Advice to young men and boys; by Comegys Benjamin Bartis 1819-1901

Author:Comegys, Benjamin Bartis, 1819-1901. [from old catalog]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Girard college, Philadelphia. [from old catalog], Conduct of life
Publisher: Philadelphia, Gebbie & co.
Published: 1890-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

city came to be named, Penn having no one to dispute his wish, called it by that word, of whose meaning we think so little, Philadelphia—brotherly love. Two months after this he met the Indians, it is said, under a great elm tree in the upper part of the city, in what we now call Kensington, and concluded that treaty which has been said to be the only treaty that was ever made without an oath, and that was never broken. Shortly after this Penn proceeded to lay out the city, and, as a distinguished English author has said, he must have taken the ancient Babylon for his model, for this was the first modern city that was laid out with the streets crossing each other at right angles.

The charter which Penn received from Charles the Second, King of England (the original of which is in the capital at Harrisburg, on three large sheets of parchment), makes him proprietary and governor, also holding his authority under the crown. He at once therefore set about making a code of laws as special statutes, which with the common law of England should be the laws of the province. One of these special laws was this : "Every one, rich or poor, was to learn a useful trade or occupation ; the poor to live on it: the rich to resort to it if they should become poor." And I do not know what better law he could have enacted.

When the news of Penn's arrival and cordial reception reached England and the continent of Europe,

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