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Being frequently censur’d and condemn’d by different Persons for printing Things which they say ought not to be printed, I have sometimes thought it might be necessary to make a standing Apology for my self, and publish it once a Year, to be read upon all Occasions of that Nature. Much Business has hitherto hindered…

We hear from North-Carolina, That Governor Burrington is arrived there, accompanied by several Gentlemen, who are to have the chief Places of Profit and Trust in that Government. The Pennsylvania Gazette, May 27, 1731

Mors sola fatetur Quantula sunt hominum corpuscula —— Juv. Post obitum bene facta manent, aeternaq; virtus Non metuit Stygiis nec rapiatur aquis. Among all the innumerable Species of Animals which inhabit the Air, Earth and Water, so exceedingly different in their Production, their Properties, and the Manner of their Existence, and so varied in Form,…

As a Nail sticketh fast between the Joinings of the Stones, so doth Sin stick close between Buying and Selling. Apocrypha. We have received the two following Letters, relating to our Gazette of the 19th past. The first is from a Shopkeeper, and the other from a Merchant. To the Author of the GAZETTE. SIR,…

Veritas Luce clarior. A Friend of mine was the other Day cheapening some Trifles at a Shopkeepers, and after a few Words, they agreed on a Price; at the lapping up this Purchase, the Mistress of the Shop told him, People were grown very hard, for she actually lost by every thing she sold: How…