The History of Pennsylvania: In North America, from the Original Institution and Settlement of that Province, Under the First Proprietor and Governor, William Penn, in 1681, Till After the Year 1742; with an Introduction, Respecting, the Life of W. Penn, Prior to the Grant of the Province, and the Religious Society of the People Called Quakers;--with the First Rise of the Neighbouring Colonies, More Particularly of West-New-Jersey, and the Settlement of the Dutch and Swedes on Delaware. To which is Added, a Brief Description of the Said Province, and of the General State, in which it Flourished, Principally Between the Years 1760 and 1770 ...Zachariah Poulson, junior, number eighty, Chesnut-street., 1797 |
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... laws of God . They lay the ax to the root of human fociety ; and are the common enemies of mankind . It was to prevent these enormities , that 1 that government was instituted ; and shall govern- Duty 8 Preface dedicatory .
... laws of God . They lay the ax to the root of human fociety ; and are the common enemies of mankind . It was to prevent these enormities , that 1 that government was instituted ; and shall govern- Duty 8 Preface dedicatory .
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... laws , could not oppress the poor ; Both parties I fecur'd from lawless might ; So none prevail'd upon another's right . " But ambition is rooted in human nature , and ways of am- demands restraint ; it affumes all manner of appear ...
... laws , could not oppress the poor ; Both parties I fecur'd from lawless might ; So none prevail'd upon another's right . " But ambition is rooted in human nature , and ways of am- demands restraint ; it affumes all manner of appear ...
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... laws refrained not only refpecting the government's dues , but in tain things every other cafe , where their confciences , in refer- accounted ence to things of a religious nature , were not affect- lawful , as ed thereby ; in which ...
... laws refrained not only refpecting the government's dues , but in tain things every other cafe , where their confciences , in refer- accounted ence to things of a religious nature , were not affect- lawful , as ed thereby ; in which ...
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... laws , as either defignedly , or otherwife , affected their con- fciences , and were used to force , or compel , con- formity , in religious matters ; which they always diftinguished from civil affairs , fo abundantly de- monftrate the ...
... laws , as either defignedly , or otherwife , affected their con- fciences , and were used to force , or compel , con- formity , in religious matters ; which they always diftinguished from civil affairs , fo abundantly de- monftrate the ...
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... law one with ano- ther was a fingular inftance of their high sense , and steady and uniform practice of chriftian love and charity : - " To go to law one with another , ( faith one of their writers ) as it was among the primitive ...
... law one with ano- ther was a fingular inftance of their high sense , and steady and uniform practice of chriftian love and charity : - " To go to law one with another , ( faith one of their writers ) as it was among the primitive ...
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Seite 172 - The said land to extend westward five degrees in longitude, to be computed from the said eastern bounds, and the said lands to be bounded on the north by the beginning of the three and fortieth degree of northern latitude...
Seite 195 - THERE is a great God and power that hath made the world and all things therein, to whom you and I and all people owe their being and well-being ; and to whom you and I must one day give an account for all that we do in the world. This great God hath written his law in...
Seite 8 - Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground ; Another race the following spring supplies, They fall successive, and successive rise: So generations in their course decay, So flourish these, when those are past away.
Seite 10 - 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.
Seite 125 - Island, and bounded on the east part by the main sea and part by Hudson's River, and hath upon the west Delaware Bay or River, and extendeth southward to the main ocean as far as Cape May, at the mouth of Delaware Bay, and to the northward as far as the northernmost branch of the said Bay or River of Delaware, which is forty-one degrees and forty minutes of latitude...
Seite 174 - Discretion, by and with the Advice, Assent, and Approbation of the Freemen of the said Country, or the greater Part of them, or of their Delegates or Deputies...
Seite 262 - Sculkil, whereby it hath two fronts upon the water, each a mile, and two from river to river.
Seite 258 - ... to love the Christians, and particularly live in peace with me and the people under my government. That many governors had been in the river, but that no governor had come himself to live and stay here before ; and having now such an one that had treated them well, they should never do him or his any wrong.
Seite 183 - Pennsylvania, for the time being, and to make war, and to pursue the enemies and robbers aforesaid, as well by sea as by land, even without the limits of the said province, and, by God's assistance, to vanquish and take them ; and being taken, to put them to death, by the law of war...
Seite 121 - York, his heirs and assigns, all that part of the main land of New England, beginning at a certain place called or known by the name of St. Croix, next adjoining to New Scotland in America...