The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Band 11Historical Society of Pennsylvania., 1887 |
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Seite 423 - 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...
Seite 163 - to enable his majesty to appoint commissioners, with sufficient powers to treat, consult, and agree upon the means of quieting the disorders now subsisting in certain of the colonies, plantations, and provinces of North America.
Seite 422 - Union, at a time and place to be agreed on, to take into consideration the trade of the United States, to examine the relative situations and trade of the said states, to consider how far a uniform system in their commercial regulations may be necessary to their common interest and their permanent harmony...
Seite 457 - If the member be called to order by a Senator for words spoken, the exceptionable words shall immediately be taken down in writing, that the President may be better enabled to judge of the matter.
Seite 65 - I came to be instructed by so great a master in the mystery of making of iron, wherein he had led the way, and was the Tubal Cain of Virginia. He corrected me a little there, by assuring me he was not only the first in this country, but the first in North America, who had erected a regular furnace.
Seite 132 - You have drawn me, dear Madame, or rather I have drawn myself, into an honest confession of a simple Fact. Misconstrue not my meaning ; doubt it not, nor expose it. The world has no business to know the object of my Love, declared in this manner to you, when I want to conceal it.
Seite 175 - Agreed upon by divers | Merchants | And others for the better | Improvement and Government | of | Trade | in that | Province188 | London, | Printed for Benjamin Clark in George-Yard in Lombard-street \ Printer to the Society...
Seite 217 - He was a delegate to the Pennsylvania convention to ratify the Federal Constitution in 1787, and in 1788 elected a member of the First Congress under that instrument which he so zealously supported against the protests of his constituents and the contrary action of his colleagues. "
Seite 420 - We have the honor to be with the greatest respect Sir your most obedient and most humble servants John Kelly Hugh Smith2 Carlile Pollock Honorable Peare Van Cortlandt Esqr.
Seite 418 - ... navigation of the river; but the right of fishing in the river shall be common to, and equally enjoyed by, the citizens of both States: Provided, that such common right be not exercised by the citizens of the one State to the hindrance or disturbance of the fisheries on the shores of the other...