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Title: Calvert and Penn
Or the Growth of Civil and Religious Liberty in America,
as Disclosed in the Planting of Maryland and Pennsylvania

Author: Brantz Mayer

Release Date: May 20, 2010 [EBook #32454]

Language: English

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CALVERT AND PENN;

OR THE GROWTH OF
CIVIL AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY
IN AMERICA,

AS DISCLOSED IN THE PLANTING OF
MARYLAND AND PENNSYLVANIA:

[Illustration]

A DISCOURSE BY
BRANTZ MAYER,

DELIVERED IN PHILADELPHIA BEFORE THE
PENNSYLVANIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY,

8 APRIL, 1852.

"Se mai turba il Ceil Sereno
"Fosco vel di nebbia impura,
"Quando il sol gli squarcia il seno,
"Piu sereno il ciel si fa.

"Rea, discordia, invidia irata
"Fuga il tempo, e nuda splende.
"Vincitrice e vendicata.
"L'offuscata Verita."

PRINTED FOR THE
PENNSYLVANIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY
BY JOHN D TOY
BALTIMORE

CALVERT AND PENN.

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 isola