The Life and Character of Stephen Girard: Mariner and Merchant. With an Appendix Descriptive of Girard College1886 - 169 páginas |
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The Life and ]Character of Stephen Girard Mariner and Merchant Henry Atlee Ingram,E. Stanley Hart Sin vista previa disponible - 2019 |
The Life and ]Character of Stephen Girard Mariner and Merchant Henry Atlee Ingram,E. Stanley Hart Sin vista previa disponible - 2019 |
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Página 138 - I enjoin and require that no ecclesiastic, missionary, or minister of any sect whatsoever, shall ever hold or exercise any station or duty whatever in the said College; nor shall any such person ever by admitted for any purpose, or as a visitor, within the premises appropriated to the purposes of the said College.
Página 63 - A carriage, rapidly driven by a black man, broke the silence of the deserted and grass-grown street. It stopped before a frame house, and the driver, first having bound a handkerchief over his mouth, opened the door of the carriage, and quickly remounted to the box. A short, thick-set man stepped from the coach and entered the house.
Página 139 - In making this restriction, I do not mean to cast any reflection upon any sect or person •whatsoever ; but, as there is such a multitude of sects, and such a diversity of opinion amongst them, I desire to keep the tender minds of the orphans, who are to derive advantage from this bequest, free from the excitement which clashing doctrines and sectarian controversy are so apt to produce ; my desire is, that all the instructors and teachers in the college shall take pains to instil into the minds...
Página 139 - ... that all the instructors and teachers in the college, shall take pains to instill into the minds of the scholars, the purest principles of morality, so that, on their entrance into active life, they may, from inclination and habit, evince benevolence toward their fellowcreatures, and a love of truth, sobriety, and industry, adopting at the same time, such religious tenets as their matured reason may enable them to prefer.
Página 64 - ... little man supporting with extreme difficulty a tall, gaunt, yellowvisaged victim of the pestilence. Girard held round the waist the sick man, whose yellow face rested against his own ; his long, damp, tangled hair mingled with Girard's ; his feet dragging helpless upon the pavement. Thus he drew him to the carriage door, the driver averting his face from the spectacle, far from offering to assist. Partly dragging, partly lifting, he succeeded, after long and severe exertion, in getting him into...
Página 57 - Most of those who could, by any means, make it convenient, fled from the city. Of those who remained, many shut themselves up in their houses, being afraid to walk the streets. The smoke of tobacco being regarded as a preventive, many persons, even women and small boys, had segars almost constantly in their mouths.
Página 61 - In fine, we are in a most deplorable situation. Those of our people who have escaped the disease, have fled from their homes; almost all the houses are closed, and Philadelphians are not received into the neighboring villages, without undergoing quarantine. The few who have had the courage to remain, have established a Hospital at a little distance from the city, for the reception of the unfortunate. I am the active Director, which causes me much anxiety. I do not know when the disease will cease....
Página 141 - As to myself, I live like a galley-slave, constantly occupied, and often passing the night without sleeping. I am wrapped up in a labyrinth of affairs, and worn out with cares.
Página 57 - ... vinegar. Others carried pieces of tarred rope in their hands or pockets, or camphor bags tied round their necks. The corpses of the most respectable citizens, even of those who had not died of the epidemic, were carried to the grave on the shafts of a chair, the horse driven by a negro, unattended by a friend or relation, and without any sort of ceremony. People uniformly and hastily shifted their course at the sight of a hearse coming towards them.
Página 58 - ... children — children ungratefully flying from their parents, and resigning them to chance, often without an inquiry after their health or safety — masters hurrying off their faithful servants to Bushhill, even...