 I have, and for my business here, know that after many waitings, watchings, solicitings, and disputes in council, this day my country was confirmed to me under the great seal of England, with large powers and privileges, by the name of Pennsylvania ;...  Monthly Review; Or New Literary Journal - Seite 3141814Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | James Harvey Robinson, Charles Austin Beard - 1908 - 440 Seiten
...Charles ings, solicitings, and disputes in council, this day my country n (1681) was confirmed to me under the great seal of England, with large powers...and privileges, by the name of Pennsylvania ; a name the king would give it in honor of my father. I chose New Wales, being, as this, a pretty hilly country... | |
 | Howard Walter Caldwell, Clark Edmund Persinger - 1909 - 512 Seiten
...waitings, watchings. solicitings, and disputes in council, this day my country was confirmed to me . . . with large powers and privileges, by the name of Pennsylvania ; a name the King would give it in honour of my father. I chose New Wales, being, as this, a pretty, hilly country.... | |
 | Rupert Sargent Holland - 1915 - 206 Seiten
...On March 4, 1681, the king signed the charter. Penn wrote, "This day my country was confirmed to me under the great seal of England, with large powers...and privileges, by the name of Pennsylvania ; a name the King would give it in honor of my father. I chose New Wales, being as this is a pretty hilly country,... | |
 | Edwin Wiley, Irving Everett Rines, Albert Bushnell Hart - 1916 - 568 Seiten
...This day, after many waitings, watchings, solicitings, and disputes, my country was confirmed to me under the great seal of England, with large powers...and privileges, by the name of Pennsylvania, a name the king gave it in honor of my father.f I chose New Wales, being a hilly country, and •when the... | |
 | George Philip Krapp - 1925 - 412 Seiten
...1681, printed in Janney's Life, p. 165, Penn remarks that "this day my country was confirmed to me under the great seal of England, with large powers...and privileges, by the name of Pennsylvania, a name the King would give it in honour of my father." Penn preferred the name New Wales, and when a request... | |
 | Abraham Howry Espenshade - 1925 - 388 Seiten
...waitings, watchings, solicitings, and disputes in Council, this day my country was confirmed to me under the great seal of England, with large powers and privileges, by the name of Pennsylvania;1 a name the king would give it in honor of my father.2 I chose New Wales, [that] being,... | |
 | George Patterson Donehoo - 1926 - 614 Seiten
...waitings, watchings, solicitings, and disputes in council, this day my country was confirmed to me under the great Seal of England, with large powers...and privileges, by the name of Pennsylvania, a name the King would give it, in honour of my father. I chose New Wales, being, as this, a pretty hilly country,... | |
 | Anna Lloyd Braithwaite Thomas, Anna Braithwaite Thomas - 1927 - 200 Seiten
...Penn, Chap. XII. Letter from William Penn to Robert Turner. "This day my country was confirmed to me under the great seal of England, with large powers...and privileges, by the name of Pennsylvania; a name the king would give it in honour of my father. I chose New Wales, being, as this, a pretty hilly country."... | |
 | Thomas Allen Glenn - 1970 - 452 Seiten
...in a letter to one Robert Turner, written in 1681, says : " This day my Country was confirmed to me under the Great Seal of England, with large powers...and privileges, by the name of Pennsylvania; a name the King would give it in honor of my father. I chose New Wales, being as this, a pretty hilly country,... | |
 | Jean R. Soderlund - 1983 - 436 Seiten
...5 March 1681, WP wrote to his Irish friend Robert Turner, "This day my country was confirmed to me under the Great Seal of England with large powers and privileges, by the name of Pennsylvania." He asked Turner to circulate word of his charter among fellow Quakers, and added that he would soon... | |
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