Statue of Stephen Girard: Records of Its Erection and Unveiling, City Hall Plaza, Philadelphia, May 20, 1897George Peabody Rupp J.B. Lippincott, 1897 - 172 sider |
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66 Section Aldermen and citizens annuity or yearly bank Board of Directors Bordeaux building Bush Hill Captain Charles H Chief Marshal citizens of Philadelphia city of Philadelphia City Trusts COMMITTEE ON GIRARD courage DANIEL H decease Delaware Bay Directors of City encrease erected feet five hundred floor Frank Frederick George George W Girard College Alumni GIRARD STATUE give and bequeath half yearly payments Harry Henry H hereby Hesley honor hospital hundred dollars institution irreligion James John Joseph LOUIS WAGNER mariner and merchant MASSEY RHIND Mayor Aldermen Mayor of Philadelphia memory ment orphans paid in half parade Passyunk Township Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Hospital Peter Helm poor Poplar Street PUPILS OF GIRARD purposes real estate Robert Samuel Schuylkill soul STATUE OF STEPHEN Stephen Girard sum of five testator thereof Thomas tion to-day twenty thousand dollars unveiling vessel walls Water street William H yearly sum yellow fever
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Side 49 - Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him : I will set him on high, because he hath known my name. He shall call upon me, and I will answer him : I will be with him in trouble ; I will deliver him, and honour him.
Side 49 - He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust." Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.
Side 142 - My desire is, that all the instructors and teachers in the college shall take pains to instil into the minds of the scholars the purest principles of morality, so that, on their entrance into active life, they may, from inclination and habit, evince benevolence toiuards their fellow creatures, and a love of truth, sobriety and industry, adopting at the same time such religious tenets as their matured reason may enable them to prefer.
Side 154 - Will for and as his Last Will and Testament and that at the doing thereof he was of sound mind memory and understanding to the best of their knowledge.
Side 132 - Pennsylvania charged as aforesaid) unto "the Mayor, Aldermen and Citizens of Philadelphia, their successors and assigns, in trust, to and for the several uses, intents and purposes hereinafter mentioned and declared of and concerning the same, that is to say; so far as regards my real estate in Pennsylvania, in trust, that no part thereof shall be ever sold or alienated by the said Mayor, Aldermen and Citizens of Philadelphia...
Side 143 - If the income, arising from that part of the said sum of two millions of dollars, remaining after the construction and furnishing of the College and out-buildings, shall, owing to the increase of the number of orphans applying for admission, or other cause...
Side 148 - To enable the said corporation to improve the city property, and the general appearance of the city itself; and, in effect to diminish the burden of taxation, now most oppressive especially on those, who are the least able to bear it...
Side 131 - XX. And, whereas, I have been for a long time impressed with the importance of educating the poor, and of placing them, by the early cultivation of their minds, and the development of their moral principles, above the many temptations to which, through poverty and ignorance, they are exposed; and I am particularly desirous to provide for such a number of poor male white orphan children, as can be trained in one institution, a better education, as well as a more comfortable maintenance, than they...
Side 153 - Signed, sealed, published, and declared by the said Stephen Girard, as and for his last will and testament, in the presence of us, who have, at his request, hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses thereto, in the presence of the said testator and of each other, Feb.
Side 143 - To lay out, regulate, curb, light and pave a passage or street, on the east part of the city of Philadelphia, fronting the river Delaware, not less than twenty-one feet wide, and to be called Delaware Avenue...