Hazard's Register of Pennsylvania: Devoted to the Preservation of Facts and Documents, and Every Kind of Useful Information Respecting the State of Pennsylvania, Volume 1Samuel Hazard W.F. Geddes, 1828 - Pennsylvania |
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... feet in height would ensure a supply of the Eastern Division , and furnish a convenient crossing at Clark's Lower Ferry , but that if Duncan's Island should be the place of crossing , an addition of height must be given to raise the ...
... feet in height would ensure a supply of the Eastern Division , and furnish a convenient crossing at Clark's Lower Ferry , but that if Duncan's Island should be the place of crossing , an addition of height must be given to raise the ...
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... feet per second ; while the necessary conformity with his instructions Major Wilson next pro- demand for filtration and evaporation in that distance ceeded to the mouth of Swatara , and commenced the would be 12 cubic feet per second ...
... feet per second ; while the necessary conformity with his instructions Major Wilson next pro- demand for filtration and evaporation in that distance ceeded to the mouth of Swatara , and commenced the would be 12 cubic feet per second ...
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... feet , is a decided disad- vantage . When the additional fact is remembered that , according to the reports both of Mr. Whippo and of Major Douglass , the quantity of water to be obtained on the Waterford summit , though it would ...
... feet , is a decided disad- vantage . When the additional fact is remembered that , according to the reports both of Mr. Whippo and of Major Douglass , the quantity of water to be obtained on the Waterford summit , though it would ...
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... feet in length by means of the Susquehanna river and its tributaries . and 16 in breadth , 34 feet in height , and drawing 23 in- A portion of these commodities are landed at various ches when laden is from 350 to 420 barrels or ...
... feet in length by means of the Susquehanna river and its tributaries . and 16 in breadth , 34 feet in height , and drawing 23 in- A portion of these commodities are landed at various ches when laden is from 350 to 420 barrels or ...
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... feet higher , to keep the ice from being forced over into the harbour . 2d . As to the partial Breakwater at the position A. From the point c , which is in about twelve feet water , we draw the line eƒ , of 1100 feet , so as to form ...
... feet higher , to keep the ice from being forced over into the harbour . 2d . As to the partial Breakwater at the position A. From the point c , which is in about twelve feet water , we draw the line eƒ , of 1100 feet , so as to form ...
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Page 337 - I choose to solve the controversy with this small distinction, and it belongs to all three : any government is free to the people under it (whatever be the frame) where the laws rule and the people are a party to those laws, and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or confusion.
Page 376 - I have great love and regard towards you, and I desire to win and gain your love and friendship by a kind, just and peaceable life...
Page 337 - Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them ; and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them they are ruined too. Wherefore governments rather depend upon men, than men upon governments. Let men be good, and the government cannot be bad; if it be ill, they will cure it. But if men be bad, let the government be never so good, they will endeavour to warp and spoil it to their turn.
Page 359 - 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...
Page 338 - 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.
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Page 337 - For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good. and thou shalt have praise of the same: for he is a minister of God to thee for good.
Page 376 - God hath been pleased to make me concerned in your part of the world, and the King of the country where I live hath given me a great province therein, but I desire to enjoy it with your love and consent, that we may always live together as neighbours and friends, else what would the great God do to us, who hath made us not to devour and destroy one another, but to live soberly and kindly together in the world...
Page 378 - Selection" from that invaluable work. It was well received, and has been approved and recommended by several very respectable public critics. He wrote also a little piece, published in 1817, " On the Duty and Benefit of a daily Perusal of the Holy Scriptures.
Page 326 - A supplement to the act, entitled an act for the relief and employment of the poor of the city of Philadelphia, the district of Southwark, and the townships, of the Northern Liberties, and Penn.