The History of Pennsylvania: From Its Discovery by Europeans, to the Declaration of Independence in 1776

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Carey, Lea & Carey, 1829 - 628 σελίδες
 

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Σελίδα 6 - An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned." And also to the act, entitled " An Act supplementary to an Act, entitled, " An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the time therein mentioned," and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and...
Σελίδα 6 - District Clerk's Office. BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the ninth day of June, AD 1829, in the fifty-third year of the Independence of the United States of America, Alden Bradford, of the said District, has deposited in this Office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as author, in the words following, to wit : " History of Massachusetts, from the year 1790, to 1820.
Σελίδα 517 - We are reduced to the alternative of choosing an unconditional submission to the tyranny of irritated ministers, or resistance by force. The latter is our choice. We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery.
Σελίδα 501 - ... for contributing their proportion to the common defence (such proportion to be raised under the authority of the general court or general assembly of such province or colony, and disposable by Parliament), and shall engage to make provision also for the support of the civil government and the administration of justice...
Σελίδα 531 - DO, in the name and by the authority of the good people of these colonies, solemnly publish and declare, that these united colonies, are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states ; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown, and that all political connexion between them and the state of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved...
Σελίδα 522 - That it be recommended to the respective Assemblies and Conventions of the United Colonies, where no government sufficient to the exigencies of their affairs has been hitherto established, to adopt such Government as shall, in the opinion of the Representatives of the People, best conduce to the happiness and safety of their constituents in particular and America in general.
Σελίδα 528 - I, AB, profess faith in God the Father, and in Jesus Christ, His eternal Son, the true God, and in the Holy Spirit, co-equal with the Father, and the Son, one God blessed for ever : and do 1 Whitehead, Christian t'rogres1.
Σελίδα 242 - LAWS of this government, to the great end of all government, viz: to support power in reverence with the people, and to secure the people from the abuse of power; that they may be free by their just obedience, and the magistrates honourable for their just administration: for liberty without obedience is confusion, and obedience without liberty is slavery.
Σελίδα 70 - That all persons living in this province who confess and acknowledge the one almighty and eternal God to be the creator, upholder, and ruler of the world...
Σελίδα 78 - ... he should consider them as the same flesh and blood with the christians, and the same as if one man's body were to be divided into two parts.

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