[We have reason to believe that the idea was suggested to Mr. Snow neither from Bacon'sSylva, nor from any of our English poets, but from a Greek writer after the Christian era, referred to by Coleridge in hisTable Talk.]
[We have reason to believe that the idea was suggested to Mr. Snow neither from Bacon'sSylva, nor from any of our English poets, but from a Greek writer after the Christian era, referred to by Coleridge in hisTable Talk.]
Mr. Hepworth Dixon, who is already favourably known as the author of aLife of Howard, has just publishedWilliam Penn, an Historical Biography. It is unquestionably a book of considerable talent; and even those who may be most inclined to dissent from theauthor's views of the political principles of the Quakers (and we suspect many of the Quakers themselves will be found among that number), will admit that in treating him not as a mere Quaker, as preceding biographers had been too much disposed to do, but as "a great English historical character—the champion of the Jury Laws—the joint leader, with Algernon Sidney, of the Commonwealth men—the royal councillor of 1684-8—the courageous defender of Free Thought—the founder of Pennsylvania"—Mr. Dixon has succeeded in the task which he had proposed to himself, namely, that of transforming William Penn "from a myth into a man." His vindication of this great man from what he designates "The Macaulay Charges" would not, however, have lost one iota of its efficiency, had it been couched in somewhat more measured terms.
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Passionael efte dat Levent der Heiligen. Folio. Basil, 1522.
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