Calvert And Penn

Author : Brantz Mayer
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ISBN 13 : 9781331803829
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Calvert and Penn; Or the Growth of Civil and Religious Liberty in America written by Brantz Mayer and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-19 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Calvert and Penn; Or the Growth of Civil and Religious Liberty in America: As Disclosed in the Planting of Maryland and Pennsylvania It is a venerable and beautiful rite which commands the Chinese not only to establish in their dwellings a Hall of Ancestors, devoted to memorials of kindred who are dead, but which obliges them, on a certain day of every year, to quit the ordinary toils of life and hasten to the tombs of their Forefathers, where, with mingled services of festivity and worship, they pass the hours in honoring the manes of those whom they have either loved or been taught to respect for their virtues. This is a wholesome and ennobling exercise of the memory. It teaches neither a blind allegiance to the past, nor a superstitious reverence for individuals; but it is a recognition of the great truth that no man is a mere isolated being in the great chain of humanity, and that, while we are not selfishly independent of the past, so also, by equal affinity, we are connected with and control the fate of those who are to succeed us in the drama of the world. The Time that merges in Eternity, sinks like a drop in the ocean, but the deeds of that Time, like the drop in the deep, are again exhaled and fitted for new uses; so that although the Time be dead, the acts thereof are immortal - for the achieved action never perishes. That which was wrought, in innocence or wrong, is eternal in its results or influences. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.