 | James Boswell - 1768 - 424 pages
...was not ip., glory, but in goodnefs ; and that Penn in hi& American colony, where he had eftablifhe4 a people in quiet and contentment, was; happier than...Alexander the Great after deftroying multitudes at the conquefl ofr • Thebes. He obferyed that the hiilory of Alexander is pbfcure and dubious -, for his... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 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...record his life and actions, and would at any rate wife to render him odious to pofterity. Jfeyer was I fo thoroughly fenfible of my own defects as while... | |
 | James Boswell, Andrew Erskine - 1879 - 288 pages
...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. He observed that the history of Alexander is obscure... | |
 | James Boswell - 1879 - 302 pages
...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. He observed that the history of Alexander is obscure... | |
 | James Boswell - 1923 - 142 pages
...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. He observed that the history of Alexander is obscure... | |
 | Colonial Society of Massachusetts - 1927 - 616 pages
...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." In turning now specifically to the influence exerted... | |
 | 1927 - 602 pages
...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." In turning now specifically to the influence exerted... | |
 | William C. Dowling - 2008 - 226 pages
...happiness was not in glory but in goodness, and that Perm 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" (199). Yet Paoli does not see himself as the governor... | |
 | James Boswell - 2006 - 302 pages
...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, was happier than Alexander the Great after destroying multitudes at the conquest of Thebes.81 He observed that the history of Alexander is obscure... | |
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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. 
