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Excerpt from The Remains of William Penn: Pennsylvania's Plea, the Mission to England, Visit to the Grave, Letters, Etc <p>It will not be amiss, therefore, to consider why especial honor is due from Pennsylvania to'her Founder. <p>There is, I think, a wide-spread popular mis apprehension as to both the character and pur poses of William Penn. By the majority of care less readers and thinkers, he is regarded merely as a sort of landlord, with somewhat broader and shrewder Views than belonged to his time. <p>About the Publisher <p>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com <p>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.