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Pagina 136 - tis hard to combat, learns to fly! For him no wretches, born to work and weep, Explore the mine, or tempt the...
Pagina 132 - Of lawyers and physicians I shall say nothing, because this country is very peaceable and healthy ; long may it so continue and never have occasion for the tongue of the one nor the pen of the other, both equally destructive to men's estates and lives ; besides forsooth, they, hangmanlike, have a license to murder and make mischief.
Pagina 174 - Soldier, rest! Thy warfare o'er, Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking; Dream of battled fields no more, Days of danger, nights of waking. In our Isle's enchanted hall, Hands unseen thy couch are strewing, Fairy strains of music fall, Every sense in slumber dewing.
Pagina 50 - Wagner as far west as Denver and as far south as New Orleans. Carnegie advised against it: 'Many people who have come for curiosity only . . . will not come back'.
Pagina 132 - Of Lawyers and Physicians I shall say nothing, because this country is very peacable and healthy: Long may it so continue and never have occasion for the tongue of the one nor the pen of the other — both equally destructive of men's estates and lives.
Pagina 264 - s marriage is both sorrowful and surprising, with one Colonel Coxe, a fine flaunting gentleman, said to be worth a great deal of money, — a great inducement, it is said, on her side. His sister Trent was supposed to have promoted the match. Her other friends were ignorant of the match. It took phice in the absence of her uncle and aunt Hill, between two and three in the morning, on the Jersey side, under a tree by fire light. They have since proselyted her, and decked her in finery.
Pagina 397 - The concessions and agreements of the proprietors, freeholders and inhabitants of the province of West New Jersey in America.
Pagina 264 - IV., 149, 182. He was elected to the Assembly in 1714, by the "Swedish vote" (NY Col. Docs., V., 399, 404), and again in February, 1716, from the county of Gloucester and from the town of Salem, both, although Sheriff William Harrison, of Gloucester, was accused of having resorted to sharp practice to secure his defeat, by removing the polls several miles from the usual place. Colonel Coxe declared to serve for Gloucester, instead of Salem, and being chosen Speaker, April 4, complained of Sheriff...
Pagina 255 - Jersey they have also their favorite places for building and rearing their young. These are generally in the gloomy solitudes of the tallest cedar swamps, where, if unmolested, they continue annually to breed for many years. These swamps are from half a mile to a mile in breadth, and sometimes five or six in length, and appear as if they occupied the former channel of some choked up river, stream, lake, or arm of the sea. The appearance they present to a stranger is singular — a front of tall and...
Pagina 92 - Jersey, does hereby make the following report, in compliance with the provisions of an act of the legislature of New Jersey entitled "An Act Concerning Corporations (Revision of 1896).