Introduction to the English reader : or, A selection of pieces, in prose and poetry, calculated to improve the younger classes of learners in reading, and to imbue their minds with the love of virture. To which are added, rules and observations for assisting children to read with propriety
Articles of association of the Lancaster Reading Room to which are added, the rules and regulations of the room, and of the library; a list of the officers and subscribers, &/ together with a catalogue of the books, & belongint to the Institution
A narrative of the mission of the United Brethren among the Delaware and Mohegan Indians : from its commencement, in the year 1740, to the close of the year 1808 ; comprising all the remarkable incidents which took place at their missionary stations during that period ; interspersed with anecdotes, historical facts, speeches of Indians, and other interesting matter
The political writings of Thomas Paine : secretary to the Committee of Foreign Affairs in the American Revolution : to which is prefixed a brief sketch of the author's life
Volume I chapters: Sketch of the Life of Thomas Paine // Common Sense // Epistle to the Quakers // "The Crisis" numbers 1 through 16 // Public Good. On The Claim of Virginia to the Western Territory // Letter to the abbe Raynal // Dissertations on government , the affairs of the bank , and paper money // Miscellaneous
Volume II chapters: Prospects of the Rubicon // Rights of man Part 1. Being an answer to Mr Burke 's attack on the French Revolution // Rights of Man Part 2. Combining principles and practice // Letter to theauthors of The Republican // Letter to the abbe Sieyes // Address to the Addressers // Letters to Lord Onslow // Dissertation on First Principles of government // Speech delivered to the French National Convention // Letter to Mr Secretary Dundas // The Decline and Fall of the English system of Finance // Letter to the People of France // Reasons for preserving the life of Louis Capet as delivered to the national convention // Agrarian justice, opposed to agrarian law, and to agrarian monopoly.
John Sanderson's name appears as above on t.-p. of v. 1-4.
Vols. 1-2 edited by John Sanderson, v. 3-6 by Robert Wain, jr. v. 7-9 are without editor's name, but were edited by Henry D. Gilpin, according to statement in Mrs. Eliza Gilpin's Memorial of Henry D. Gilpin, Phildelphia, 1860, p. 194. Volumes numbered on the half-titles.
A list of authors of the biographies (originally published in the New York times) may be found in Proc. of Mass. hist. soc., 1876-1877 [v. 15] p. 393.
Contents
John Hancock (v.1) ; Benjamin Franklin, George Wythe, Francis Hopkinson, Robert Treat Paine (v.2) ; Edward Rutledge, Lyman Hall, Oliver Wolcott, Richard Stockton, Button Gwinnett, Josiah Bartlett, Philip Livingston, Roger Sherman (v.3) ; Thomas Heyward, George Read, William Williams, Samuel Huntington, William Floyd, George Walton, George Clymer, Benjamin Rush (v.4) ; Thomas Lynch, Jr., Matthew Thornton, William Whipple, John Witherspoon, Robert Morris (v.5) ; Arthur Middleton, Abraham Clark, Francis Lewis, John Penn. James Wilson, Carter Braxton, John Morton, Stephen Hopkins, Thomas McKean (v.6) ; Thomas Jefferson, William Hooper, James Smith, Charles Carroll, Thomas Nelson Jr., Joseph Hewes (v.7) ; Elbridge Gerry, Cesar Rodney, Benjamin Harrison, William Paca, George Ross, John Adams (v.8) ; Richard Henry Lee, George Taylor, John Hart, Lewis Morris, Thomas Stone, Francis Lightfoot Lee, Samuel Chase, William Ellery, Samuel Adams (v.9).
allen Liebhabern der Wahrheit zur Prèufung ihres Glaubens und zur Befèorderung ihrer Nachfolge in der Lehre unsers Herrn und Heilandes Jesu Christi. Durch Johannes Herr.
Poetischer himmelsweg, oder kleine, geistliche lieder-sammlung, zum gebrauch des öffentlichen und häuslichen Gottesdienstes, und erbauung aller Gottliebenden seelen jeder confession
Die heilige liebe Gottes und die unheilige naturliebe nach ihren unterschiedenen wirkungen, in XLIV anmuthigen sinnbildern und erbaulichen versen vorgestellet
Aus dem französischen der Madame I.M.B. de la Mothe Guion truelich verdeutschet und mit ferneren betrachtungen, aus ihren sämmtlichen biblischen schriften erläutert, von G.T. St.
Charter and by-laws of the Athenæum of Philadelphia, to which are added, a list of the directors, stockholders, and annual visitors, and of persons who have presented to, or deposited at the athenæum, books, maps, medals, &c. Together with a catalogue of the books, maps, &c. belonging to the institution
Trial of John Lechler for the murder of his wife, Mary Lechler : before the Court of Oyer and Terminer, held for the county of Lancaster, on the nineteenth day of August, 1822 : containing all the evidence with the particulars of the murder of Mrs. Haag : including the speeches of counsel, the charge and sentence of the court
With: History of the rise, progress & downfall of Know-nothingism in Lancaster County / by two expelled members. Lancaster, Pa., 1856 -- The Goss-Udderzook tragedy / Baltimore Gazette. Baltimore : Baltimore, 1873.
MacKenzie's five thousand receipts in all the useful and domestic arts : constituting a complete practical library ... : a new American, from the latest London edition : with numerous and important additions generally : and the medical part carefully revised and adapted to the climate of the U. States : and also a new and most copious index
