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Some Fruits of Solitude - Including A Sermon Preached at the Quaker's Meeting House in Gracechurch-Street London Eighth Month 12th 1694 - cover

Some Fruits of Solitude - Including A Sermon Preached at the Quaker's Meeting House in Gracechurch-Street London Eighth Month 12th 1694

William Penn

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"Some Fruits of Solitude in Reflections and Maxims" is a collection of epigrams and sayings edited and put together by the early American Quaker and founder of the Province of Pennsylvania William Penn. The work collected in this book presents the wisdom of pre-Revolutionary USA.  Contents:   Ignorance  Education  Frugality or Bounty  Industry  Knowledge  On the Government of Thoughts  Friendship  Of Charity A Sermon Preached at the Quaker's Meeting House, in Gracechurch-Street, London, Eighth Month 12th, 1694
Available since: 12/19/2023.
Print length: 30 pages.

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