The Port Folio, Volume 5Editor and Asbury Dickens, 1811 - Philadelphia (Pa.) |
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It is not Vanity which induces me to present to the view of the Institute a Picture in Encaustic but I yield to the persuasion that it is niy duty at least to show the result of an art so far brought to perfection in France , alilough ...
It is not Vanity which induces me to present to the view of the Institute a Picture in Encaustic but I yield to the persuasion that it is niy duty at least to show the result of an art so far brought to perfection in France , alilough ...
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severe . lowed an excmption from the oppressive routine of militia duty : but the harbour of Sherburne is mostly filled with ice every season , and in the hard winter of 1780 , the surface of the sea was frozen over as far as the eye ...
severe . lowed an excmption from the oppressive routine of militia duty : but the harbour of Sherburne is mostly filled with ice every season , and in the hard winter of 1780 , the surface of the sea was frozen over as far as the eye ...
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It is moreover , as my friends , the lawyers , would express it , my bounden duty to introduce to my countrymen every illustrious stranger , whenever I have the glorious opportunity of being the gentleman usher on such an occasion .
It is moreover , as my friends , the lawyers , would express it , my bounden duty to introduce to my countrymen every illustrious stranger , whenever I have the glorious opportunity of being the gentleman usher on such an occasion .
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With these qualifications he became successively the advocate , the attorney general , and the chancellor of France , and executed the duties of those important offices with equal fidelity and wisdom , with the approbation of his ...
With these qualifications he became successively the advocate , the attorney general , and the chancellor of France , and executed the duties of those important offices with equal fidelity and wisdom , with the approbation of his ...
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Yet amid his power and his honours , when perplexed by a variety of intricate employments , he never allowed the fatigues of his office or of study to induce him to neglect the duties of humanity and benevolence .
Yet amid his power and his honours , when perplexed by a variety of intricate employments , he never allowed the fatigues of his office or of study to induce him to neglect the duties of humanity and benevolence .
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| Title | The Port Folio, Volume 5 Volumes 40-42; Volumes 220-227 of American periodical series, 1800-1850 |
| Contributors | Joseph Dennie, Asbury Dickins, John Elihu Hall |
| Publisher | Editor and Asbury Dickens, 1811 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 11 Apr 2019 |
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