Caspipina's Letters: Containing Observations on a Variety of Subjects, Literary, Moral, and Religious, المجلد 1

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R. Crutt Well, and sold by E. and C. Dilly and J. Phillips, London, 1777
 

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الصفحة 13 - State House,' as it is called, is a large plain building, two stories high. The lower story is divided into two large rooms, in one of which the Provincial Assembly meet and in the other the Supreme Court of Judicature is held. The upper story consists of a long gallery, which is generally used for public entertainments, and two rooms adjoining it, one of which is appropriated for the Governor and his Council ; the other, I believe, is yet unoccupied. In one of the wings, which join the main building...
الصفحة 89 - Nay, they go so far, as to admit of works of supererogation ; and declare, that a man may do much more than he is in justice or equity obliged to do ; and that his superabundant works may, therefore, be applied to the salvation of others.
الصفحة 129 - hide their diminished heads," lost in a superior lustre. I see learning stripped of all scholastic pedantry, and religion restored to gospel purity. I see the last efforts of a powerful Providence exerted in order to reclaim our wandering race from the paths of ignorance and error. I see the setting rays of the Sun of Righteousness shining forth with seven-fold lustre to the utmost bourn of this Western Continent.
الصفحة 83 - Philadelphia (sometimes, as I have been informed, there being above one hundred in a company) carrying down the produce of the country, and returning with all kinds of stores and merchandise.
الصفحة 95 - The performers sat with their heads reclined, their countenances solemn and dejected, their faces pale and emaciated from their manner of living, their clothing exceeding white and quite picturesque, and their music such as thrilled to the very soul I almost began to think myself in the world of spirits, and that the objects before me were ethereal.
الصفحة 87 - The men and women have separate habitations and distinct governments. For these purposes they have erected two large wooden buildings, one of which is occupied by the brethren, the other by the sisters of the society ; and in each of them there is a banqueting room, and an apartment for public worship ; for the brethren and sisters do not meet together, even at their devotions. They...
الصفحة 85 - ... of the Dominican friars. The men do not shave the head or beard. The men and women have separate habitations and distinct governments. For these purposes they...
الصفحة 137 - I am told he is much esteemed by all denominations of Christians in this City, for his prudence, his moderation, his known attachment to British liberty and his unaffected pious labours among the people to whom he officiates.
الصفحة 13 - You would be astonished, my Lord, at the general taste for books, which prevails among all orders and ranks of people in this city. The librarian assured me, that, for one person of distinction and fortune, there were twenty tradesmen that frequented this library.
الصفحة 89 - Chrift, by his meritorious furterings, became the Redeemer of mankind in general, fo each individual of the human race, by a life of abftinence and reftraint, may work out his own falvation. Nay, they go fo far as to admit of works of fupererogation ; and declare, that a man may do much more than he is in juftice or equity obliged to do; and that his fuperabundant works may therefore be - applied to the Cent.

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