The Swedish Beginning of Pennsylvania and Other Events in Pennsylvania History. E-book. Formato PDF Thomas Willing Balch   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

When the President a year ago invited me to address this notable Society at one of its annual meetings, but one answer, of course, could be given. And as I am a Pennsylvanian by almost two and three-quarter centuries of inheritance, I have chosen some events in the history of Pennsylvania as my theme for this occasion. Pennsylvania, as her name of the Keystone State implies, has had a notable history. During the Colonial period, owing to her geographical position, the large number of her population and her important commercial development, she was truly the Keystone Colony. And since the Declaration of Independence, owing in part still to her geographical position and also because of the in?uence that, through the large number of her people moving Westward and south westward, she has exerted in shaping and moulding the institutions of the Nation beyond the Alleghenies, Pennsylvania has come to be known all over the country as the Keystone State. Like every one of the other colonies or original States, Pennsylvania has contributed her share to the building and maintenance of the Union. Unfortunately the people of Penn sylvania possess only in a small degree an admirable quality which you here in Massachusetts have in large measure, a quality which I admire you for; and that is, that when anyone in the community has done some thing which is really worth the doing, to make it known not only locally but also in all the world besides.

The New Cyneas of Émeric Crucé: Edited With an Introduction and Translated, Into English From the Original, French Text of 1623. E-book. Formato PDF Thomas Willing Balch   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

I hasten to satisfy your desire. As you know, every year, I pass my judicial holidays in going to work in some great library. In 1890, I worked at Paris and I tried to know at first hand the work entitled N ouveau Cynée according to a passage of Leibniz, and which was generally attributed to Emery La Croix or de La Croix. La Croix ap peared, besides, in several biographies. I had the pleasure to be able to read at the Bibliotheque Nationale the little volume entitled, Le N ouvean C yne'e ou discours d'estat représentent des occasions et moyens d'establir une paix généralle et la liberté du commerce par tout le monde. Aux monarques et princes souverains de ce temps. Em. Cr. Par. A Paris, chez 7acques Villery, ou Palais, sur le perron royal. Avec privilege du roy.