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... fame materials , were planted be- fore this extraordinary edifice . The cannon were three pounders , they were charged with gun powder , and fired off ; the ball of one of them pierced an oak plank at fixty paces diftance and two inches ...
... fame materials , were planted be- fore this extraordinary edifice . The cannon were three pounders , they were charged with gun powder , and fired off ; the ball of one of them pierced an oak plank at fixty paces diftance and two inches ...
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... fame time to be guided and improved by the light of the understanding . I must be allow ed to add , that as a found head , fo likewife a good heart , is a very ma terial requifite to just taste . The mo ral beauties are not only in them ...
... fame time to be guided and improved by the light of the understanding . I must be allow ed to add , that as a found head , fo likewife a good heart , is a very ma terial requifite to just taste . The mo ral beauties are not only in them ...
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... fame efforts . This is a sketch , but a very feeble and imperfect sketch , of the fentiments of my mafters , whofe fincerity furpasses expreffion , but which is however ma- nifefted in the letters which I fhall have the honor to deliver ...
... fame efforts . This is a sketch , but a very feeble and imperfect sketch , of the fentiments of my mafters , whofe fincerity furpasses expreffion , but which is however ma- nifefted in the letters which I fhall have the honor to deliver ...
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... fame inviolable regard for liberty , and the fame wifdom , juftice and magnanimity , which led their fore- fathers to glory , was handed down unimpaired to their pofterity ; and cur fatisfaction was great , in accom . plifhing with them ...
... fame inviolable regard for liberty , and the fame wifdom , juftice and magnanimity , which led their fore- fathers to glory , was handed down unimpaired to their pofterity ; and cur fatisfaction was great , in accom . plifhing with them ...
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... fame arts by which philofophers were accuftomed to make artificial ice at pleasure . We fhall firf give the common method of making ice , and then the new art of freezing quick filver . It was faid in the beginning of this chapter ...
... fame arts by which philofophers were accuftomed to make artificial ice at pleasure . We fhall firf give the common method of making ice , and then the new art of freezing quick filver . It was faid in the beginning of this chapter ...
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Page 510 - And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment ; that ye may approve things that are excellent ; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ ; being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.
Page 482 - ... the same as may be requisite to defray the expenses of the said office; appointing all officers of the land forces in the service of the United States, excepting regimental officers; appointing all the officers of the naval forces, and commissioning all officers whatever in the service of the United States; making rules for the government and regulation of the said land and naval forces, and directing their operations.
Page 80 - Ocean: east by a line to be drawn along the middle of the River St. Croix from its mouth in the Bay of Fundy to its source, and from its source directly north to the aforesaid highlands, which divide the rivers that fall into the Atlantic Ocean, from those which fall into the River St. Lawrence...
Page 548 - If a white man in travelling through our country, enters one of our cabins, we all treat him as I treat you; we dry him if he is wet, we warm him if he is cold, and give him meat and drink, that he may allay his...
Page 81 - In case it should so happen, that any place or territory, belonging to Great Britain or to the United States, should...
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Page 518 - We are convinced therefore that you mean to do us good by your Proposal, and we thank you heartily. But you who are wise must know, that different Nations have different Conceptions of things; and you will therefore not take it amiss, if our Ideas of this Kind of Education happen...
Page 81 - That there shall be no future confiscations made, nor any prosecutions commenced against any person or persons, for or by reason of the part which he or they may have taken in the present War ; and that no person shall on that account suffer any future loss or damage either in his person, liberty, or property...