Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, Volumen19

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Página 57 - Annals of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania, in the Olden Time; being a Collection of Memoirs, Anecdotes, and Incidents of the City and its Inhabitants, and of the Earliest Settlements of the inland part of Pennsylvania, from the Days of the Founders.
Página 217 - Horace, Odes 111—30.” “Exegi monumentum acre perennius, Regalique situ pyramidum altius, Quod non imber edax, non Aquilo impotens Possit diruere, aut innumerabilis Annoruni series et fuga
Página 434 - Hopkins had read Greek "Roman and British history and was familiar with English "poetry, particularly Pope, Thomson and Milton, and the "flow of his soul made all of his reading our own, and seemed "to bring to recollection in all of us, all we had ever read."
Página 421 - lay down the Moluccas as belonging to Spain, placing them between the Line of Demarcation, 370 leagues west of the Cape Verde Islands, which line is also made the prime meridian, and the meridian 180° to the west, that is within the Spanish hemisphere. Measurement will show the
Página 71 - that my interlocutor was Uncle Zeb, Formerly, every New England town had its representative uncle. He was not a pawnbroker, but some elderly man who, for want of more defined family ties, had gradually assumed this avuncular relation to the
Página 364 - of the newspapers of the Ohio River Valley—Western Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, and Missouri—from the beginnings of the press in each state through the year 1812, as reported by the various libraries cited. No attempt has been made to cover the field exhaustively, but many local libraries, as well as the great national collections, have been examined. The
Página 278 - 18.] modore Augustus Keppel.] “A List of the Officers who were present and of those killed and wounded in the action on the banks of the Monongahela.” List contains 86 names headed by that of “His Excelency Edwd.
Página 56 - time when it first appeared in print, to a person who was equally aware of its origin, how odd it would be should this silly joke, originating in the midst of beef, pork, pickle, mud, salt, and hooppoles, eventually become a national cognomen.”
Página 53 - “Origin of ‘Uncle Sam.' “Much learning and research have been exercised in tracing the origin of odd names, and odd sayings, which, taking their rise in some trifling occurrence or event, easily explained or well understood for a time, yet, in the course of years, becoming
Página 106 - Air to fill the Globe has hitherto been kept secret; some suppose it to be only common Air heated by passing thro' the Flame of burning Straw, and thereby extreamly rarefied. If so, its Levity will soon be diminish'd,

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