Rand, McNally & Co.'s Handy Guide to Philadelphia and Environs: Including Atlantic City and Cape MayRand McNally & Company, 1905 - 168 páginas |
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Página 130 - As many poor white male orphans' between the ages of six and ten years, as the said income shall be adequate to maintain, shall be introduced into the college as soon as possible ; and from time to time as there may be vacancies, or as increased ability from income may warrant, others shall be introduced.
Página 86 - A great portent appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars.
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Página 102 - After passing through about two miles of broken water, we ran some wild-looking rapids, which are called the Lower Rapids, being the last on the river, which below is tranquil and smooth — a broad, magnificent stream. On a low broad point on the right bank of the river, at the lower end of these rapids, were pitched many tents of the emigrants, who were waiting here for their friends from above, or for boats and provisions which were expected from Vancouver. In our passage down the rapids, I had...
Página 143 - Bible so thoroughly that he could repeat it from the first verse of the first chapter of Genesis to the last verse in Revelations without making a single mistake. During the battle of Germantown at this point, while the fog was heavy, Americans mistook Americans for foes, and many of them were killed before the mistake was discovered. An old board fence in this place was a shelter behind which several soldiers took refuge, and tradition says that the spot where four of them were killed is marked...