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... Stephen Girard , John Letch- worth , John Haworth , Thomas Savery , Henry Deforest , Jonathan Dickinson Sergeant , Caleb Lowndes , Peter Helm , James Kerr , James Swaine , Jacob Witman , John Connelly , Daniel Offley , Thomas Wistar ...
... Stephen Girard , John Letch- worth , John Haworth , Thomas Savery , Henry Deforest , Jonathan Dickinson Sergeant , Caleb Lowndes , Peter Helm , James Kerr , James Swaine , Jacob Witman , John Connelly , Daniel Offley , Thomas Wistar ...
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... Stephen Girard and John Mason , offered themselves to assist the guardians of the poor . At this meeting , a committee was appointed to confer with the physicians who had the care of Bushhill , and make report of the state of that ...
... Stephen Girard and John Mason , offered themselves to assist the guardians of the poor . At this meeting , a committee was appointed to confer with the physicians who had the care of Bushhill , and make report of the state of that ...
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... STEPHEN GIRARD THOMAS WISTAR ISRAEL ISRAEL Present , JOSEPH INSKEEP HENRY DEFOREST ANDREW ADGATE JOHN HAWKINS CALEB LOWNES THOMAS I. PETERS And several of the Overseers of the Poor . The Committee having made inquiry into the situation ...
... STEPHEN GIRARD THOMAS WISTAR ISRAEL ISRAEL Present , JOSEPH INSKEEP HENRY DEFOREST ANDREW ADGATE JOHN HAWKINS CALEB LOWNES THOMAS I. PETERS And several of the Overseers of the Poor . The Committee having made inquiry into the situation ...
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... STEPHEN GIRARD JOSEPH INSKEEP Present , ISRAEL ISRAEL HENRY DEFOREST THOMAS HARRISON CALEB LOWNES And several of the Overseers of the Poor . The Committee appointed to confer with the physicians who have the charge of the sick at ...
... STEPHEN GIRARD JOSEPH INSKEEP Present , ISRAEL ISRAEL HENRY DEFOREST THOMAS HARRISON CALEB LOWNES And several of the Overseers of the Poor . The Committee appointed to confer with the physicians who have the charge of the sick at ...
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... Stephen Girard * JOSEPH RUSSELL † ANDREW ADGATE Mathew Carey THOMAS SAVERY * WILLIAM CLIFTON SAMUEL BENGE JOHN CONNELLY * JACOB WEAVER † DANIEL OFFLEY * JOHN M'CULLOCH CALEB LOWNES Thomas Wistar ISRAEL ISRAEL THOS . HARRISON † JOSEPH ...
... Stephen Girard * JOSEPH RUSSELL † ANDREW ADGATE Mathew Carey THOMAS SAVERY * WILLIAM CLIFTON SAMUEL BENGE JOHN CONNELLY * JACOB WEAVER † DANIEL OFFLEY * JOHN M'CULLOCH CALEB LOWNES Thomas Wistar ISRAEL ISRAEL THOS . HARRISON † JOSEPH ...
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Page 420 - Ecstasy ! My pulse, as yours, doth temperately keep time, And makes as healthful music : it is not madness That I have utter'd : bring me to the test, And I the matter will re-word ; which madness Would gambol from.
Page 420 - ... twere, the mirror up to nature ; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure. Now this overdone or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve ; the censure of which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theatre of others.
Page 424 - Why would'st thou be a breeder of sinners ? I am myself indifferent honest ; but yet I could accuse me of such things, that it were better, my mother had not borne me...
Page 419 - Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus ; but use all gently ; for in the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say, whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
Page 419 - ... this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
Page 420 - ... accent of Christians nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Page 423 - Pale as his shirt, his knees knocking each other, And with a look so piteous in purport As if he had been loosed out of hell To speak of horrors, — he comes before me.
Page 419 - I have of late — but wherefore I know not — lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises ; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory...
Page 428 - Even for an egg-shell. Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour's at the stake. How stand I then, That have a father kill'd, a mother stain'd...
Page 426 - Hold, hold, my heart, And you, my sinews, grow not instant old, But bear me stiffly up ! Remember thee? Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat In this distracted globe.