Annals of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania: Being a Collection of Memoirs, Anecdotes, and Incidents of the City and Its Inhabitants, and of the Earliest Settlements of the Inland Part of Pennsylvania , from the Days of the Founders ...Parry and M'Millan, 1879 |
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... street was also changed ; the original idea of Penn was to have it equidistant from both rivers , and to have the ... Chestnut street ; Pool street ( as it crossed a pool at Dock Creek ) became Walnut street ; Dock street ( because it ...
... street was also changed ; the original idea of Penn was to have it equidistant from both rivers , and to have the ... Chestnut street ; Pool street ( as it crossed a pool at Dock Creek ) became Walnut street ; Dock street ( because it ...
第 41 頁
... street to Vine street , the original boundaries of the city , was 5253 feet , divided thus : from Cedar to Pine , 652 ; to Spruce , 468 ; to Walnut , 821 ; to Chestnut , 510 ; to Market , 497 ; to Arch , 663 ; to Race , 614 ; to Vine ...
... street to Vine street , the original boundaries of the city , was 5253 feet , divided thus : from Cedar to Pine , 652 ; to Spruce , 468 ; to Walnut , 821 ; to Chestnut , 510 ; to Market , 497 ; to Arch , 663 ; to Race , 614 ; to Vine ...
第 86 頁
... street , between Fourth and Fifth streets , nearly opposite to the present Baptist meeting - house . He removed from ... Chestnut street , near its present banking - house . Its first president was Andrew Bayard ( father of Charles P ...
... street , between Fourth and Fifth streets , nearly opposite to the present Baptist meeting - house . He removed from ... Chestnut street , near its present banking - house . Its first president was Andrew Bayard ( father of Charles P ...
第 88 頁
... Chestnut street , ' 26th 1st mo . , 1689 . For some time without inhabitants , p . 74. - This is not correct ; he ... streets . 1792. Matthew Clarkson . 1796. Hilary Baker . 1800. John Inskeep . 1798. Robert Wharton . Robert T. Conrad ...
... Chestnut street , ' 26th 1st mo . , 1689 . For some time without inhabitants , p . 74. - This is not correct ; he ... streets . 1792. Matthew Clarkson . 1796. Hilary Baker . 1800. John Inskeep . 1798. Robert Wharton . Robert T. Conrad ...
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... streets , even within my time , until some thirty years ago . The One - penny Bills of Bank of North America , p . 104. - I have two , obtained when the old building was being removed . The office was temporarily removed to Chestnut street ...
... streets , even within my time , until some thirty years ago . The One - penny Bills of Bank of North America , p . 104. - I have two , obtained when the old building was being removed . The office was temporarily removed to Chestnut street ...
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第 215 頁 - Whilst the last members were signing, Doctor Franklin, looking towards the President's chair, at the back of which a rising sun happened to be painted, observed to a few members near him that painters had found it difficult to distinguish in their art a rising from a setting sun. I have, said he, often and often, in the course of the session, and the vicissitudes of my hopes and fears as to its issue, looked at that behind the President without being able to tell whether it was rising or setting;...
第 103 頁 - Wilt thou find patience! Yet die not; do thou Wear rather in thy bonds a cheerful brow: Though fallen thyself, never to rise again, Live, and take comfort. Thou hast left behind Powers that will work for thee; air, earth, and skies; There's not a breathing of the common wind That will forget thee; thou hast great allies; Thy friends are exultations, agonies, And love, and man's unconquerable mind.
第 111 頁 - And when he was entered into a ship, his disciples followed him. And, behold, there arose a great tempest in the sea, insomuch that the ship was covered with the waves : but he was asleep. And his disciples came to him, and awoke him, saying, Lord, save us : we perish.
第 290 頁 - IN that delightful land which is washed by the Delaware's waters, Guarding in sylvan shades the name of Penn the apostle, Stands on the banks of its beautiful stream the city he founded. There all the air is balm, and the peach is the emblem of beauty, And. the streets still reecho the names of the trees of the forest, As if they fain would appease the Dryads whose haunts they molested.
第 101 頁 - And yet, steeped in sentiment as she lies, spreading her gardens to the moonlight, and whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age, who will deny that Oxford, by her ineffable charm, keeps ever calling us nearer to the true goal of all of us, to the ideal, to perfection — to beauty in a word, which is only truth seen from another side? — nearer, perhaps, than all the science of Tubingen.
第 383 頁 - C. D., his executors, administrators or assigns ; for which payment, well and truly to be made, I bind myself, my heirs, executors and administrators firmly by these presents.
第 410 頁 - The Philadelphia Contributionship for the Insurance of Houses from Loss by Fire.
第 268 頁 - The Lord our God be with us, as he was with our fathers; let him not leave us nor forsake us; that he may incline our hearts unto him, to walk in all his ways and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, which he commanded our fathers.
第 111 頁 - And he saith unto them, Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm.
第 338 頁 - Be it remembered, in honor of the Philadelphia youth (then chiefly artificers), that in MDCCXXXI, they cheerfully, at the instance of Benjamin Franklin, one of their number, instituted the Philadelphia Library, which, though small at first, is become highly valuable, and extensively useful, and which the walls of this edifice arc now destined to contain and preserve ; the first stone of whose foundation was here placed the thirty-first day of August, 1789.