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OF THE

PRIVATE AND PUBLIC LIFE

OF

WILLIAM PENN;

WHO SETTLED

THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA,

AND FOUNDED

THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA.

BY THOMAS CLARKSON, M. A.

TWO VOLUMES IN ONES

VOL. I.

DOVER, N. H.

SAMUEL C. STEVENS, WASHINGTON-STREET.

1827.

MON

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To

the right honourable

HENRY RICHARD, LORD HOLLAND,

Baron of Holland in Lincolnshire,
and

of Foxley in Wilts,
these

MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE OF WILLIAM PENN, the first Statesman,

who, banishing political expediency,

founded his public conduct

solely on the principles of justice,
by which he furnished a model of government
capable of producing to his own people

a superior degree of morality and happiness, and ensuring to foreigners connected with the same, peace, security, moral improvement, and the rights of men,

are inscribed

entirely out of respect

to his lordship's own political conduct,

once as in the administration of the kingdom,

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