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| Children had rather be making of Tools and Instruments of Play; Shaping, Drawing, Framing, and Building, &c. than getting some Rules of Propriety of Speech by Heart. |
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| 1644–1718, English Quaker, founder of Pennsylvania, b. London, England; son of Sir William Penn.—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright © 2002 Columbia University Press. (See also: Introductory Note from the Harvard Classics.) |
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Pronunciation:  p n from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. |
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- Some Fruits of Solitude
The aphorisms of the founder of Pennsylvania published anonymously so as not to be reimprisoned for disloyalty. From the Harvard Classics, Vol. I, Part 3.
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- Penn, William, 44018 to 44023
Entries from the Columbia World of Quotations.
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- “William Penn, and his No Cross No Crown.” and “More purely Literary Efforts: Penn’s Some Fruits of Solitude”
Sections by Edward Grubb from the Cambridge History of English Literature.
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