Gambar halaman
PDF
ePub

History of the Old and New Testament, translated from the Works of the learned Le Sieur de Royaumont, by Joseph Raynor, and supervised by Dr. Anthony Horneck, Henry Wharton, B. D. and others.

Collins's Memoirs of the Sidneys, prefixed to the

Sidney State-Papers.

Douglass's Summary.

Ward's Life of Dr. Henry Moore.

Life of John Locke, by John Le Clerc.

Salmon's Chronological Historian.

Macpherson's History of Great Britain, including Original State Papers.

Dialogues of the Dead, by George Lord Lyttelton. Dr. Jonathan Swift's Letters, collected by Deane Swift, Esq.

Noble's Continuation of Granger.

Sutcliff's Travels in North America.

Monthly Magazine.

Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Chronicle.

European Magazine and London Review.

Manuscript Letters of William Penn.

Authenticated Copies of the same.

Votes and Proceedings of the House of Representatives of Pennsylvania, beginning Dec. 4, 1682 (an American publication).

The

OF THE

Private and Public Life

OF

WILLIAM PEN N.

BY THOMAS CLARKSON, M. A.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

London:

PRINTED BY RICHARD TAYLOR AND CO., SHOE-LANE,

FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN,

PATERNOSTER-ROW.

1813.

H.

[graphic][subsumed][ocr errors][subsumed][subsumed]

PREFACE TO THE READER.

THERE are two principles, by which men usually regulate their conduct, whether in private or in public life. The one is built upon political expediency; the other upon morality and religion.

That, which is built upon the basis of policy, looks almost wholly at the consequences of things, regarding but little whether they be in themselves honest or not. It springs out of the worst part of the nature of man. It has no pretension to any other name than that of Cunning. It is of all others the most pernicious in its effects. It leads to oppression at home, to wars abroad, and to every moral evil, of which mankind has had to complain; and it is in general, besides, as far as the actor himself is concerned, productive of disgrace and ruin.

That, which is founded on the basis of religion, is on the other hand never concerned with consequences but in a secon

dary

« SebelumnyaLanjutkan »