Memoirs of James Logan: A Distinguished Scholar and Christian Legislator; Founder of the Loganian Library at Philadelphia; Secretary of the Province of Pennsylvania; Chief Justice ... Including Several of His Letters and Those of His Correspondents, Many of which are Now First Printed from the Original Mss. Collated and Arranged for the Purpose

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C. Gilpin, 1851 - 192 halaman

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Halaman 89 - ... protested their innocence, declared their love to the English, and that in their whole lives, they had never done them injury ; and in this posture they all received the hatchet ! Men, women and children were every one inhumanly murdered in cold blood!
Halaman 37 - What are the distresses, grievances, and oppressions, that the papers, sent from thence, so often say you languish under, while others have cause to believe you have hitherto lived, or might live, the happiest of any in the Queen's dominions...
Halaman 59 - ... there, wherein we were greatly comforted ; so that I was ready to think this was a sort of sequestration of him from all the concerns of this life, which so much op pressed him, not in judgment, but in mercy, that he might have rest, and not be oppressed thereby to the end.
Halaman 32 - OLD FRIENDS : — It is a mournful consideration, and the cause of deep affliction to me, that I am forced, by the oppressions and disappointments which have fallen to my share in this life, to speak to the people of that province in a language I once hoped I should never have occasion to use.
Halaman 86 - Council: brethren, — We called at our old friend, James Logans in our way to the city, and to our grief we found him hid in the bushes, and retired through infirmities from public business; we pressed him to leave his retirement, and prevailed with him to assist once more on our account at your councils. We hope, notwithstanding his age and the effects of a fit of sickness, which we understand has hurt his constitution, that he may yet continue a long time to assist the provinces with his counsels.
Halaman 36 - Government ; my lands entered upon without any regular method ; my manors invaded (under pretence I had not duly surveyed them), and both these by persons principally concerned in these attempts against me here ; a right to my overplus land unjustly claimed by the possessors of the tracts in which they are found ; my private estate continually exhausting for the support of that government...
Halaman 58 - Truth, in the love of it, as before, wherein appeared the great mercy and favor of God, who looks not as man looks ; for, though to some this accident might look like judgment, and, no doubt, his enemies so accounted it, yet it will bear quite another interpretation...
Halaman 87 - He is a wise man, and a fast friend to the Indians; and we desire when his soul goes to God, you may choose in his room just such another person, of the same prudence and ability in counselling, and of the same tender disposition and affection for the Indians.
Halaman 12 - ... to a sense of their duty; and at thy return give a small treat in my name to the gentlemen at Philadelphia, for a beginning to a better understanding, for which I pray the Lord to incline their hearts for their own ease, as well as mine and my friends.
Halaman 174 - Ptolemy, on my inquiring of him at Hamburgh in * how I should find it, having long sought for it in vain in England ; he sent it me out of his own library, telling me it was so scarce, that neither prayers nor price could purchase it. Besides there are many of the most valuable Latin authors, and a great number of modern mathematicians, with all the three editions of Newton, Dr.

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