Memoirs of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Band 1

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M'Carty and Davis, 1864
 

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Seite 148 - 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.
Seite 238 - I have, with good intentions, contributed towards the organization and administration of the government the best exertions of which a very fallible judgment was capable. Not unconscious, in the outset, of the inferiority of my qualifications, experience in my own eyes, perhaps still more in the eyes of others, has strengthened the motives to diffidence of myself...
Seite 468 - Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years ; few and evil have the days of the years of my life been...
Seite 381 - An Account of that .Part of Africa inhabited by the Negroes, 1762: a Caution and Warning to Great Britain and her Colonies, on the calamitous State of the enslaved Negroes...
Seite 193 - I have so obtained it and desire to keep it, that I may not be unworthy of his love ; but do that which may answer his kind providence and serve his Truth and people ; that an example may be set up to the nations. There may be room there, though not here, for such an holy experiment.
Seite 159 - South, unto that Part of the Bay of Delaware on the North, which lieth under the Fortieth Degree of North Latitude from the Equinoctial, where New England is terminated...
Seite 238 - In the discharge of this trust, I will only say, that I have, with good intentions, contributed toward the organization and administration of the government the best exertions of which a very fallible judgment was capable.
Seite 62 - Council, this day my country was confirmed to me under the great seal of England, with large powers and privileges, by the name of Pennsylvania, a name the King would give it, in honor of my father.
Seite 461 - For honourable age is not that which standeth in length of time, nor that is measured by number of years. But wisdom is the gray hair unto men, and an unspotted life is old age.
Seite 159 - Castle town, unto the three and fortieth degree of northern latitude, if the said river doth extend so far northward, but if the said river shall not extend so far northward, then by the said river so far as it doth extend; and from the head of the...

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