they present verses of this kind . SAMUEL KEIMER An elegy on the much lamented DEATH of the INGE- NIOUS AND WELL - BELOVED AQUILA ROSE . The sorrowful lamentation of Samuel Keimer ...
... Philadelphia ; to whom commonly every New- Year's day , they present verses of this kind . SAMUEL KEIMER An elegy on the much lamented DEATH of the INGE- NIOUS AND WELL - BELOVED AQUILA ROSE . The sorrowful lamentation of Samuel Keimer ...
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... Philadelphia Library 178 Portrait and Autograph of Joel Autograph of H. Clay 654 Autograph of George Washington 179 Barlow 892 F. S. Key 663 Portrait and Autograph of John Portrait and Autograph of J. Mar- B. Tucker 665 Dickinson 181 ...
... Philadelphia Library 178 Portrait and Autograph of Joel Autograph of H. Clay 654 Autograph of George Washington 179 Barlow 892 F. S. Key 663 Portrait and Autograph of John Portrait and Autograph of J. Mar- B. Tucker 665 Dickinson 181 ...
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... Philadelphia in 1689. In 1691 , after having made a propagandist tour in New England , he left the sect with a few followers , the seceders calling themselves Christian Quakers . He not long after took orders in the Church of England ...
... Philadelphia in 1689. In 1691 , after having made a propagandist tour in New England , he left the sect with a few followers , the seceders calling themselves Christian Quakers . He not long after took orders in the Church of England ...
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... Philadelphia rivos ; Inter quos duo sunt millia longa viĉ . Delawar hic major , Sculkil minor ille vocatur ; Indis et Suevis notus uterque diu . Edibus ornatur multis urbs limite longo , Quĉ parva emicuit tempore magna brevi . Hic ...
... Philadelphia rivos ; Inter quos duo sunt millia longa viĉ . Delawar hic major , Sculkil minor ille vocatur ; Indis et Suevis notus uterque diu . Edibus ornatur multis urbs limite longo , Quĉ parva emicuit tempore magna brevi . Hic ...
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Page 202 - These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot, will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country, but he that stands it now deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
Page 189 - Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge this thy so great a people ? And the speech pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing.
Page 185 - The second day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated, as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward, forevermore.
Page 355 - Yet there happened in my time one noble speaker, who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language (where he could spare or pass by a jest) was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough, or look aside from him, without loss. He commanded where he spoke; and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion.
Page 169 - In happy climes, where from the genial sun And virgin earth such scenes ensue, The force of Art by Nature seems outdone, And fancied beauties by the true : In happy climes, the seat of innocence...
Page 245 - This he had acquired by conversation with the world, for his education was merely reading, writing, and common arithmetic, to which he added surveying at a later day. His time was employed in action chiefly, reading little, and that only in agriculture and English history.
Page 109 - That not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure and subtle, but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom...
Page 112 - When I was a child of seven years old my friends, on a holiday, filled my pocket with coppers. I went directly to a shop where they sold toys for children ; and, being charmed with the sound of a whistle, that I met by the way in the hands of another boy, I voluntarily offered and gave all my money for one.
Page 389 - Come, dear bowl, Glide o'er my palate, and inspire my soul. The milk beside thee, smoking from the kine, Its substance mingled, married in with thine, Shall cool and temper thy superior heat, And save the pains of blowing while I eat.
Page 105 - 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.