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... require immediate assistance . This , it is hoped , may be found amongst the benevolent citizens , who , actuated by a willingness to contribute their aid in the present distress , will offer themselves as volunteers to support the ...
... require immediate assistance . This , it is hoped , may be found amongst the benevolent citizens , who , actuated by a willingness to contribute their aid in the present distress , will offer themselves as volunteers to support the ...
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... require ; that the citi- zens be again convened , in order that some effectual means be used , and a plan adopted to mitigate , and , if possible , to afford relief to the afflicted , both in the city and at the hospital at Bushhill ...
... require ; that the citi- zens be again convened , in order that some effectual means be used , and a plan adopted to mitigate , and , if possible , to afford relief to the afflicted , both in the city and at the hospital at Bushhill ...
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... require . 4. That they keep a just account of their proceedings and expenditures , and report to a future general meeting of the citizens . Resolved , That the chairman and secretary attend the ensu- 34 ACCOUNT OF THE FEVER OF 1793 ...
... require . 4. That they keep a just account of their proceedings and expenditures , and report to a future general meeting of the citizens . Resolved , That the chairman and secretary attend the ensu- 34 ACCOUNT OF THE FEVER OF 1793 ...
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... require ; and that they individually make a weekly return of the expendi- tures . Resolved , That James Kerr , Thomas Wistar , and John Letch- worth , be a committee to prepare suitable carriages for the use of the physicians and the ...
... require ; and that they individually make a weekly return of the expendi- tures . Resolved , That James Kerr , Thomas Wistar , and John Letch- worth , be a committee to prepare suitable carriages for the use of the physicians and the ...
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... requires that protection be given to those useful persons , and the good citizens are called upon to afford it to them , and to point out to the legal authority , all those who shall molest them in their employment . September 17 , 1793 ...
... requires that protection be given to those useful persons , and the good citizens are called upon to afford it to them , and to point out to the legal authority , all those who shall molest them in their employment . September 17 , 1793 ...
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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.