William PennHoughton, Mifflin, 1901 - 140 Seiten |
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... England ; and the next year , a " general of the sea " in the Dutch war . This was in Cromwell's time , when the naval strength of England was being mightily increased . A young man of energy and ability , acquainted with the sea , was ...
... England ; and the next year , a " general of the sea " in the Dutch war . This was in Cromwell's time , when the naval strength of England was being mightily increased . A young man of energy and ability , acquainted with the sea , was ...
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... England was taking sides in the con- tention between the Parliament and the king . The navy was in sympathy with the Parliament ; and the young officer , though his personal inclinations were towards the king , went with his associates ...
... England was taking sides in the con- tention between the Parliament and the king . The navy was in sympathy with the Parliament ; and the young officer , though his personal inclinations were towards the king , went with his associates ...
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... England , William Penn the younger had been living with all possible quietness in the green country , saying his prayers in Wanstead Church , and learning his lessons in Chigwell School . Wanstead Church was devotedly Puri- tan . The ...
... England , William Penn the younger had been living with all possible quietness in the green country , saying his prayers in Wanstead Church , and learning his lessons in Chigwell School . Wanstead Church was devotedly Puri- tan . The ...
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... England . For his part in this pleasant errand , he had been knighted and made Commissioner of Admiralty and Governor of Kinsale . Thus his ambitions were being happily attained . He had retrieved and improved his fortunes , and had ...
... England . For his part in this pleasant errand , he had been knighted and made Commissioner of Admiralty and Governor of Kinsale . Thus his ambitions were being happily attained . He had retrieved and improved his fortunes , and had ...
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... England of his day with the keenest eyes of any man of the times , and remarked upon what he saw with the most honest and candid speech . A man of the plain people , like most of the prophets and apostles , the of- fenses which chiefly ...
... England of his day with the keenest eyes of any man of the times , and remarked upon what he saw with the most honest and candid speech . A man of the plain people , like most of the prophets and apostles , the of- fenses which chiefly ...
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Seite 71 - I choose to solve the controversy with this small distinction, and it belongs to all three : any government is free to the people under it (whatever be the frame) where the laws rule and the people are a party to those laws, and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or confusion.
Seite 92 - And thou, Philadelphia, the virgin settlement of this province, named before thou wert born, what love, what care, what service, and what travail has there been to bring thee forth and preserve thee from such as would abuse and defile thee!
Seite 71 - ... to support power in reverence with the people and to secure the people from the abuse of power; that they may be free by their just obedience, and the magistrates honorable for their just administration. For liberty without obedience is confusion, and obedience without liberty is slavery.
Seite 50 - After I had, with the best attention, read it through, I made him another visit, and returned him his book, with due acknowledgment of the favour he had done me in communicating it to me. He asked me how I liked it, and what I thought of it ; which I modestly but freely told him ; and after some further discourse about it, I pleasantly said to him, " Thou hast said much here of Paradise Lost, but what hast thou to say of Paradise Found?
Seite 92 - My soul prays to God for thee, that thou mayest stand in the day of trial, that thy children may be blessed of the Lord, and thy people saved by His power.
Seite 80 - I do charge you before the Lord God and his holy angels, that you be lowly, diligent, and tender, fearing God, loving the people, and hating covetousness. Let justice have its impartial course, and the law free passage. Though to your loss, protect no man against it ; for you are not above the law, but the law above you. Live, therefore, the lives yourselves you would have the people live, and then you have right and boldness to punish the transgressor.
Seite 116 - ... if any of the sovereignties that constitute these imperial states shall refuse to submit their claim or pretensions to them, or to abide and perform the judgment thereof, and seek their remedy by arms, or delay their compliance beyond the time prefixed in their resolutions, all the other sovereignties, united as one strength, shall compel the submission and performance of the sentence, with damages to the suffering party, and charges to the sovereignties that obliged their submission.
Seite 79 - My DEAR WIFE AND CHILDREN: — My love, which neither sea, nor land, nor death itself, can extinguish or lessen toward you, most endearedly visits you -with eternal embraces, and will abide with you for ever • and may the God of my life watch over you and bless you, and do you good in this world and for ever...
Seite 72 - For the matters of liberty and privilege, I purpose that which is extraordinary, and to leave myself and successors no power of doing mischief, that the will of one man may not hinder the good of a whole country...
Seite 65 - ... northward, then, by the said river, so far as it doth extend; and from the head of the said river, the eastern bounds...