Early Philadelphia
| Preis: | 23.95 EUR* (inkl. MWST zzgl. Versand - Preis kann jetzt höher sein!) |
| Versand: | 0.00 EUR Versandkostenfrei innerhalb von Deutschland |
| Partner: | buecher.de |
| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Lippincott, Horace Mather) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from Early Philadelphia: Its People, Life and Progress Philadelphia owes its origin religious persecution. It was undertaken as a "Holy Experiment," therefore an understanding of its building, its customs and its institutions necessarily requires that much be said about religion. Its first settlers were artisans rather than adventurers. Their reliance was industry and their watchword liberty. Such factors explain why many useful and great institutions originated in Philadelphia before similar ones developed elsewhere in the Colonies. The character and zeal of their founders were guarantees of their survival. Much must be said about the Quakers. The province was theirs and they controlled, for nearly one hundred years, down to the summer of 1776, its policy and legislation. They were a solid lot, slow but sure, and in any account of the early city obviously become the most conspicuous of the diversified elements of the people. The other groups were for the first seventy years fewer in numbers. Many of the settlers, the Germans and Scotch-Irish particularly, went off into the wilderness of the frontier to live by themselves, leaving the Quakers in undisturbed control of politics. This book aims to bring together under one cover many fragmentary and scattered accounts of important and peculiar customs and institutions which live in Philadelphia to-day, serving as useful a purpose in the complexity of modern life as they did when they started. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
* Preis kann jetzt höher sein. Den aktuellen Stand und Informationen zu den Versandkosten finden sie auf der Homepage unseres Partners.
Folgende Produkte könnten dir ebenso gefallen
