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... justice be expected to republish articles by which the chances of loss are as a hundred to one . I flattered myself I could find twenty persons in Boston , New York , Baltimore , and Philadelphia , who would patronize this plan . I was ...
... justice be expected to republish articles by which the chances of loss are as a hundred to one . I flattered myself I could find twenty persons in Boston , New York , Baltimore , and Philadelphia , who would patronize this plan . I was ...
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... justice and truth will permit . Amidst the general abandonment of the sick that prevailed , there were to be found many illustrious instances of men and women , some in the middle , others in the lower spheres of life , who , in the ...
... justice and truth will permit . Amidst the general abandonment of the sick that prevailed , there were to be found many illustrious instances of men and women , some in the middle , others in the lower spheres of life , who , in the ...
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... justice . Stephen Girard , a wealthy merchant , a native of France , and one of the members of the committee , sympathis- ing with the wretched situation of the sufferers at Bushhill , vo- luntarily and unexpectedly offered himself as a ...
... justice . Stephen Girard , a wealthy merchant , a native of France , and one of the members of the committee , sympathis- ing with the wretched situation of the sufferers at Bushhill , vo- luntarily and unexpectedly offered himself as a ...
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... justice of the hypothesis which I have advanced - that the increase or abatement of the violence of the disorder , depended on other causes than the degree of heat , cold , rainy or dry weather . Here is the most palpable proof . The ...
... justice of the hypothesis which I have advanced - that the increase or abatement of the violence of the disorder , depended on other causes than the degree of heat , cold , rainy or dry weather . Here is the most palpable proof . The ...
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... justice . Governor Moultrie's proclamation , announcing the existence of the malignant fever in the Grenadas , & c . , and ordering a quarantine , is dated the 7th of June . Some of the postmasters , in the different States , used the ...
... justice . Governor Moultrie's proclamation , announcing the existence of the malignant fever in the Grenadas , & c . , and ordering a quarantine , is dated the 7th of June . Some of the postmasters , in the different States , used the ...
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adopted afford amount ANDREW ADGATE annual appears attended banks believe benevolent Bushhill Cape François cents character cloudy fair comfort committee consequence considerable degree disorder distress dollars per annum employed employment equal evil expense fair fair fellow citizens female five friends half HENRY DEFOREST honour hope hospital human hundred important increase industry Infant School infected inhabitants labour ladies letter liberal liberty lords justices Mac-Mahon malignant fever Mathew Carey MATTHEW CLARKSON means ment miserable moral nation nearly never O'Conally object oppressed Pennsylvania pernicious persons Peter Helm Philadelphia Philo Junius poor portion present prevailed probably procure produce proper quarto racter received regarded relief render respectable sick Sir William Parsons slavery slaves society South Carolina Stephen Girard subscribers subscription sufferings Thomas Savery tion town United vessels wages week whole wholly women yellow fever
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Sida 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.
Sida 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.
Sida 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...
Sida 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.
Sida 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.
Sida 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.
Sida 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.
Sida 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...
Sida 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...
Sida 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.