Memoirs of a Life, Chiefly Passed in Pennsylvania, Within the Last Sixty Years: With Occasional Remarks Upon the General Occurrences, Character and Spirit of that Eventful Period |
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... conduct oppressive , which was merely the effect of a paternal concern for my welfare . While upon the topic of those early adventures , by which we are initiated into the ways of the world , I may mention a circumstance of another na ...
... conduct oppressive , which was merely the effect of a paternal concern for my welfare . While upon the topic of those early adventures , by which we are initiated into the ways of the world , I may mention a circumstance of another na ...
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... conducted them into our settlements : But this rest- ed on mere suspicion , without a shadow of proof that ever I heard of . It was enough , however , to throw it out to obtain partisans to the opinion ; and , whether the Paxton men ...
... conducted them into our settlements : But this rest- ed on mere suspicion , without a shadow of proof that ever I heard of . It was enough , however , to throw it out to obtain partisans to the opinion ; and , whether the Paxton men ...
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... conduct of a pair of British officers , who , for want of something better to do , had plunged themselves into an excess of intemperance ; and in the plentitude of wine and hilarity , paraded the streets at all hours , A la clarté de ...
... conduct of a pair of British officers , who , for want of something better to do , had plunged themselves into an excess of intemperance ; and in the plentitude of wine and hilarity , paraded the streets at all hours , A la clarté de ...
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... conduct so extreme . ly disquieting and insulting to the peaceable citizens there assembled , that being no longer able to endure it , it was judged expedient to commit them ; and Mr. Chew happening to be there , undertook , in vir- tue ...
... conduct so extreme . ly disquieting and insulting to the peaceable citizens there assembled , that being no longer able to endure it , it was judged expedient to commit them ; and Mr. Chew happening to be there , undertook , in vir- tue ...
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... conduct of the British officers in America . Their studied contempt of the mohairs , by which term all those who were not in uniform were distinguished , was manifest on all occasions : And it is by no means improbable , that the ...
... conduct of the British officers in America . Their studied contempt of the mohairs , by which term all those who were not in uniform were distinguished , was manifest on all occasions : And it is by no means improbable , that the ...
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