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... acquaintance with Mrs. Bache in the following glowing style : " If there are ladies in Europe , " says he , " who need a model of attach- ment to domestic duties and love to their country , 22 EMINENT PHILADELPHIANS . Sarah Bache,
... acquaintance with Mrs. Bache in the following glowing style : " If there are ladies in Europe , " says he , " who need a model of attach- ment to domestic duties and love to their country , 22 EMINENT PHILADELPHIANS . Sarah Bache,
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... duties , dressing the wounds of the soldiers , and administering to them medicines , cordials , and such other things as were calculated to mitigate their sufferings . Thus did she manifest her love for her country . Thus did she become ...
... duties , dressing the wounds of the soldiers , and administering to them medicines , cordials , and such other things as were calculated to mitigate their sufferings . Thus did she manifest her love for her country . Thus did she become ...
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... duties he was , at all times , most attentive and industrious , carefully examining and promoting every means which contributed to preserve or extend the facilities of the port as a resort of commerce . ' It may not , however , be ...
... duties he was , at all times , most attentive and industrious , carefully examining and promoting every means which contributed to preserve or extend the facilities of the port as a resort of commerce . ' It may not , however , be ...
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... duties , as a Manager and Vice - President , he superintended its finances with particular ability ; and before death terminated his philanthropic duty , he had the satisfaction to see its revenues so largely increased as to diffuse its ...
... duties , as a Manager and Vice - President , he superintended its finances with particular ability ; and before death terminated his philanthropic duty , he had the satisfaction to see its revenues so largely increased as to diffuse its ...
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... duties of rector of the church in that place . Here he remained successfully occupied in the labors of his profession for more than three years , when he was induced , from declining health , to seek a more northern residence . On his ...
... duties of rector of the church in that place . Here he remained successfully occupied in the labors of his profession for more than three years , when he was induced , from declining health , to seek a more northern residence . On his ...
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Page 376 - Seest thou a man diligent in his calling, he shall stand before kings, he shall not stand before mean men...
Page 331 - HAPPY day that fixed my choice On thee, my Saviour and my God ! Well may this glowing heart rejoice, And tell its raptures all abroad.
Page 258 - States, to devise such further provisions as shall appear to them necessary to render the constitution of the federal government adequate to the exigencies of the union...
Page 455 - In other countries the people, more simple and of a less mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance. Here they anticipate the evil and judge of the pressure of the grievance by the badness of the principle. They augur misgovernment at a distance, and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze.
Page 512 - When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me: 12 Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.
Page 736 - As for nobility in particular persons, it is a reverend thing to see an ancient castle or building not in decay, or to see a fair timber tree sound and perfect. How much more to behold an ancient noble family, which hath stood against the waves and weathers of time.
Page 903 - the Sam. Adams of Philadelphia, the life of the cause of liberty.
Page 413 - Those scholars, who shall merit it, shall remain in the college until they shall respectively arrive at between fourteen and eighteen years of age ; they shall then be bound out by the Mayor, Aldermen and Citizens of Philadelphia, or under their direction, to suitable occupations, as those of agriculture, navigation, arts, mechanical trades, and manufactures...
Page 46 - DO not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you.
Page 694 - Four Dissertations on the RECIPROCAL ADVANTAGES of a PERPETUAL UNION BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND HER AMERICAN COLONIES.