Byways and Boulevards in and about Historic PhiladelphiaCorn Exchange National Bank, 1925 - 320 páginas |
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... stood on a little hill , inscriptions on the open Bible are significant some thirty feet north of Beck's alley , and not only for their meaning - ( " The people had a large garden and various fruit trees that have walked in darkness ...
... stood on a little hill , inscriptions on the open Bible are significant some thirty feet north of Beck's alley , and not only for their meaning - ( " The people had a large garden and various fruit trees that have walked in darkness ...
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... stood at the spot where Penn first landed when he came up the Delaware from Chester . Once a wandering creek , the present Dock Street still winds its way towards Second Street , where in Penn's day the stream was lost in the woods . At ...
... stood at the spot where Penn first landed when he came up the Delaware from Chester . Once a wandering creek , the present Dock Street still winds its way towards Second Street , where in Penn's day the stream was lost in the woods . At ...
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... stood the home of Thomas going along this street with wife and daugh- Holme , Penn's first Surveyor General , a tabter , happy in hope for the future great city let now marking the site . In Holme's " Map he was founding , and solemnly ...
... stood the home of Thomas going along this street with wife and daugh- Holme , Penn's first Surveyor General , a tabter , happy in hope for the future great city let now marking the site . In Holme's " Map he was founding , and solemnly ...
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... stood on the called the Union School , was founded . present site in Market Square was put up by At the southwest corner of Walnut Lane members of the German Reformed Church and Main Street is to be seen the oldest house in 1733. Count ...
... stood on the called the Union School , was founded . present site in Market Square was put up by At the southwest corner of Walnut Lane members of the German Reformed Church and Main Street is to be seen the oldest house in 1733. Count ...
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... stood of Germantown , afterwards recovered , and near this house , the first one being washed bound into complete Bibles for Sower's away by a freshet in 1701. A cluster of children . houses stood until a few years ago near the Erected ...
... stood of Germantown , afterwards recovered , and near this house , the first one being washed bound into complete Bibles for Sower's away by a freshet in 1701. A cluster of children . houses stood until a few years ago near the Erected ...
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Byways and Boulevards in and about Historic Philadelphia Francis Burke Brandt,Henry Volkmar Gummere Vista de fragmentos - 1925 |
Byways and Boulevards in and about Historic Philadelphia Francis Burke Brandt,Henry Volkmar Gummere Sin vista previa disponible - 2013 |
Byways and Boulevards in and About Historic Philadelphia (Classic Reprint) Francis Burke Brandt Sin vista previa disponible - 2016 |
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Pasajes populares
Página 82 - I have been the more particular in this description of my journey, and shall be so of my first entry into that city, that you may in your mind compare such unlikely beginnings with the figure I have since made there.
Página 174 - In the year of CHRIST MDCCLV., George the Second happily reigning (for he sought the happiness of his people), Philadelphia flourishing (for its inhabitants were public-spirited), this building, by the bounty of the government, and of many private persons, was piously founded for the relief of the sick and miserable. May the GOD OF MERCIES bless the undertaking.
Página 38 - on the broad pathway of good faith and good will ; no advantage shall be taken on either side, but all shall be openness and love.
Página 86 - If to be venerated for benevolence, if to be admired for talents, if to be esteemed for patriotism, if to be beloved for philanthropy, can gratify the human mind, you must have the pleasing consolation to know, that you have not lived in vain.
Página 116 - Powel's with and many others; a most sinful feast again! everything which could delight the eye or allure the taste; curds and creams, jellies, sweetmeats of various sorts, twenty sorts of tarts, fools, trifles, floating islands, whipped sillibub &c., &c. Parmesan cheese, punch, wine, porter, beer, etc.
Página 40 - My soul prays to God for thee, that thou mayest stand in the day of trial, that thy children may be blessed of the Lord, and thy people saved by his power.
Página 110 - Earth, to establish our liberty and independence on a lasting foundation ; it becomes us to set apart a day for gratefully acknowledging the Divine goodness, and celebrating the important event which we owe to His benign interposition.
Página 40 - And thou, Philadelphia, the virgin settlement of this province, named before thou wert born, what love, what care, what service, and what travail, has there been to bring thee forth and preserve thee from such as would abuse and defile thee!
Página 123 - The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders, are no more. I am not a Virginian, but an American.
Página 72 - Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through nature up to nature's God...