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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... possessed the talent of amassing wealth , there is a circumstance common to both , which seems unequivocally to indicate liberality and sin- cerity of heart . And yet it is a circumstance , which , probably , would have escaped me , had ...
... possessed the talent of amassing wealth , there is a circumstance common to both , which seems unequivocally to indicate liberality and sin- cerity of heart . And yet it is a circumstance , which , probably , would have escaped me , had ...
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... possessing a good natural understand- ing , with a strong addiction to philosophical specu- lations . His attachment to my father went beyond friendship : it reached to admiration and veneration . He thought him , as he has often told ...
... possessing a good natural understand- ing , with a strong addiction to philosophical specu- lations . His attachment to my father went beyond friendship : it reached to admiration and veneration . He thought him , as he has often told ...
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... possessed of a large and valuable landed property in the neighborhood of Bristol , consisting of an equal part of one thousand . acres , purchased in conjunction with Mr. M'Ilvaine in the year 1752 of William Whitaker of London , it was ...
... possessed of a large and valuable landed property in the neighborhood of Bristol , consisting of an equal part of one thousand . acres , purchased in conjunction with Mr. M'Ilvaine in the year 1752 of William Whitaker of London , it was ...
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... possessed the fa- culty of making himself beloved by the scholars , and of exciting their emulation and exertion , noth- ing would have been wanting in him to an entire qualification for his office . But unfortunately , he had no ...
... possessed the fa- culty of making himself beloved by the scholars , and of exciting their emulation and exertion , noth- ing would have been wanting in him to an entire qualification for his office . But unfortunately , he had no ...
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... possessing much of the soul of poetry . One of them is neither more nor less than a humble petition in hexamaters , and certainly a very curious specimen of pedantic mendicity . It is addressed to Thomas Penn , the proprietary of ...
... possessing much of the soul of poetry . One of them is neither more nor less than a humble petition in hexamaters , and certainly a very curious specimen of pedantic mendicity . It is addressed to Thomas Penn , the proprietary of ...
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