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THE LIFE

OF

WILLIAM PENN.

9

THE LIFE

OF

William Penn,

COMPILED FROM.

THE USUAL AUTHORITIES

AND ALSO

MANY ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPTS.

BY MRS HUGHS,

Author of Ornaments Discovered, The Cousins, &c.

When we look back upon the great men who have gone before
us in every path of glory, we feel our eye turn from the career of
war and ambition and involuntarily rest upon those who have
displayed the great truths of religion, who have investigated the
laws of social welfare, or extended the sphere of human know--
ledge.
ALISON.

Philadelphia:

PRINTED BY JAMES KAY, JUN. FOR

Carey, Lea & Carey, Towar & Hogan, John Grigg,
Uriah Hunt, Robert H. Small, M'Carty & Davis,
Kimber & Sharpless, J. Crissy.

BOSTON: Munroe & Francis.

1828.

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Eastern District of Pennsylvania, to wit:

BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the seventh day of April, in the fiftysecond year of the independence of the United States of America, A.D. 1828, James Kay, Jun. of the said district has deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit:

"The Life of William Penn, compiled from the usual authorities, and also many original manuscripts. By Mrs Hughs, Author of Ornaments Discovered, The Cousins, &c.

"When we look back upon the great men who have gone before us in every path of glory, we feel our eye turn from the career of war and ambition and involuntarily rest upon those who have displayed the great truths of religion, who have investigated the laws of social welfare, or extended the sphere of human knowledge.-ALISON."

In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, "An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned ;" and also to the act, entitled, "An act supplementary to an act, entitled, An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned,' and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints."

D. CALDWELL,

Clerk of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

ΤΟ

Peter Stephen Du Ponceau, Esq.

THIS

LITTLE VOLUME

IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED

BY THE AUTHOR.

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