Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser

A New Work.
PROPOSALS
For printing and publishing, by subscription, The
History of Pennsylvania,
IN North-America, from the original institution and
settlement of that province, under the first propri-
etor and governor, WILLIAM PENN, in 1681, 'till
after the year 1740; with
AN INTRODUCTION
Respecting the Life of W. PENN.
Prior to the grant of that Province, and the reli-
gious Society of the people called Quakers; with the
FIRST RISE of the NEIGHBORING COLONIES,
more particularly of WEST-NEW-JERSEY, and the
Settlement of the DUTCH and SWEDES on DELA-
WARE.
To which is added,
A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE SAID PRO-
VINCE.
And of the general state, in which it flourished,
principally between the years 1760 and 1770. The
whole including a variety of things, useful and in-
teresting to be known, respecting that country in early
time, &c. With an appendix.
Written principally between the years 1776 and 1780,
By Robert Proud.
"s Pulchrum est benefacere reipublicæ, etiam benedicere
haud absurdum est, vel pace vel bello clarum fieri licet."
Cic. Catalin.
"Sed cum plerique arbitrentur res bellicas majores esse
quam urbanas, minuenda est haec opinio."
" WILLIAM PENN, the great legislator of the
Quakers, (in Pennsylvania) had the success of a con-
queror, in establishing and defending his colony, a-
mong savage tribes, without ever drawing the sword;
the goodness of the most benevolent rulers, in trea-
ting his subjects as his own children ; and the tender-
ness of an universal father, who opened his arms to
all mankind without distinction of sect or party. In
his Republic it was not his religious creed, but per-
sonal merit. that entitled every member of society to
the protection and emolument of the State."
Essay on Toleration, by Arthur O'Leary.
CONDITIONS.
I. This work will be printed in two octavo vol-
umes, neatly bound and lettered, both in sheep and
calf, for the choice of the subscribers; on paper simi-
lar to that of the conditions, as published in the Subscription
papers.
II. The head of William Penn, handsomely en-
graved, will be prefixed to the first, and a map or
sketch of Pennsylvania, and the parts adjacent, to the
second volume.
III. The price to subscribers will be four dollars
and an half in sheep, and five dollars in calf;-one
dollar to be paid at the time of subscribing, two dol-
lars on the delivery of the 1st volume, and the re-
mainder on the delivery of the second.
IV. When one thousand copies are subscribed
for, the work will be put to press and finished with
all convenient expedition.
Subscriptions will be received by Zachariah Poul-
son, jun. Printer, No. 80, Chestnut-street, and at the
Philadelphia Library in Fifth-street ; by Isaac Col-
lins Printer, and Joseph James, Merchant, New-
York; by John P. Pleasants and George W. Field,
Merchants. Baltimore; and by other persons both
in town and country
February 18.
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