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Memoirs of the Private and Public Life of William Penn: Who Settled the ... - Page 108
by Thomas Clarkson - 1827
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The Port Folio

1814 - 640 pages
...still add Penn to it. He offered the under secretary twenty guineas to give up his prejudices, and to consent to change the name; for he feared lest...that all would not do, he went to the king himself to get the name of Penn struck out, or another substituted; but the king said it was passed, and that...
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Monthly Review; Or New Literary Journal

1814 - 572 pages
...still add Penn to it. He offered the under secretary twenty guineas to give up his prejudices, and to consent to change the name; for he feared lest...that all would not do, he went to the king himself to get the name of Penn struck out, or another substituted ; but the king said it was passed, and that...
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The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal

1814 - 578 pages
...still add Penn to it. He offered the under secretary twenty guinea* to give up his prejudices, and to consent to change the name ; for he feared lest...that all would not do, he went to the king himself to get the name of Penn struck out, or another substituted ; but the king said it was passed, and that...
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Monthly Review; Or New Literary Journal

1814 - 572 pages
...still add Penn to it. He offered the under secretary twenty guineas to give up his prejudices, and to consent to change the name ; for he feared lest...that all would not do, he went to the king himself to get the name of Penn struck out, or another substituted ; but the king said it was passed, and that...
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The New Annual Register, Or General Repository of History, Politics, and ...

1814 - 1112 pages
...Mill add Pen n to it. He offered the under .secretary twenty guineas to give up his prejudices, and to consent to> change the name; for he feared lest it should be looked upon ;is vanity in him, and not as a respect in the king, as it truly was, to his father, whom be often...
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Memoirs of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Volume 1

Historical Society of Pennsylvania - 1826 - 452 pages
...the under secretarys to vary the name, for I feared least it should be lookt on us a vanity in me, and not as a respect in the king, as it truly was to my father, whom he often mentions with praise. Thou mayst communicate my graunt to friends, and expect...
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The History and Topography of Dauphin, Cumberland, Franklin, Bedford, Adams ...

Israel Daniel Rupp - 1846 - 612 pages
...the under secretarys to vary the name, for I feared least it should be lookt on as a vanity in me, and not as a respect in the king, as it truly was to my father, whom he often mentions xvith praise. Thou mayjt communicate my graunt to friends, and expect...
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Life of William Penn: The Celebrated Quaker and Founder of Pennsylvania

Joseph Barker - 1847 - 332 pages
...still add Penn to it. He offered the under158 secretary twenty guineas to give up his prejudices, and to consent to change the name ; for he feared lest...as vanity in him, and not as a respect in the King to his father, as it truly was. Finding that all would not do, he went to the King himself to get the...
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Memoirs of the Public and Private Life of William Penn

Thomas Clarkson - 1849 - 444 pages
...still add Penn to it. He offered the Under Secretary twenty guineas to give up his prejudices, and to consent to change the name ; for he feared lest...that all would not do, he went to the King himself to get the name of Penn struck out, or another substituted ; but the King said it was passed, and that...
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Annals of Pennsylvania, from the Discovery of the Delaware

Samuel Hazard - 1850 - 684 pages
...the under-secretaries to vary the name, for I feared lest it should be looked on as a vanity in me, and not as a respect in the king, as it truly was, to my father, whom he often mentions with praise. Thou mayest communicate my grant to friends, and expect...
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