Outlines of the Literary History of Colonial PennsylvaniaPress of the New Era Printing Company, 1906 - 177 pages |
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... things than composing painful elegies , or preaching the terrors of a future damnation , and we must expect different results from these patient men who waited always for the leading of the Spirit . Perhaps the Quakers were as laborious ...
... things than composing painful elegies , or preaching the terrors of a future damnation , and we must expect different results from these patient men who waited always for the leading of the Spirit . Perhaps the Quakers were as laborious ...
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... thing of evil consequence , drawing away the mind from heaven and heavenly things.10 He argued that music and dancing had the same tendency and should be re- frained from . Although the colonists started thus strictly , they made ...
... thing of evil consequence , drawing away the mind from heaven and heavenly things.10 He argued that music and dancing had the same tendency and should be re- frained from . Although the colonists started thus strictly , they made ...
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... Things are known , enjoyed and like to be Discovered in said Province , by Richard Frame , 1692.20 The poet described the attractions of the land and the progress of the people ; and in the latter connec- tion , mentioned , as a proof ...
... Things are known , enjoyed and like to be Discovered in said Province , by Richard Frame , 1692.20 The poet described the attractions of the land and the progress of the people ; and in the latter connec- tion , mentioned , as a proof ...
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... things nearest the Quaker heart , e . g . , the attacks on the follies and abuses of society . 66 Francis Quarles ( 1592-1644 ) published among other things a collection of Divine Poems in 1630 and Divine Fancies , in 1632. This verse ...
... things nearest the Quaker heart , e . g . , the attacks on the follies and abuses of society . 66 Francis Quarles ( 1592-1644 ) published among other things a collection of Divine Poems in 1630 and Divine Fancies , in 1632. This verse ...
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... things he thought it well for them to know , -proverbs and long strings of verses in German , Latin or English , alternating with literary reviews , political discussions and moral or æsthetic expositions . He describes his purpose as ...
... things he thought it well for them to know , -proverbs and long strings of verses in German , Latin or English , alternating with literary reviews , political discussions and moral or æsthetic expositions . He describes his purpose as ...
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Page 105 - ... Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered ; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly : it is dearness only that gives every thing its value.
Page 106 - I have as little superstition in me as any man living, but my secret opinion has ever been, and still is, that GOD Almighty will not give up a people to military destruction, or leave them unsupportedly to perish, who have so earnestly and so repeatedly sought to avoid the calamities of war, by every decent method which wisdom could invent.
Page 55 - Thus the old gentleman ended his harangue. The people heard it and approved the doctrine, and immediately practised the contrary, just as if it had been a common sermon ; for the auction opened, and they began to buy extravagantly.
Page 105 - THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
Page 55 - I will give it you in short ; 'for a word to the wise is enough,' as poor Richard says." They joined in desiring him to speak his mind, and gathering round him, he proceeded as follows : — " Friends," says he, " the taxes are indeed very heavy ; and, if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them ; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness...
Page 47 - The institution soon manifested its utility, was imitated by other towns, and in other provinces. The libraries were augmented by donations ; reading became fashionable; and our people, having no public amusements to divert their attention from study, became better acquainted with books, and in a few years were observed by strangers to be better instructed and more intelligent than people of the same rank generally are in other countries.
Page 55 - Ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them ; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our Idleness, three times as much by our Pride, and four times as much by our Folly; and from these Taxes the Commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing an Abatement. However let us hearken to good Advice, and something may be done for us; God helps them that help themselves, as Poor Richard says, in his Almanack of 1733.
Page 97 - Let these truths be indelibly impressed on our minds — that we cannot be happy without being free — that we cannot be free without being secure in our property — that we cannot be secure in our property, if, without our consent others may, as by right, take it away...
Page 45 - Godfrey, a self-taught mathematician, great in his way, and afterward inventor of what is now called Hadley's Quadrant. But he knew little out of his way, and was not a pleasing companion; as, like most great mathematicians I have met with, he expected universal precision in everything said, or was for ever denying or distinguishing upon trifles, to the disturbance of all conversation.
Page 62 - Britain, at the expense of three millions, has killed one hundred and fifty Yankees this campaign, which is twenty thousand pounds a head ; and at Bunker's Hill she gained a mile of ground, half of which she lost again by our taking post on Ploughed Hill. During the same time sixty * thousand children have been born in America.