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A brief state of the province of Pennsylvania, in which the conduct of their assemblies for several years past is impartially examined, ... To which is annexed, an easy plan for restoring quiet in the public measures of that province, and defeating the ambitious views of the French ... In a letter from a gentleman who has resided many years in Pennsylvania, to his friend in London.
Smith, William, 1727-1803.Date: 1755- Books
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Remarks on a second publication of B. Henry Latrobe, engineer, said to be printed by order of the committee of the Councils; (of the city) and distributed among the members of the legislature.
Date: 1799]- Books
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Indian songs of peace: with a proposal, in a prefatory epistle, for erecting Indian schools. And a postscript by the editor, introducing Yariza, an Indian maid's letter, to the principal ladies of the province and city of New-York. By the author of the American fables.
Smith, William, 1727-1803.Date: 1752- Books
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The American magazine and monthly chronicle for the British colonies. ... By a society of gentlmen.
Date: [1758]- Books
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An answer to Mr. Franklin's Remarks, on a late protest.
Smith, William, 1727-1803.Date: M.DCC.LXIV. [1764]- Books
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An oration in memory of General Montgomery, and of the officers and soldiers, who fell with him, December 31, 1775, beeore [sic] Quebec; drawn up (and delivered February 19th, 1776.) At the desire of the Honorable Continental Congress, by William Smith, D.D. provost of the College and Academy of Philadelphia. [Four lines of verse]
Smith, William, 1727-1803.Date: M,DCC,LXXVI. [1776]- Books
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An historical account of the expedition against the Ohio Indians in the year 1764 under the command of Henry Bouquet / Including his transactions with the Indians, relative to the delivery of their prisoners, and the preliminaries of peace. With an introductory account of the preceding campaign, and battle at Bushy-run. To which are annexed military papers, containing reflections on the war with the savages; a method of forming frontier settlements; some account of the Indian country; with a list of nations, fighting men, towns, distances, and different routs. The whole illustrated with a map and copper plates. Published, from authentic documents, by a lover of his country [i.e. W. Smith].
Smith, William, 1727-1803.Date: 1766- Books
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A sermon on the present situation of American affairs. Preached in Christ-Church, June 23, 1775. At the request of the officers of the Third Battallion of the City of Philadelphia, and District of Southwark. By William Smith, D.D. provost of the college in that city.
Smith, William, 1727-1803.Date: M,DCC,LXXV. [1775]- Books
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An examination of the Connecticut claim to lands in Pennsylvania. With an appendix, containing extracts and copies taken from original papers.
Smith, William, 1727-1803.Date: MDCCLXXIV. [1774]- Books
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Antwort auf Hrn. Fränklins Anmerckungen über ein ohnlängst herausgekommenes Protestations-Schreiben, übersetzt aus dem Englischen.
Smith, William, 1727-1803.Date: im Jahr 1765- Books
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A Fragment of the chronicles of Nathan Ben Saddi; a Rabbi of the Jews. Lately discovered in the ruins of Herculaneum: and translated from the original, into the Italian language. By the command of the King of the Two-Sicilies and now published in English.
Date: in the year of the vulgar aera, 5707 [i.e., 1758]- Books
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A general idea of the College of Mirania; with a sketch of the method of teaching science and religion, in the several classes: and some account of its rise, establishment and buildings. Address'd more immediately to the consideration of the trustees nominated, by the Legislature, to receive proposals, &c. relating to the establishment of a college in the province of New-York. [Three lines of quotations in Latin]
Smith, William, 1727-1803.Date: 1753. (Price one shilling and six pence)- Books
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An humble apology for the Quakers, addressed to great and small. Occasioned by certain gross abuses and imperfect vindications of that people, relative to the late public fast. To which are added observations on a new pamphlet, intituled A brief view of the conduct of Pensylvania for the year 1755. ... And also a much fairer method pointed out, than that contained in the brief state of Pennsylvania to prevent the incroachments of the French, and restore quiet to the province.
Date: MDCCLVI [1756]- Books
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An historical account of the expedition against the Ohio Indians, in the year 1764. Under the command of Henry Bouquet, Esq: colonel of foot, and now brigadier general in America. Including his transactions with the Indians, relative to the delivery of their prisoners, and the preliminaries of peace. With an introductory account of the preceeding campaign, and battle at Bushy-Run. To which are annexed military papers, containing reflections on the war with the savages; a method of forming frontier settlements; some account of the Indian country, with a list of nations, fighting men, towns, distances and different routs. The whole illustrated with a map and copper-plates. Published from authentic documents, by a lover of his country.
Smith, William, 1727-1803.Date: M.DCC.LXV. [1765]- Books
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Unanimity and public spirit. A sermon preached at Carlisle, and some other Episcopal churches, in the counties of York and Cumberland, soon after General Braddock's defeat. Published by particular request. By the Reverend Mr. Thomas Barton, missionary to the said churches. To which is prefixed, a letter from the Reverend Mr. Smith, provost of the College of Philadelphia, concerning the office and duties of a Protestant ministry, especially in times of public calamity and danger.
