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Excerpt from The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 1884, Vol. 8Perhaps you have a curiosity to have a description of Congress Hall, it is a large, elegant brick building, the north end on Chestnut street. The Representative's room is on the lower ¿oor. The Speaker sits in a large arm chair with a table before him like a toilette, covered with green cloth, fringed. The Speaker's seat is elevated about 2 feet and is on the west sid...

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Excerpt from The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 1880, Vol. 42 The lack of knowledge concerning the Germans amounts at times almost to obtuseness. Dr. William Smith wrote in 1753 a letter, recently printed, in which he said they were in danger of sinking into barbarian ignorance, while in another sentence he complained with the utmost naivete that they import many foreign books, and in Penna. Have their printing houses and thei...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Excerpt from The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 1916, Vol. 40A profound student of the history of Pennsylvania, particularly in the department of biography, he was one of the few who brought to the illumination of his work the taste and the knowledge of a collector of prints, manuscripts, autograph letters and pamphlets, and that accurate familiarity with the details of our development as a Commonwealth which such an ami able ...

Excerpt from The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 22William spohn baker, a vice-president and member of the Council of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, was born in Philadelphia, April 17, 1824, and died at his resi dence on Arch Street, September 8, 1897.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an im...

Excerpt from Western Pennsylvania Historical Magazine, Vol. 5Virginia was also anxious for the Ohio Indian trade, and in 1748 there was formed by London merchants and a few leading men in Virginia, including Thomas Lee the Presi dent of the Council of the Colony, and two brothers of George Washington, the Ohio Company, to trade with the Indians and settle on their lands, Governor Dinwiddie becoming a partner at a later date. They obtained a gr...

Excerpt from The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 1888, Vol. 12Sir William, the father of our lieutenant-governor, was intimate. From a letter of the Earl of Perth to his sister.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally re...

Excerpt from The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 1889, Vol. 13I declined your appointment as historian of the bar and bench of Allegheny County. I found that the admissions to this bar in 1863 had been six hundred and fifty. The correspondence and labor of collecting information and the compilation of even a partial number of sketches would ex tend over many months, resulting in a large book instead of a modest pamphlet appropr...

Excerpt from The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 1877, Vol. 1The organization of the Publication Fund, the list of subscribers to it, and the titles of the books already issued, are to be found at the end of this yolume.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses ...

Excerpt from Western Pennsylvania Historical Magazine, Vol. 1For a number of years the Historical Society of West ern Pennsylvania realized that it would be advantageous to conduct a magazine, but did not feel able to undertake the work. It is now prepared to answer the call, and the result is its entry into the list of publishers. It is hoped that the magazine will be a valuable instrument in the preservation, discussion, and dissemination of...

Excerpt from Western Pennsylvania Historical Magazine, Vol. 3Of course the suit was cheap in price, it was also cheap in material and make up. The clothiers had a sliding scale of prices, and in the clothing business there was wide lati tude.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books...

Excerpt from The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 1906, Vol. 30I cannot stop to dwell upon the features of this extra ordinary struggle, but as a necessary prelude to a statement of what was actually accomplished by the founder of our Commonwealth towards the close of the period of state planting, I invite you to glance brie¿y at what had been written and argued upon the subject of government.About the PublisherForgotten Books p...

Excerpt from Memoirs of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Vol. 2 of 2Abigail Powel, members in unity with the society of Friends. His father left him an infant: from his mother be re ceived that education which qualified him so well, by the regular, moral, ' and religious habits it produced, for.the ex. Croise of a life of piety and usefulness. As he ripened in age he grew convinced of the correctness, in principle and practice, of the r...

Excerpt from Abstract of the Meeting of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Held March 13, 1911: Presentation of Portrait of Henry Charles LeaMembers of the American Philosophical Society, Members and Representatives Of the Library Company of Philadelphia, Of the Uni versity of Pennsylvania, of the Academy of Natural Sciences, and of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Ladies and Gentlemen: In the days of Julius Caesar and during the w...

Excerpt from Synopsis of the Proceedings of the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania, Late Old Residents' Association: During the First Five YearsThe following pages are but an abstract of the minutes of the Society's meetings under its several forms, and as such are respect fully submitted to the members of the Society, our citizens in gen eral and our sister societies throughout the country, in the hope that they will look with encoura...

Excerpt from The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 1915, Vol. 39It was while engaged in some survey work for the Commissioners, in the summer Of 1761, that he con tracted the in¿uenza. He caught a severe cold on a very warm day towards the end of June, and such was his anxiety to return home for medical treatment that he ceased work and rode sixty miles on horseback in one day, but was able to reach the home of William Blackfan, ...