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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... locks , they can pass 1,900,000 tons annually , and may be formed of what has been done in relation to with single locks one half that quantity . Now let us locks , dams , aqueducts , tunnelling , embankments , tow- suppose that the locks ...
... locks , they can pass 1,900,000 tons annually , and may be formed of what has been done in relation to with single locks one half that quantity . Now let us locks , dams , aqueducts , tunnelling , embankments , tow- suppose that the locks ...
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... locks opposite Pittsburg , to the salt works on the Kis- kiminetas , in time for navigation the ensuing spring . But the quantity of rain , and the constant high state of the waters during the Fall , have frustrated their hopes . It is ...
... locks opposite Pittsburg , to the salt works on the Kis- kiminetas , in time for navigation the ensuing spring . But the quantity of rain , and the constant high state of the waters during the Fall , have frustrated their hopes . It is ...
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... locks , bridges or culverts , all of which have been postponed to another season . No payments were made on account of work till the last week , too late to be in - respectfully submitted to the wisdom of the legislature . cluded in the ...
... locks , bridges or culverts , all of which have been postponed to another season . No payments were made on account of work till the last week , too late to be in - respectfully submitted to the wisdom of the legislature . cluded in the ...
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... locks . The Board are therefore compelled to say , in the most explicit manner , that a navigable commuica- tion between the eastern and western waters of Penn- sylvania , sufficiently permanent to justify the expense , is wholly ...
... locks . The Board are therefore compelled to say , in the most explicit manner , that a navigable commuica- tion between the eastern and western waters of Penn- sylvania , sufficiently permanent to justify the expense , is wholly ...
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... locks to be used , at 835,320 dollars for 47 miles , or 17,620 dollars per mile . With wooden locks it would amount to 569,894 dollars or 11,000 dollars per mile . Combining these results with those ascertained by the surveys of the ...
... locks to be used , at 835,320 dollars for 47 miles , or 17,620 dollars per mile . With wooden locks it would amount to 569,894 dollars or 11,000 dollars per mile . Combining these results with those ascertained by the surveys of 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.