Barton, Thomas, 1730-1780.Date: 1755- Books
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An account of the proceedings of the Ilinois and Ouabache Land Companies, in pursuance of their purchases made of the independent natives, July 5th, 1773, and 18th October, 1775.
United Illinois and Wabash Land Companies.Date: 1796- Books
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Eulogium on Benjamin Franklin, L.L.D. President of the American Philosophical Society, Held at Philadelphia, for Promoting Useful Knowledge, fellow of the Royal Society of London, member of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris, of the Royal Society at Gottingen, the Batavian Society in Holland, and of many other literary societies in Europe and America; late minister plenipotentiary for the United States of America at the court of Paris, sometime president, and for more than half a century a revered citizen, of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Delivered Marc 1, 1791, in the German Lutheran Church of the city of Philadelphia, before the American Philosophical Society, and agreeably to their appointment, by William Smith, D.D. one of the vice-presidents of the said society, and provost of the College, and Academy of Philadelphia. The memory of the deceased was honored also, at the delivery of this eulogium, with the presence of the president, Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the corporation, and most of the public bodies, as well as respectable citizens, of Philadelphia.
Smith, William, 1727-1803.Date: 1792- Books
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A true and impartial state of the province of Pennsylvania. Containing, an exact account of the nature of its government; the power of the proprietaries, and their governors; as well those which they derive under the royal grant, as those they have assumed in manifest violation thereof, their father's charter, and the rights of the people: also, the rights and privileges of the Assembly, and people, which they claim under the said grant, charter, and laws of their country, confirmed by the royal approbation. With a true narrative of the dispute between the governors and assemblies, respecting the grants of supplies so often made by the latter, and rejected by the former. In which is demonstrated, by incontestable vouchers, that arbitrary proprietary instructions, have been the true and only cause of the refusal of such supplies, and the late defenceless state of the province. The whole being a full answer to the pamphlets intitled A brief state, and A brief view, &c. of the conduct of Pennsylvania. [Nine lines from Cato's letters]
Galloway, Joseph, 1731-1803.Date: M,DCC,LIX. [1759]- Books
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Ahiman rezon abridged and digested: as a help to all that are, or would be Free and Accepted Masons. To which is added, a sermon, preached in Christ-Church, Philadelphia, at a general communication, celebrated, agreeable to the constitutions, on Monday, December 28, 1778, as the anniversary of St. John the Evangelist. Published by order of the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania, by William Smith, D.D.
Freemasons. Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania.Date: M,DCC,LXXXIII. [1783]- Books
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Cyrus: a tragedy. As it is performed at the Theatre Royal, in Covent-Garden. By John Hoole.
Hoole, John, 1727-1803.Date: 1769- Books
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Dissertatio medica, inauguralis quam sub moderamine viri admodum Reverendi Gulielmi Smith, S.T.P. Collegii et Academiae Philadelphiensis praefecti, ex curatorum auctoritate perillustrium nec non amplissimae collegii et academiae facultatis decreto, Deo optimo maximo annuente, pro gradu doctoris, summisque in medicina honoribus et privilegiis rite et legitime consequendis, eruditorum examini subjectam sustinuit Jacobus Tilton, M.B. Doveriensis apud Delaware, ad diem 28 Junii hor a locoque solitis. [One line in Latin]
Tilton, James, 1745-1822.Date: M.DCC.LXXI. [1771]- Books
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A sermon, on temporal and spiritual salvation: delivered in Christ-Church, Philadelphia, before the Pennsylvania Society of the Cincinnati. By William Smith, D.D. provost of the College and Academy of Philadelphia. Prepared and published at the request of the society.
Smith, William, 1727-1803.Date: M,DCC,XC. [1790]- Books
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A discourse concerning the conversion of the heathen Americans, and the final propagation of Christianity and the sciences to the ends of the earth. In two parts. Part I. Preached before a voluntary convention of the Episcopal clergy of Pennsylvania, and places adjacent, at Philadelphia, May 2d, 1760; and published at their joint request. Part II. Preached before the trustees, masters and scholars of the College and Academy of Philadelphia, at the first anniversary commencement. By William Smith, D.D. provost of the said college and academy.
Smith, William, 1727-1803.Date: MDCCLX. [1760]- Books
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A sermon preached in Christ-Church, Philadelphia, (for the benefit of the poor) by appointment of and before the general communication of Free and Accepted Masons of the state of Pennsylvania, on Monday December 28, 1778. Celebrated, agreeable to their constitution, as the anniversary of St. John the Evangelist. By William Smith, D.D. provost of the College and Academy of Philadelphia.
Smith, William, 1727-1803.Date: MDCCLXXIX. [1779]- Books
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An Historical account of the rise, progress and present state of the canal navigation in Pennsylvania. With an appendix, containing, abstracts of the acts of the Legislature since the year 1790, and their grants of money for improving roads and navigable waters throughou the state; to which is annexed, "an explanatory map." Published by direction of the president and managers of the Schuylkill and Susquehanna, and the Delaware and Schuylkill Navigation Companies. [Twenty two lines of verse]
Date: MDCCXCV. [1795]