History of the Province of Pennsylvania

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J. B. Lippincott Company, 1913 - 231 pages
 

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Page 9 - I have great love and regard towards you, and I desire to win and gain your love and friendship by a kind, just and peaceable life...
Page v - New- Jersey : Containing, an Account of its first Settlement, Progressive Improvements, the Original and present Constitution, and other events, to the Year 1721. With some particulars since ; and a short view of its present state.
Page 174 - Lord thine oaths; but I say unto you, Swear not at all; neither by heaven, for it is God's throne; nor by the earth, for it is his footstool; neither by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King. Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make one hair white or black. But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay; for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.
Page 43 - ... the oaths appointed by an act of parliament made in the first year of the reign of our late royal father, to be taken instead of the oaths of allegiance and supremacy...
Page 5 - Assignes, all that Tract or Parte of Land in America, with all the Islands therein conteyned, as the same is bounded on the East by Delaware River, from twelve miles distance Northwards of...
Page 5 - ... to be determined by a meridian line to be drawn from the head of the said river, unto the said forty-third degree.
Page 8 - THERE is a great God and power that hath made the world and all things therein, to whom you and I and all people owe their being and well-being ; and to whom you and I must one day give an account for all that we do in the world. This great God hath written his law in our hearts, by which we are taught and commanded to love and help, and do good to one another, and not to do harm and mischief one unto another.
Page 174 - Then said Jesus unto him, Put up again thy sword into his place : for all they that take the sword, shall perish with the sword.
Page 44 - ... notwithstanding. And to the end that nothing may be passed or done by our said Council or Assembly to the prejudice of us, our heirs and successors, we will and ordain that you, the said Lord Cornbury, shall have and enjoy a negative voice in the making and passing of all laws, statutes, and ordinances...
Page 43 - And our Will and Pleasure is that the Persons thereupon duly elected by the major Part of the Freeholders of the respective Counties and Places...

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