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" He said the greatest happiness was not in glory, but in goodness ; and that Penn in his American colony, where he had established a people in quiet and contentment, was happier than Alexander the Great after destroying multitudes at the conquest of Thebes.... "
The Journal of a Tour to Corsica: & Memoirs of Pascal Paoli - Page 80
by James Boswell - 1923 - 110 pages
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The Monthly Review Or, Literary Journal

Several Hands - 1768 - 612 pages
...was not in glory, but in goodncfs ; and that Penn, in his American colony, where he had ettablifhed a people in quiet and contentment, was happier than Alexander the Great, after deilroying multitudes at the conqueft of Thebes J The lafl day whicli our Author fpent wiih Paoli,...
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An Account of Corsica: The Journal of a Tour to that Island; and Memoirs of ...

James Boswell - 1768 - 426 pages
...was not in glory, but in goodnefs ; and that Penn in his American colony, where he had cftablifhed a people in quiet and contentment, was happier than Alexander the Great after deftroying multitudes at the conqueft of Thebes. He obferved that the hiftory of Alexander is obfcure...
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An Account of Corsica,: The Journal of a Tour to that Island, and Memoirs of ...

James Boswell - 1769 - 430 pages
...was not -in glory, 'but in goodnefs ; and that Penn in his American colony, where he had eftablilhed a people in quiet and contentment, was happier than Alexander the Great after deftroying multitudes at the conqueft of Thebes. He obferved that the hiftory of Alexander is obfcure...
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Boswell's correspondence with ... Andrew Erskine, and his Journal of a tour ...

James Boswell - 1879 - 302 pages
...the immediate cause of the downfall of the empire." Gibbon's "Decline and Fall," chapter 27.— ED. many of which were undoubtedly false. He said it was...at any rate wish to render him odious to posterity. people which roused me so much, I wished to be a Sir James MacDonald.* The last day which I spent with...
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Boswell's Correspondence with the Honourable Andrew Erskine: And His Journal ...

James Boswell, Andrew Erskine - 1879 - 288 pages
...immediate cause of the downfall of the empire." Gibbon's "Decline and Fall," chapter 27. — ED. Q many of which were undoubtedly false. He said it was...at any rate wish to render him odious to posterity. Never was I so thoroughly sensible of my own defects as while I was in Corsica. I felt how small were...
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Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, Volume 26

1927 - 602 pages
...enduring American reminder of the Corsican. Boswell quotes the general as having made this observation: l "He said the greatest happiness was not in glory,...destroying multitudes at the conquest of Thebes." In turning now specifically to the influence exerted in America by the name of Paoli, it seems to be...
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Transactions of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts

Colonial Society of Massachusetts - 1927 - 616 pages
...enduring American reminder of the Corsican. Boswell quotes the general as having made this observation: l "He said the greatest happiness was not in glory,...destroying multitudes at the conquest of Thebes." In turning now specifically to the influence exerted in America by the name of Paoli, it seems to be...
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The Boswellian Hero

William C. Dowling - 2008 - 226 pages
...the arts of peace: "he said the greatest happiness was not in glory but in goodness, and that Perm in his American colony, where he had established a...after destroying multitudes at the conquest of Thebes" (199). Yet Paoli does not see himself as the governor of a feudal state, for as hero of the Tour he...
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An Account of Corsica, the Journal of a Tour to That Island; and Memoirs of ...

James Boswell - 2006 - 302 pages
...said the greatest happiness was not in glory, but in goodness; and that Penn in his American colony,80 where he had established a people in quiet and contentment,...Great after destroying multitudes at the conquest of Thebes.81 He observed that the history of Alexander is obscure and dubious; for his captains who divided...
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The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, Volume 39

1768 - 616 pages
...was not in glory, but in goodntfs ; and that Penn, in his American colony, where he had eftablifhed a people in quiet and contentment, was happier than Alexander the Great, after deilroying multitudes at the conquefl of Thebes.* The laft day which our Author fpent with Paoli, appeared...
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