William Penn, the Founder of PennsylvaniaHodder and Stoughton, 1882 - 364 páginas |
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Página 268 - Nevertheless, I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love. Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.
Página 175 - I have great love and regard toward you, and desire to win and gain your love and friendship by a kind, just, and peaceable life ; and the people I send are of the same mind, and shall in all things behave themselves accordingly.
Página 218 - Her Majesty's Maids of Honour having acquainted me that they designe to employ you and Mr. Walden in making a composition with the Relations of the Maids of Taunton for the high Misdemeanour they have been guilty of, I do at their request hereby let you know that His Majesty has been pleased to give their Fines to the said Maids of Honour, and therefore recommend it to Mr. Walden and you to make the most advantageous composition you can in their behalfe. " I am, sir, your humble servant,
Página 95 - 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 favor 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...
Página 169 - Sylvania, and they added Penn to it, and though I much opposed it, and went to the king to have it struck out and altered, he said it was past, and would take it upon him ; nor could twenty guineas move the...
Página 95 - ^'gained, and in a pleasant tone said to me, ' This is owing to you; for you "put it into my head by the question you put to me at Chalfont, which before I had not thought of.
Página 272 - The author blesseth God for his retirement, and kisses that gentle hand which led him into it ; for, though it should prove barren to the world, it can never do so to him. " He has now had some time he could call his own, — a property he was never so much master of before...
Página 196 - I say little of the town itself, because a plat-form will be shewn you by my agent, in which those who are purchasers of me, will find their names and interests. But this I will say for the good providence of God, that of all the many places I have seen in the world, I remember not one better seated; so that it seems to me to have been appointed for a town...
Página 193 - I kept, but trouble for what I parted with. It is more than a worldly title or patent that hath clothed me in this place. Keep thy place : I am in mine', and have served the God of the whole earth since I have been in it.
Página 191 - I have had occasion to be in council with them upon treaties for land, and to adjust the terms of trade...