The honorable William Penn, late governor of Pennsylvania, was chosen agent to the Court of Britain, and directed to deliver the petition to the King himself and to endeavor by his personal influence to procure a favorable reception to this last address.

To learn to die is an heroic work.

General Washington had rather incautiously encamped the bulk of his army on Long Island - a large and plentiful district about two miles from the city of New York

The study of the human character opens at once a beautiful and a deformed picture of the soul.

A superfluity of wealth, and a train of domestic slaves, naturally banish a sense of general liberty, and nourish the seeds of that kind of independence that usually terminates in aristocracy.

The waves have rolled upon me, the billows are repeatedly broken over me, yet I am not sunk down.

But in the hero ne'er forget the man.