The Life of William Penn, the Founder of Pennsylvania: With Numerous Illustrative Anecdotes and Embellishments
John Frost
Hardcover
(Forgotten Books, March 15, 2018)
Excerpt from The Life of William Penn, the Founder of Pennsylvania: With Numerous Illustrative Anecdotes and EmbellishmentsThe work is submitted to the public in the hope that Friends as well as others will admit the desire at least of the author to do full justice to one. In true respect for whom, he yields to no man. The reader would smile were a list produced of all the works to which reference has been had in preparing this little volume; and the aid which has been derived from Clarkson and Watson is too obvious to need mention, except in the form of acknowledgment. We indulge the h0pe that this effort may prompt some person of leisure, and habits of research, to prepare what has not yet been written, a full biography of William Penn, that his position in the history of our State, and among the statesmen of his era, may be correctly exhibited, before his correspondence and other private papers and me morials have passed beyond the reach of the historian. Much is now locked up in England, which those in whose custody it remains, owe it to the world to open to the biographer.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.