The True William PennJ.B. Lippincott, 1899 - 392 Seiten |
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... doubt , plain people , and when they married were in moderate circum- stances . The biographers describe Penn's birth- place near the Tower , as if his parents occupied the whole house ; but it seems they only lodged there . Pepys , who ...
... doubt , plain people , and when they married were in moderate circum- stances . The biographers describe Penn's birth- place near the Tower , as if his parents occupied the whole house ; but it seems they only lodged there . Pepys , who ...
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... life . Commerce and shipping gave good opportunities in those days for making a fortune ; and Giles Penn no doubt was anxious to restore his family position , and even to make it better than it had been 43 ADMIRAL PENN.
... life . Commerce and shipping gave good opportunities in those days for making a fortune ; and Giles Penn no doubt was anxious to restore his family position , and even to make it better than it had been 43 ADMIRAL PENN.
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... - ting out an anchor to windward in case the king should return . Penn went farther than any of them , and overstepped all bounds . He , no doubt , saw that the parliamentary cause was gradually waning , and he 51 ADMIRAL PENN.
... - ting out an anchor to windward in case the king should return . Penn went farther than any of them , and overstepped all bounds . He , no doubt , saw that the parliamentary cause was gradually waning , and he 51 ADMIRAL PENN.
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... doubt , that the offer must necessarily be refused , and that Penn was merely placing his great anchor to windward for future contingencies . So he allowed * His son William , with amusing vagueness , has attempted to ex- plain his ...
... doubt , that the offer must necessarily be refused , and that Penn was merely placing his great anchor to windward for future contingencies . So he allowed * His son William , with amusing vagueness , has attempted to ex- plain his ...
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... doubt , heard many edifying accounts of it . Indeed , it is impossible to find in Penn during his youth any trace of Church of England teaching . His bent was radically the other way ; and it is highly probable that it was started by ...
... doubt , heard many edifying accounts of it . Indeed , it is impossible to find in Penn during his youth any trace of Church of England teaching . His bent was radically the other way ; and it is highly probable that it was started by ...
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Seite 189 - I have, and for my business here, know that after many waitings, watchings, solicitings and disputes in council, this day my country was confirmed to me under the great seal of England, with large powers and privileges, by the name of Pennsylvania, a name the king would give it in honour of my father.
Seite 261 - James had always been his friend, and his father's friend; and that in gratitude he himself was the King's, and did ever, as much as in him lay, influence him to his true interest.
Seite 79 - After dinner comes Mr. Pen to visit me, and stayed an hour talking with me. I perceive something of learning he hath got, but a great deal, if not too much, of the vanity of the French garbe and affected manner of speech and gait - I fear all real profit he hath made of his travel will signify little.
Seite 130 - Son William, I am weary of the world ; I would not live over my days again, if I could command them with a wish ; for the snares of life are greater than the fears of death.
Seite 89 - At night comes Mrs. Turner to see us ; and there, among other talk, she tells me that Mr. William Pen, who is lately come over from Ireland, is a Quaker again, or some very melancholy thing ; that he cares for no company, nor comes into any : which is a pleasant thing, after his being abroad so long, and his father such a hypocritical rogue, and at this time an Atheist.
Seite 125 - I can never urge the fundamental laws of England, but you cry, " Take him away ! take him away !" But it is no wonder, since the Spanish Inquisition hath so great a place in the recorder's heart. God Almighty, who is just, will judge you all for these things.
Seite 54 - Though my exercises and troubles were very great, yet were they not so continual but that I had some intermissions, and was sometimes brought into such a heavenly joy, that I thought I had been in Abraham's bosom.
Seite 125 - Till now I never understood the reason of the policy and prudence of the Spaniards in suffering the Inquisition among them; and certainly it will never be well with us till something like unto the Spanish Inquisition be in England.
Seite 201 - Indians must live in love as long as the sun gave light; which done, another made a speech to the Indians, in the name of all the...
Seite 123 - Penn. Certainly, if the common law be so hard to be understood, it is far from being very common. But if the Lord Coke, in his 'Institutes,' be of any consideration, he tells us, 'That common law is common right; and that common right is the great charter privileges, confirmed 9 Hen.