The Register of Pennsylvania: Devoted to the Preservation of Facts and Documents and Every Other Kind of Useful Information Respecting the State of Pennsylvania, Volume 7Samuel Hazard W.F. Geddes, 1831 - Pennsylvania |
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Page 94 - Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language.
Page 66 - Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong ? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded ? 8 Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren.
Page 161 - ... and if it shall hereafter appear that any last will and testament was made by the said deceased...
Page 207 - All men have a natural and indefeasible right to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of their own consciences; no man can of right be compelled to attend, erect or support any place of worship, or to maintain any ministry against his consent...
Page 161 - ... goods, chattels, and credits of the said deceased at the time of his death, which at any time after shall come to the hands or possession of the said AB, or into the hands or possession of any other person or persons...
Page 165 - In these, ere triflers half their wish obtain, The toiling pleasure sickens into pain, And, even while Fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart, distrusting, asks if this be joy.
Page 203 - ... the same, in a violent and turbulent manner, to the terror of the people...
Page 291 - RESOLVED, That the preceding Constitution be laid before the United States, in Congress assembled, and that it is the opinion of this Convention, that it should afterwards be submitted to a Convention of Delegates, chosen in each State by the people thereof, under the recommendation of its Legislature, for their assent and ratification...
Page 66 - But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak.
Page 161 - And further do make, or cause to be made,' a true and "just account of his said administration at or before the