The Tiernan Family in Maryland

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Gallery McCann, 1898 - 222 halaman

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Halaman 54 - Of her bright face one glance will trace A picture on the brain, And of her voice in echoing hearts A sound must long remain; But memory, such as mine of her, So very much endears, When death is nigh my latest sigh Will not be life's, but hers.
Halaman 210 - That a committee be chosen in every county, city, and town, by those who are qualified to vote for representatives in the legislature, whose business it shall be attentively to observe the conduct of all persons touching this association ; and when it shall be made to appear to the satisfaction of a majority of any such committee, that any person within the limits of their appointment has violated this association...
Halaman 55 - I fill this cup to one made up Of loveliness alone, A woman, of her gentle sex The seeming paragon; To whom the better elements And kindly stars have given A form so fair, that, like the air, Tis less of earth than heaven.
Halaman 91 - Maryland/ being sick and weak in body / but of sound and disposing mind/ memory and understanding/ considering the certainty of death and the uncertainty of the time thereof/ and being desirous to settle my worldly affairs and thereby be the better prepared to leave this world when it shall please God to call me hence...
Halaman 54 - To whom the better elements and kindly stars have given A form so fair, that, like the air, 'tis less of earth than heaven. Her every tone is music's own, like those of morning birds, And something more than melody dwells ever in her words ; The coinage of her heart are they, and from her lips each flows As one may see the burthened bee forth issue from the rose.
Halaman 22 - Carr, as deputied with two ships, for that intent. "Sir Robert Carr did often protest to me, that he did not come as an enemy, but as a friend ; demanding, only in friendship, what was the King's own, in that country. "There was taken from the City and the inhabitants thereabout, to the value, so near as I can now remember, of four thousand pound sterling, likewise arms, powder and shot in great quantity.
Halaman 14 - Master of the Ordnance. My Lord Baltimore and Mr. Penn attending, are called in, and both Parties being heard, my Lord Baltimore gives their Lordships an Account that, in the Year 1642, one Ployden sailed up Delaware River, and did not see any House there at that time, as is affirmed by a Deposition produced by Mr. Penn; and the Copy of a Report of the Commissioners of Foreign Plantations, on the 4th of April 1638, touching the Differences between the Lord Baltimore and Mr.
Halaman 19 - Delaware, in a ship called the Beaver, hired at New York, after the ship Prince Maurice was lost; this was the 25th...
Halaman 80 - ... You have youth, health, talents, and ambition ; and if you exert all the attributes which God and nature have given you, you have it in your power to be distinguished. Nevertheless, in your course through life there are some evils which the vessel of your adventure must endeavor to avoid. The first of these impediments is the rock of extra modesty, which is not very remote from that of mauvaise honte ; if your hopes are shipwrecked upon either, it will be doing injustice to your skill as a pilot....
Halaman 14 - If things become worse, I, individually, am ruined, for I have received here, some goods from my brothers, all of which I have laid out in a house, horses and mules, which cost me fully, four to six thousand guilders, Holland currency. "Besides that, I am also married. ... "Herewith I commend your Honor to the mercy and protection of the Most High God, and remain. "Your obedient, humble servant, "G. Van Sweringen" granted permission to visit Holland.

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