Quarter of a Millennium: The Library Company of Philadelphia, 1731-1981: A Selection of Books, Manuscripts, Maps, Prints, Drawings, & PaintingsThe Library Company of Phil |
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... law- makers did not grant the petition , but over the centuries " public - spirited In- habitants " and some non - Philadelphians , too , fulfilled the expectations of the colonial directors . The celebratory exhibition and its ...
... law- makers did not grant the petition , but over the centuries " public - spirited In- habitants " and some non - Philadelphians , too , fulfilled the expectations of the colonial directors . The celebratory exhibition and its ...
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... Law of Nature and Na- tions , Bailey's Dictionarium , Boerhaave's Chemistry , Gordon's Geography , Drake's Anatomy , Ellis ' Practical Farmer , Defoe's Complete English Tradesman , and much else . Plutarch's Lives lent a humanistic ...
... Law of Nature and Na- tions , Bailey's Dictionarium , Boerhaave's Chemistry , Gordon's Geography , Drake's Anatomy , Ellis ' Practical Farmer , Defoe's Complete English Tradesman , and much else . Plutarch's Lives lent a humanistic ...
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... Law and Poetry ; and That venerable Old Man in whofe Ear Fame Stands Whispering reprefents an ancient celebrated Penman . The Boy below , who is Studious , and Writing in his Book , notes Youthful Industry , and the Figure above is the ...
... Law and Poetry ; and That venerable Old Man in whofe Ear Fame Stands Whispering reprefents an ancient celebrated Penman . The Boy below , who is Studious , and Writing in his Book , notes Youthful Industry , and the Figure above is the ...
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... Law be enabled to punish them . If you , Gentlemen , do not interpofe , confider whether the ill Confequences that may arife from any Difturbances of the publick Peace , may not in part , lye at your Door ? Hawkins , in his Chapter of ...
... Law be enabled to punish them . If you , Gentlemen , do not interpofe , confider whether the ill Confequences that may arife from any Difturbances of the publick Peace , may not in part , lye at your Door ? Hawkins , in his Chapter of ...
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... laws . The amended document was taken to the proprietor who referred it with his approval to Governor Thomas . It ... Law of the sod Company shall be offens who have cowed the test , fret of hindion and at there many fer the Gover ...
... laws . The amended document was taken to the proprietor who referred it with his approval to Governor Thomas . It ... Law of the sod Company shall be offens who have cowed the test , fret of hindion and at there many fer the Gover ...
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Page 108 - Antiqvitie, shewing the auncient fayth in the Church of England touching the sacrament of the body and bloude of the Lord here publikely preached, and also receaued in the Saxons tyme, aboue 600.
Page 289 - Our debates possess'd me so fully of the subject, that I wrote and printed an anonymous pamphlet on it, entitled " The Nature and Necessity of a Paper Currency.
Page 1 - We afterwards obtained a charter, the company being increased to one hundred ; this was the mother of all the North American subscription libraries, now so numerous. It is become a great thing itself, and continually increasing. These libraries have improved the general conversation of the Americans, made the common tradesmen and farmers as intelligent as most gentlemen from other countries, and 55 perhaps have contributed in some degree to the stand so generally made throughout the colonies in defence...
Page 311 - The expediency of encouraging manufactures in the United States, which was not long since deemed very questionable, appears at this time to be pretty generally admitted. The embarrassments which have obstructed the progress of our external trade, have led to serious reflections on the necessity of enlarging the sphere of our domestic commerce.
Page 34 - A Summary View of the Rights of British America. Set forth in some resolutions intended for the inspection of the present delegates of the people of Virginia now in convention.
Page 193 - ... (1, vol. 2, p. 784). While Rush had arrived at the nucleus of his psychiatric theories by 1795, he continued to study the problem vigorously and to make many modifications, which appeared in a plethora of subsequent writings. Finally, in 1812, one year before his death, he published his Medical Inquiries And Observations Upon The Diseases of The Mind...
Page 130 - Ways and Means for the Inhabitants of Delaware to become Rich : Wherein the several growths and products of these Countries are demonstrated to be a sufficient Fund for a flourishing Trade. Humbly submitted to the Legislative Authority of three Colonies. . . . Printed and sold by S. Keimer, in Philadelphia, MDCCXXV.
Page 325 - I made answer, We were a people, who did not deale in any such commodities, neither did wee buy or sell one another, or any that had our owne shapes...
Page 131 - The Principal Corrections and Additions to the First Edition of Mr. Boswell's Life of Dr. Johnson.
Page 312 - Congress, for the encouragement and promotion of such manufactories as will tend to render the United States independent of other nations for essential, particularly for military supplies" (Journal of the House, I, 141-42).