The Register of Pennsylvania: Devoted to the Preservation of Facts and Documents and Every Other Kind of Useful Information Respecting the State of Pennsylvania, Volume 3Samuel Hazard W.F. Geddes, 1829 - Pennsylvania |
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... Institution report Deaths and Diseases Phil . for 1828 and several years Delaware River Shad fisheries value of Piers in Cost of Breakwater frozen over 148 Governor , appointments by 148,286 , 288,320,336,400 135 Graces The , given to ...
... Institution report Deaths and Diseases Phil . for 1828 and several years Delaware River Shad fisheries value of Piers in Cost of Breakwater frozen over 148 Governor , appointments by 148,286 , 288,320,336,400 135 Graces The , given to ...
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... institution 25 Revolutionary letters and papers 26 , 27 , 34 to 38 , 175 180 , 200 , 245 , 295 to 298,305 to 308 340 to 341 , 356 to 360 , 387 Roberts N. S. report on a portage across the Al- legheny mountains 277 , 290 43 engineers ...
... institution 25 Revolutionary letters and papers 26 , 27 , 34 to 38 , 175 180 , 200 , 245 , 295 to 298,305 to 308 340 to 341 , 356 to 360 , 387 Roberts N. S. report on a portage across the Al- legheny mountains 277 , 290 43 engineers ...
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... institution 25 Roberts N. S. report on a portage across the Al- legheny mountains 277 , 290 43 Moncure Robinson on canal and railway routes between the Delaware & Susq . of comm'e of Congress on auction system on the banks , Auditor ...
... institution 25 Roberts N. S. report on a portage across the Al- legheny mountains 277 , 290 43 Moncure Robinson on canal and railway routes between the Delaware & Susq . of comm'e of Congress on auction system on the banks , Auditor ...
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... institution , we sincerely hope it will not suffer it to lan - adapted to raising of stock . The numerous droves of guish for want of further aid — and this I fear must be the fine horses and cattle taken out of it every season , is ...
... institution , we sincerely hope it will not suffer it to lan - adapted to raising of stock . The numerous droves of guish for want of further aid — and this I fear must be the fine horses and cattle taken out of it every season , is ...
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... institutions , but were in- troduced by private and voluntary associations for the sake of promoting health . The Fellenburg school may be considered a complete system , combining with study all the useful arts and forming an ...
... institutions , but were in- troduced by private and voluntary associations for the sake of promoting health . The Fellenburg school may be considered a complete system , combining with study all the useful arts and forming an ...
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Page 166 - The recent demonstration of public sentiment inscribes, on the list of executive duties, in characters too legible to be overlooked, the task of reform; which will require, particularly, the correction of those abuses that have brought the patronage of the Federal Government into conflict with the freedom of elections, and the counteraction of those causes which have disturbed the rightful course of appointment, and have placed, or continued power in, unfaithful or incompetent hands.
Page 166 - In administering the laws of Congress I shall keep steadily in view the limitations as well as the extent of the Executive power, trusting thereby to discharge the functions of my office without transcending its authority.
Page 166 - In such measures as I may be called on to pursue, in regard to the rights of the separate states, I hope to be animated by a proper respect for those sovereign members of our Union; taking care not to confound the powers they have reserved to themselves with those they have granted to the confederacy.
Page 166 - Partial injuries and occasional mortifications we may be subjected to ; but a million of armed freemen, possessed of the means of war, can never be conquered by a foreign foe. To any just system, therefore, calculated to strengthen this natural safeguard of the country, I shall cheerfully lend all the aid in my power.
Page 166 - As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will ; as long as it secures to us the rights of person and property, liberty of conscience, and of the press, it will be worth defending ; and so long as it is worth defending, a patriotic militia will cover it with an impenetrable agis.
Page 247 - British constitution, was the limitation of the king's prerogative by bounds so certain and notorious that it is impossible he should ever exceed them, without the consent of the people on the one hand ; or without, on the other, a violation of that original contract which, in all states impliedly, and in ours most expressly, subsists between the prince and the subject.
Page 231 - ... doing unto others as we would have others do unto us." A moderate degree of attention to this rule, would annihilate a great portion of the distress of hundreds of suffering females. One important means of mitigating the distress of this class, would be, to increase as far as possible the diversity of female employments, by which that competition which has produced the pernicious reduction of wages, would he diminished.
Page 166 - With regard to a proper selection of the subjects of impost, with a view to revenue, it would seem to me that the spirit of equity, caution, and compromise, in which the constitution was formed, requires that the great interests of agriculture, commerce and manufactures, should be equally...
Page 313 - He has nothing for it but to abdicate, and run from an evil which he can neither prevent nor mollify. The husband gone, the ceremony begins. The walls are...
Page 25 - Yes ! where is he, the Champion and the Child Of all that's great or little, wise or wild ? Whose game was empires and whose stakes were thrones ? Whose table, earth — whose dice were human bones ? Behold the grand result in yon lone isle, And, as thy nature urges, weep or smile.