Hazard's Register of Pennsylvania, Volume 161836 |
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... produce sent East from 336 Pottsville 194 Poor Tax , report of Directors 251 Portsmouth , canal trade at 61 Potatoes , Foxite , raised 320 Pottstown described Pottsville , early frost at 16 287 on Fire companies of Philadelphia to ...
... produce sent East from 336 Pottsville 194 Poor Tax , report of Directors 251 Portsmouth , canal trade at 61 Potatoes , Foxite , raised 320 Pottstown described Pottsville , early frost at 16 287 on Fire companies of Philadelphia to ...
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... produce something useful . This kind of argument had the de- sired effect , and a favorable report was made , May 21 , I do certify , that some time about the year 1781 , 1787 , granting to me , my heirs and assigns , for 14 years ago ...
... produce something useful . This kind of argument had the de- sired effect , and a favorable report was made , May 21 , I do certify , that some time about the year 1781 , 1787 , granting to me , my heirs and assigns , for 14 years ago ...
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... produce a more simple , at least ; for when I drove two saws the consumption cheap and powerful steam engine than any in use . — was 8 bushels coal in 12 hours , but when 12 saws were These gentlemen were the only persons who had such ...
... produce a more simple , at least ; for when I drove two saws the consumption cheap and powerful steam engine than any in use . — was 8 bushels coal in 12 hours , but when 12 saws were These gentlemen were the only persons who had such ...
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... produce such novel and strange effects ; and this I will endeavor to do in as few words as I can , by shewing the extent to which the principles are applied already . To make steam as irresistible , or powerful as gun . powder , we have ...
... produce such novel and strange effects ; and this I will endeavor to do in as few words as I can , by shewing the extent to which the principles are applied already . To make steam as irresistible , or powerful as gun . powder , we have ...
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... produce , merchandise and passengers , on carriages to be drawn by steam engines on rail way or smooth roads , it may be proper to submit for their consideration different plans . Mr. John Ellicott , ( of John , ) has suggested that ...
... produce , merchandise and passengers , on carriages to be drawn by steam engines on rail way or smooth roads , it may be proper to submit for their consideration different plans . Mr. John Ellicott , ( of John , ) has suggested that ...
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Page 294 - Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. 'But not the praise...
Page 168 - And, when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And sleep in dull cold marble, where no mention Of me more must be heard of, say, I taught thee; Say, Wolsey, that once trod the ways of glory, And sounded all the depths and shoals of honour...
Page 131 - In order to come within the provision of the constitution of the United States which declares that no state shall pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts...
Page 268 - Man that is born of a woman Is of few days, and full of trouble. He cometh forth like a flower and is cut down; He fleeth as a shadow and continueth not.
Page 289 - The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.
Page 301 - ... comes home in its effects to every man's fire-side; — it passes on his property, his reputation, his life, his all. Is it not to the last degree important, that he should be rendered perfectly and completely independent, with nothing to control him but God and his conscience?
Page 132 - that the laws of the several States, except where the Constitution, treaties, or statutes of the United States shall otherwise require or provide, shall be regarded as rules of decision in trials at common law in the courts of the United States, in cases where they apply.
Page 292 - I do not conceive we can exist long as a nation without having lodged somewhere a power, which will pervade the whole Union in as energetic a manner as the authority of the State governments extends over the several States.
Page 30 - Resolved, that the clerk of the corporation be requested to transmit a copy of these resolutions to the family of the deceased.
Page 290 - ... our lordly masters in Great Britain will be satisfied with nothing less than the deprivation of American freedom, it seems highly necessary that something should be done to avert the stroke, and maintain the liberty, which we have derived from our ancestors.