This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1847 edition. Excerpt: ...one of his many letters to his friend Robert Turner, then in Dublin, in 1681, when he was the proprietary of Pennsylvania, Penn makes this mysterious reference; "This I cansay, that I had an opening of joy, as to these parts, in the year 1661, at Oxford." With such a revelation waiting to be realized, he might ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1847 edition. Excerpt: ...one of his many letters to his friend Robert Turner, then in Dublin, in 1681, when he was the proprietary of Pennsylvania, Penn makes this mysterious reference; "This I cansay, that I had an opening of joy, as to these parts, in the year 1661, at Oxford." With such a revelation waiting to be realized, he might well renounce the worldly views which his father proposed to him. His father determined on a measure, which has generally been found to have proved itself Memoira of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Vol. L p. 20& very effectual, not only in eradicating gravity and seriousness, but in implanting most opposite tendencies. He sent his son to France, in company with some persons of rank, in 1662, in order that he might be subjected to the accomplishments and gayety, which travel and residence there would be most likely to recommend. Of his stay in Paris he afterwards records one single incident, which vindicates his claim to be alike a gentleman of honor and a Christian. He was attacked in the street, one evening, by a person who was affronted because his salutation of raising the hat, which Penn says he did not see, was not returned. Our young traveller, lacking three years of manhood, (whether armed or not, he does not tell us, ) immediately stood to the combat with his antagonist, and disarmed him. So far, the by-standers beheld a scene which Paris afforded daily; but when the victor had the life of his antagonist in his power, and might, without harm from police or law, have run him through, he was satisfied with returning to him his sword, and the true salutation of Christian forbearance. Of course such a one as Penn took no pleasure in the dissipation of Paris; but the opportunities of wise observation would not VOL. XII. 14 be lost...
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