Warren County History and Directory: Or, The Farmers̓ Manual and Business Mens̓ Guide

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Press of the Review, 1886 - 478 pàgines
 

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Pàgina 158 - ORDER Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time. 4 RESOLUTION Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve. 5 FRUGALITY Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; ie, waste nothing. 6 INDUSTRY Lose no time; be always employed in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions.
Pàgina 9 - All that tract of land adjacent to New England, and lying and being to the westward of Long Island and Manhitas Island, and bounded on the east part by the main sea and part by Hudson's River, and hath upon the west Delaware Bay or river...
Pàgina 32 - Province, you are to provide by all necessary Orders, that no Person keep any press for printing, nor that any Book, Pamphlet or other matters whatsoever be printed without your especial Leave and License first obtained.
Pàgina 9 - Island, and bounded on the east part by the main sea and part by Hudson's River, and hath upon the west Delaware Bay or River, and extendeth southward to the main ocean as far as Cape May, at the mouth of Delaware Bay, and to the northward as far as the northernmost branch of the said Bay or River of Delaware, which is forty-one degrees and forty minutes of latitude...
Pàgina 11 - His sentence was as extraordinary as his conduct : it was that, " though he deserved death, yet, because he had, since the surrender, been in England, and seen the king and the duke, it was adjudged that his sword should be broke over his head, in public, before the city-hall ; and himself rendered incapable of wearing a sword, and of serving his majesty for the future, in any public trust in the government.
Pàgina 19 - I have seen orchards laden with fruit to admiration, their very limbs torn to pieces with the weight, and most delicious to the taste, and lovely to behold.
Pàgina 349 - Be it Enacted by the Council and General Assembly of this State, and it is hereby enacted by the Authority of the same, That...
Pàgina 170 - ... downwards, always commencing each successive course a little higher than the upper stroke had extended, till the bottom be finished. This operation, if carefully performed, will frequently make very old paper look almost equal to new. Great caution must be used not by any means to rub the paper hard, nor to attempt cleaning it the cross or horizontal way.
Pàgina 46 - ... moderate in asking a price for any thing they had for sale. When a company travelled together, they generally followed each other in silence, scarcely ever two were seen by the side of one another ; in roads the man went before with his bow and arrow, the woman after, not uncommonly with a child at her back, and other burdens besides : but when these were too heavy, the man assisted. To know their walks again, in unfrequented woods, they heaped stones or marked trees.
Pàgina 47 - ... which introduced a train of new disorders among them. They were grave, even to sadness upon any common, and more so upon serious occasions ; observant of those in company, and respectful to the old ; of a temper cool and deliberate ; never in haste to speak, but waited for a certainty that the person who spoke before them had finished all he had to say. They seemed to hold European vivacity in contempt, because they found such as came among them apt to interrupt each other, and frequently speak...

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