Annals of Philadelphia, and Pennsylvania, in the Olden Time: 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, 第 3 卷E.S. Stuart, 1887 |
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... Hose Company , the first in the city . Buckets and pumps had theretofore alone been used . ( See p . 424. ) LYDIA DARRACH AND CAPTAIN LOXLEY . Lydia Darrach , p . 412. - See Reg . Penna . , i . 48 , for a par- ticular account of this ...
... Hose Company , the first in the city . Buckets and pumps had theretofore alone been used . ( See p . 424. ) LYDIA DARRACH AND CAPTAIN LOXLEY . Lydia Darrach , p . 412. - See Reg . Penna . , i . 48 , for a par- ticular account of this ...
第 406 頁
... hose is not fixed directly on them , and down to 1860 they had not introduced steam fire - engines . To return to Philadelphia . From 1701 to 1736 the means of extinguishing fires were principally provided by the corporation of the city ...
... hose is not fixed directly on them , and down to 1860 they had not introduced steam fire - engines . To return to Philadelphia . From 1701 to 1736 the means of extinguishing fires were principally provided by the corporation of the city ...
第 408 頁
... hose ; of the latter the Union had eighty feet , and the Friendship one hundred and twenty feet . Each of the companies had an engine imported from England , and the Friendship had two ; the latter had also two hundred and forty buckets ...
... hose ; of the latter the Union had eighty feet , and the Friendship one hundred and twenty feet . Each of the companies had an engine imported from England , and the Friendship had two ; the latter had also two hundred and forty buckets ...
第 409 頁
... Hose Company determined to build a combined engine and hose , which was finally completed after the designs of James Sellers , an ingenious member , in 1814. It carried the hose on two cylinders , but was too heavy . This was superseded ...
... Hose Company determined to build a combined engine and hose , which was finally completed after the designs of James Sellers , an ingenious member , in 1814. It carried the hose on two cylinders , but was too heavy . This was superseded ...
第 410 頁
... hose competition soon caused them to dwindle out of existence . Even ladders and hooks disappeared , leaving in use only engines and hose - carriages . In 1851 the Empire Hook and Ladder Company was established , the want of these ...
... hose competition soon caused them to dwindle out of existence . Even ladders and hooks disappeared , leaving in use only engines and hose - carriages . In 1851 the Empire Hook and Ladder Company was established , the want of these ...
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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 290 頁 - Still stands the forest primeval; but far away from its shadow, Side by side, in their nameless graves, the lovers are sleeping. Under the humble walls of the little Catholic churchyard, In the heart of the city, they lie, unknown and unnoticed.
第 281 頁 - Adams arose and said, he was no bigot, and could hear a prayer from a gentleman of piety and virtue, who was at the same time a friend to his country.