 Rival nations and hostile sects have agreed in canonizing him. England is proud of his name. A great commonwealth beyond the Atlantic regards him with a reverence similar to that which the Athenians felt for Theseus, and the Romans for Quirinus. The respectable...  The Lakeside Monthly - Page 1471872Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Clarkson - Pennsylvania - 1849 - 444 pages
...name, " is a task which requires some courage; for he is rather a mythical than a historical person. Rival nations and hostile sects have agreed in canonizing...Quirinus. The respectable society of which he was a member honours him as an apostle. By pious men of other persuasions he is generally regarded as a bright pattern... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1849 - 850 pages
...Penn is a task which requires some courage ; for he is rather a mythical than a historical person. Rival nations and hostile sects have agreed in canonizing...proud of his name. A great commonwealth beyond the * Peim's visits to Whitehall, and levees at Kensington, are described with great vivacity, though in... | |
 | Christianity - 1849 - 606 pages
...Penn is a task which requires some courage ; for he is rather a mythical than a historical person. Rival nations and hostile sects have agreed in canonizing him. England is proud of him. A great commonwealth beyond the Atlantic regards him with a reverence similar to that which the... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1850 - 714 pages
...Penn is a task which requires some courage ; for he is rather a mythical than a historical person. Rival nations and hostile sects have agreed in canonizing...Quirinus. The respectable society of which he was a member honours him as an apostle. By pious men of other persuasions he is generally regarded as a bright pattern... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1850 - 552 pages
...concerning Penn is a task which requires some courage; for he is rather a mythical than a historical person. Rival nations and hostile sects have agreed in canonizing...Quirinus. The respectable society of which he was a member honours him as an apostle. By pious men of other persuasions he is generally regarded as a bright pattern... | |
 | Robert Aspland - 1850 - 794 pages
...Penn is a task which requires some courage ; for he is rather a mythical than a historical person. Rival nations and hostile sects have agreed in canonizing him. England is proud of his • Memoirs of the Public and Private Life of William Penn. By Thomas Clarkson, MA New Edition, with... | |
 | William Hepworth Dixon - 1851 - 520 pages
...more than a century and a half has ratified. " Rival nations," he says, "have agreed in canonising him. England is proud of his name. A great Commonwealth...Quirinus. The respectable Society of which he was 1 History of England, vol. i. 501. * Ibid. i. £06. a member honours him as an apostle. By pious men... | |
 | William Penn - Society of Friends - 1857 - 170 pages
...reading of the verdict which more than a century and a half has ratified. " Rival nations," he says, " have agreed in canonizing him. England, is proud of...Quirinus. The respectable society of which he was a member honours him as an apostle. By pious men of other persuasions he is generally regarded as a bright pattern... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1857 - 348 pages
...Penn is a task which requires some courage, for he is rather a mythical than an historical person. Rival nations and hostile sects have agreed in canonizing...that which the Athenians felt for Theseus, and the Eomans for Quirinus. The respectable society of which he was a member honours him as an apostle. By... | |
 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1858 - 588 pages
...rather a mythical than a historical person. Rival nations and hostile sects have agreed in canonising him. England is proud of his name. A great commonwealth...Quirinus. The respectable society of which he was a member honours him as an apostle. By pious men of other persuasions he is generally regarded as a bright pattern... | |
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