The Port Folio, Volume 5Editor and Asbury Dickens, 1811 - Philadelphia (Pa.) |
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Page 20
... equally repugnant to science and to common experience , and the most received ideas , or definitions of fluidity . The author is not to be excused , for citing a surmise so absurd . Nor is he less amenable for quoting the opinion of Mr ...
... equally repugnant to science and to common experience , and the most received ideas , or definitions of fluidity . The author is not to be excused , for citing a surmise so absurd . Nor is he less amenable for quoting the opinion of Mr ...
Page 29
... equally polite and respectful appeal to the conscience and faith of the King . Had he , as when before Fe- lix , entered into a statement of the doctrines of Christianity and " reasoned about Righteousness , Temperance , and a Judgment ...
... equally polite and respectful appeal to the conscience and faith of the King . Had he , as when before Fe- lix , entered into a statement of the doctrines of Christianity and " reasoned about Righteousness , Temperance , and a Judgment ...
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... thought only of turning to the best account the attainments of which he was already possessed . In this he manifested a resolu- tion and temper of mind equally becoming the christian and 94 LIFE OF BENJAMIN CHEW , ESQ .
... thought only of turning to the best account the attainments of which he was already possessed . In this he manifested a resolu- tion and temper of mind equally becoming the christian and 94 LIFE OF BENJAMIN CHEW , ESQ .
Page 95
tion and temper of mind equally becoming the christian and the man . Though Mr. Chew had , at this time , but little more than emer- ged from a state of minority , yet had he already acquired a dis- tinction and a maturity of reputation ...
tion and temper of mind equally becoming the christian and the man . Though Mr. Chew had , at this time , but little more than emer- ged from a state of minority , yet had he already acquired a dis- tinction and a maturity of reputation ...
Page 98
... equally offensive , while those who remained inactive during the contest , would have been eulogized as friends to or- der and good government . So precarious is the foundation of hu- man applause ! and so thin and perishable the ...
... equally offensive , while those who remained inactive during the contest , would have been eulogized as friends to or- der and good government . So precarious is the foundation of hu- man applause ! and so thin and perishable the ...
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