(FIRST LETTER – This letter appeared in the Pennsylvania Gazette of June 30, 1779. -Editor.) MESSRS. HALL AND SELLERS Gentlemen, A PIECE of very extraordinary complexion made its appearance in your last paper, under the signature of Americanus, and what is equally as extraordinary, I have not yet met with one advocate in its favour. […]
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To SILAS DEANE, Esq; From Pennsylvania Packet, December 15, 1778. AFTER reading a few lines of your address to the public in the Pennsylvania Packet of December 6th, I can truly say, that concern got the better of curiosity, and I felt an unwillingness to go through it. Mr. Deane must very well know that
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A SERIOUS ADDRESS to the PEOPLE of PENNSYLVANIA, on the present situation of their affairs. from the Pennsylvania Packet, December 1, 5, 10, 12, 1778. Unwilling as I have been to have my attention called from the great object of the Continent, I now find it necessary to pay some regard to the peace and
Candid and Critical Remarks on LETTER I. Signed LUDLOW. See the Journal, No. 1790. from The Pennsylvania Journal, June 4, 1777 EVERY subject for discussion may be treated two several ways, generally or particularly. In a general review exactness is not expected; but when a writer undertakes to examine and lay down the parts of
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TO THE PEOPLE from Pennsylvania Packet, March 18, 1777. THERE are particular periods both in public and domestic life, in which, the excellence of wisdom consists in a due government of the temper: Without this, zeal degenerates into rage, and affection into bitterness. And so necessary is this qualification, in every stage of life, that
Forester Letter I from the Pennsylvania Journal April 3, 1776. To CATO TO be nobly wrong is more manly than to be meanly right. Only let the error be disinterested — let it wear not the mask, but the mark of principle, and 'tis pardonable. It is on this large and liberal ground, that we
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EPISTLE TO THE QUAKERS, from Bradford's 3rd edition of Common Sense To the Representatives of the Religious Society of the People called Quakers, or to so many of them as were concerned in publishing the late piece, entitled "THE ANCIENT TESTIMONY AND PRINCIPLES of the People called QUAKERS renewed, with Respect to the KING AND
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