The Library of American Biography, Band 22Hilliard, Gray, 1847 |
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addressed Admiral affairs Algiers American appear arrival Assembly attack Bainbridge Barron Bashaw batteries blockade boats bomb-vessels brig brigs and schooners Captain captives captured charge Chauncey Christian close Colonel Lear colony command Commodore Commodore's compelled Constitution Consul Council crew cruise Decatur despatch duty Edward Preble enemy engaged England Enterprise father fire flagship force friends frigate gales gentleman George Fox Gibraltar Governor gunboats guns harbor honor Hull hundred James James Barron John Adams joined King land letter liberty Lieutenant Lord Malta Mediterranean ment Minister months Nautilus naval navy officers peace Penn's Pennsylvania Philadelphia port Preble Preble's prisoners province Quakers ransom received religious remarked round shot sail Samuel Barron schooners Secretary sent ship shot Sir Alexander Ball Siren Society Somers soon squadron Stewart Syracuse tain Tangiers thousand dollars tion treaty Tripoli Tripolitan Tunis United vessels Vixen William Penn wrote
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Seite 282 - ... distance from New Castle, northward and westward unto the beginning of the fortieth degree of northern latitude, and then by a straight line westward to the limits of longitude above mentioned.
Seite 237 - Perm, in two volumes. To which is prefixed a Journal of his Life, with many original Letters and Papers not before published.
Seite 223 - But above all, he excelled in prayer. The inwardness and weight of his spirit, the reverence and solemnity of his address and behaviour, and the fewness and fulness of his words, have often struck even strangers with admiration, as they used to reach others with consolation. The most awful, living, reverent frame I ever felt or beheld, I must say, was his in prayer.
Seite 282 - ... but if the said river shall not extend so far northward, then by the said river so far as it doth extend; and from the head of the said river, the...
Seite 287 - Certain Conditions or Concessions, Agreed upon by William Penn, Proprietary and Governor of the Province of Pennsylvania and those who are the adventurers and purchasers in the same province the Eleventh of July, one thousand six hundred and eighty-one.
Seite 274 - I know not by what discretion, lit heavily upon us, and we complain, yet we do not mean that any should take a fresh aim at them, or that they must come in our room. We must give the liberty we ask, and cannot be false to our principles, though it were to relieve ourselves...
Seite 255 - A serious Apology for the Principles and Practices of the People called Quakers...
Seite 388 - I purpose to see you if God give me life this fall, but I grow old and infirm, yet would gladly see you once more before I die, and my young sons and daughter also settled upon good tracts of land for them and theirs after them, to clear and settle upon, as Jacob's sons did.
Seite 198 - Munster and a member of that provincial council, and anno 1664 was chosen great captain commander under his royal highness in that signal and most evidently successful fight against the Dutch fleet.
Seite 235 - At night comes Mrs. Turner to see us ; and there, among other talk, she tells me that Mr. William Pen, who is lately come over from Ireland, is a Quaker again, or some very melancholy thing ; that he cares for no company, nor comes into any : which is a pleasant thing, after his being abroad so long, and his father such a hypocritical rogue, and at this time an Atheist.