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Title: Quaint corners in Philadelphia, with one hundred and seventy-four illustrations
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Stockton, Louise, 1838-1914 Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, 1855-1936 Barber, Edwin Atlee, 1851-1916 Jackson, Joseph, 1867-1946 Turner, Eliza Sproat, Mrs., 1826-1903 Leach, Frank Willing, 1855-1943 Campbell, Helen, 1839-1918
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Publisher: Philadelphia, New York, J. Wanamaker
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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pious men of other persua-si(»ns he is generally regarded as a bright pattern ofChristian virtue. Meanwhile, admirers of a very ditler-ent sort have sounded his j)raises. The French philoso-phers of the eighleeuih century ))ardoned what theyregardecl as his sui)erstitious fancies, in considerationof his contempt for jiriests and of his cosmopolitan be-nevolence, impartially extended to all races and allcreeds. His name has thus become, throughout all civ-ili/ed countries, a synonym for probity and )>hilan-thropy. Yet— Here, with the charge that he is far moic a mythicalthan an hi>i(Hical jxrsonage, begins a series of ininien-does rathei- than direct accusations, continuing thi-ongh
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A QUAKER SOLDIER. 13 the four volumes with a steadily-increasing animus, andleaving one in the unhappy state to which much of themodern historical research reduces one—entirely uncer-tain as to what is and what is not true, and disposed toconsider everything a myth to which faith has hithertoIjcen pinned. A sketch holds no room for refutation, but a recentdispassionate reviewer of Macaulays estimates of otherhistorical personages sums up in the keenest words theactual fact as to the soundness of his judgment: *This faculty of conveying the greatest amount offalse effect with the smallest amount of definite misstate-ment appears to be an unconscious felicity in the reviewer,more like genius than any other faculty he possessed, andakin to that subtle power of self-deception which makesthe heart of man deceitful above all things and despe-rately wicked. That the critic of the seventeenth century should failto comprehend the motives and purposes of a man twohundred jears in advance of h

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