 | Robert Proud - 1797 - 522 pages
...they are people proper and ftrong of body, v-^v^y fo they have fine children, and almofl every houfe full; rare to find one of them without three or four boys, and as many girls; fome, fix, feven and eight fons. And I muft do them that right j I fee few young men more fober and... | |
 | William Penn - 1825 - 632 pages
...degenerate from the old friendship between both kingdoms. As they are people proper, and strong of bpdy, so they have fine children, and almost every house...and I must do them that right, I see few young men more sober and laborious. XXIX. The Dutch have a meeting-place for religious worship at Newcastle ;... | |
 | James Grahame - 1827 - 546 pages
...who have made no great progress in culture ; desiring rather to have enough, than plenty or traffic. As they are people proper and strong of body, so they...have fine children, and almost every house full." Proud, i. 260, 1. The Dutch had one, and the Swedes three meeting-houses for divine worship in the... | |
 | James Grahame - 1827 - 548 pages
...no great progress in culture ; desiring rather to have enough, than plenty or traffic. As they arc people proper and strong of body, so they have fine children, and almost every house full." Proud, i. 260, 1. The Dutch had one, and the Swedes three meeting-houses for divine worship in the... | |
 | Samuel Hazard - 1828 - 434 pages
...furnishing them with the means of profit, as skins and furs, for rum, and such strong liquors. As they are a people proper and strong of body, so they have fine children, and almost every house full; 'tis rare to find one of them without three or four boys, and as many girls; some have six, seven,... | |
 | Michael Thomas Sadler - 1830 - 712 pages
...benevolent William Penn asserts " that almost every house was full of children, it being," he observes, " rare to find one of them without three " or four boys, and as many girls ; some six, seven, " and eight sons8." To come later down, Dr. Franklin, in his celebrated essay, which he wrote about three parts... | |
 | 1830 - 522 pages
...furnishing them with the means of profit, as skins and furs, for rum, and such strong liquors. As they are a people proper and strong of body, so they have fine children, and almost every house full; 'tis rare to find one of them without three or four boys, and as many girls; some have six, seven,... | |
 | Carl David Arfwedson - 1834 - 888 pages
...culture or propagation of fruit trees, as if they desired rather to have enough than plenty or traffic. As they are people proper and strong of body, so they...find one of them without three or four boys, and as * Of this fortification there is no trace. It was situated near Wilmington, twenty-seven miles south... | |
 | 1834 - 320 pages
...they are people proper and strong of body, 10 that they have fine children, and almost every iMUiT full; rare to find one of them without three or four...some six, seven, and eight sons. And I must do them the justice to say, I see few young men more sober and laborious." From this, the reader will easily... | |
 | Thomas Campanius Holm - 1834 - 192 pages
...authority, and kind behaviour to the English. They do not degenerate from the old friendship between both kingdoms. As they are people proper and strong of body, so that they have fine children, and almost every house full; rare to find one of them without three or... | |
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I must needs commend their respect to authority, and kind behaviour to the English; they do not degenerate from the old friendship between both kingdoms. As they are people proper and strong of body, so they have fine children, and almost every house... 
