Illustrious men of the United States . 13 King Philip, of Mount Hope, in Rhode Is-land, will long be remembered in the historyof New-England. Brave, well judging, andof desperate energy, had Christianity and civi-lization given to his mind right impulses, hemight have been as great a blessing to the landas he was a 15 WILLIAM PENN. This eminent Friend, whose name is indeliblyfixed on so fair a portion of this country, wasbcrn in the city of London, in 1664. He re-ceived a good education, first at a private schoolin Chigwell, Essex, and then at Oxford. It waswhile he was at this great
Illustrious men of the United States . 13 King Philip, of Mount Hope, in Rhode Is-land, will long be remembered in the historyof New-England. Brave, well judging, andof desperate energy, had Christianity and civi-lization given to his mind right impulses, hemight have been as great a blessing to the landas he was a 15 WILLIAM PENN. This eminent Friend, whose name is indeliblyfixed on so fair a portion of this country, wasbcrn in the city of London, in 1664. He re-ceived a good education, first at a private schoolin Chigwell, Essex, and then at Oxford. It waswhile he was at this great and ancient institu-tion of learning, that the courage and indepen-dence of his nature, developed itself, for in themidst of all the inducements to youth to adoptthe manners and fashions of the times, he de-termined to adhere to an eminent Quakerpreacher, Thomas Loe, and suffering thus earlyin the cause of religious libeaty, was fined fornon-conformity, and expelled. So did old Ox-ford cast from her cloisters, one who was toevidence to the world how above all theforms of learning is the greater discipleship ofvirtue or common sense. H-e identified him-self with the Friends, and adopting the dress,speaking the language, and following the pathof duty which he believed most in consonancewith the dictate of his conscien
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