. Little journeys to the homes of the great . STEPHEN GIRARD STEPHEN GIRARD. HEN we make a census of the sensi-ble, and count the competent, wecan not leave out the name ofWilliam Penn. He was the founderof the City of Philadelphia, and ofthe great Commonwealth of Penn-sylvania, and gave name and fameto both 53 S$In this respect of being founded by an individual,Philadelphia, the City of Brotherly Love, and theState of Pennsylvania, are unique and peculiar inall the annals of American Philadelphia has no monument to Penn, save thehazy figure of a dumpy nobody surmounted by anenormo
. Little journeys to the homes of the great . STEPHEN GIRARD STEPHEN GIRARD. HEN we make a census of the sensi-ble, and count the competent, wecan not leave out the name ofWilliam Penn. He was the founderof the City of Philadelphia, and ofthe great Commonwealth of Penn-sylvania, and gave name and fameto both 53 S$In this respect of being founded by an individual,Philadelphia, the City of Brotherly Love, and theState of Pennsylvania, are unique and peculiar inall the annals of American Philadelphia has no monument to Penn, save thehazy figure of a dumpy nobody surmounted by anenormous hat, all lost in the incense of commerceupon the topmost pinnacle of the City Philadelphia has been sky-piloted by her orthodoxWitherspoons and Albertsons, by her Converses andConwells, and if they have taught her to love her ene-mies and then hold balances true by hating her friends,let Clio so record, for history is no longer a lie agreedupon. In her magnificent park and in her public squaresPhiladelphia has done honor in bronze and marble toColumbus, Humbold
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