Hazard's Register of Pennsylvania: Devoted to the Preservation of Facts and Documents, and Every Kind of Useful Information Respecting the State of Pennsylvania, Volume 1Samuel Hazard W.F. Geddes, 1828 - Pennsylvania |
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... Canal , North Branch Pennsylvania Schuylkill G. W. Smith's notes on 335 Carbon , Mount , account of coal works at 416 Carre , Sir Robert's commission 287 Carroll , Govr's . correspondence with Genl . 93 Cave , Laurel Hill , account of ...
... Canal , North Branch Pennsylvania Schuylkill G. W. Smith's notes on 335 Carbon , Mount , account of coal works at 416 Carre , Sir Robert's commission 287 Carroll , Govr's . correspondence with Genl . 93 Cave , Laurel Hill , account of ...
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... canal 184 208 Grandom , John , legacies by changes in 257 Greeks , collections for the depth of at wharves 258 Greensburg , flood at width of 286 H quadrant Government of the state , expenses of Graff , Frederick , compliment to Grain ...
... canal 184 208 Grandom , John , legacies by changes in 257 Greeks , collections for the depth of at wharves 258 Greensburg , flood at width of 286 H quadrant Government of the state , expenses of Graff , Frederick , compliment to Grain ...
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... Canal Lottery on criminal code 111 house yard 416 145 Mount Carbon , coal mines account of 313 penitentiary Lehigh navigation co . report Pennsa . Canal and Rail Road bill report of commissioners for building acting manager's report 199 ...
... Canal Lottery on criminal code 111 house yard 416 145 Mount Carbon , coal mines account of 313 penitentiary Lehigh navigation co . report Pennsa . Canal and Rail Road bill report of commissioners for building acting manager's report 199 ...
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... canal commissioners report auditor's report medical history of instructions of do to gov . Blackwell ib . letter from governor to lords ' commis- sioners for trade , & c . indian treaty speeches land office fees 38 apple trees , natives ...
... canal commissioners report auditor's report medical history of instructions of do to gov . Blackwell ib . letter from governor to lords ' commis- sioners for trade , & c . indian treaty speeches land office fees 38 apple trees , natives ...
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... canal 391 446 ib . ib . 417 Revolutionary , anecdote of Lydia Darrach Gondolas attack British man of war attack on Fort Mifflin 48 239 347 officers , law for relief of 379 capture of Genl . Monk , by Hyder Ally 393 ib . S respecting the ...
... canal 391 446 ib . ib . 417 Revolutionary , anecdote of Lydia Darrach Gondolas attack British man of war attack on Fort Mifflin 48 239 347 officers , law for relief of 379 capture of Genl . Monk , by Hyder Ally 393 ib . S respecting the ...
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Page 337 - I choose to solve the controversy with this small distinction, and it belongs to all three : any government is free to the people under it (whatever be the frame) where the laws rule and the people are a party to those laws, and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or confusion.
Page 376 - I have great love and regard towards you, and I desire to win and gain your love and friendship by a kind, just and peaceable life...
Page 337 - Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them ; and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them they are ruined too. Wherefore governments rather depend upon men, than men upon governments. Let men be good, and the government cannot be bad; if it be ill, they will cure it. But if men be bad, let the government be never so good, they will endeavour to warp and spoil it to their turn.
Page 359 - 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...
Page 338 - LAWS of this government, to the great end of all government, viz: to support power in reverence with the people, and to secure the people from the abuse of power; that they may be free by their Just obedience, and the magistrates honourable for their Just administration: for liberty without obedience is confusion, and obedience without liberty is slavery.
Page 16 - That all men have a natural and indefeasible right to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of their own consciences...
Page 337 - For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good. and thou shalt have praise of the same: for he is a minister of God to thee for good.
Page 376 - God hath been pleased to make me concerned in your part of the world, and the King of the country where I live hath given me a great province therein, but I desire to enjoy it with your love and consent, that we may always live together as neighbours and friends, else what would the great God do to us, who hath made us not to devour and destroy one another, but to live soberly and kindly together in the world...
Page 378 - Selection" from that invaluable work. It was well received, and has been approved and recommended by several very respectable public critics. He wrote also a little piece, published in 1817, " On the Duty and Benefit of a daily Perusal of the Holy Scriptures.
Page 326 - A supplement to the act, entitled an act for the relief and employment of the poor of the city of Philadelphia, the district of Southwark, and the townships, of the Northern Liberties, and Penn.