An Image of Peace

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DIANE Publishing Inc., 2007 - 44 من الصفحات
This is the catalogue for the exhibition, ¿An Image of Peace: The Penn Treaty Collection of Mr. & Mrs. Meyer Potamkin,¿ which exemplifies the significance of Penn¿s beliefs. More importantly, the collection & exhibition celebrate the Potamkin¿s work over 30 years to preserve & share Penn¿s vision of peace with all citizens. Through the generous donation of their collection to The State Museum of PA, their legacy, along with that of William Penn, will be preserved for future generations. Includes: ¿Thoughts on an Image of Peace,¿ by Vivian O. Potamkin; ¿Images of the Lenape Indians in PA¿; ¿Images of William Penn: An Evolving Portrait of Pennsylvania¿s Founding Father¿; ¿An Image of Peace: Penn¿s Treaty with the Indians¿; Collectors of an Image of Peace¿. Illus.
 

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الصفحة 3 - The natives I shall consider in their persons, language, manners, religion and government, with my sense of their original. For their persons, they are generally tall, straight, well-built, and of singular proportion; they tread strong and clever, and mostly walk with a lofty chin.
الصفحة 16 - Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the LORD thy God chasteneth thee. Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him. For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills...
الصفحة 10 - The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.
الصفحة 3 - The thick lip and flat nose so frequent with the East Indians and blacks are not common to them ; for I have seen as comely, European-like faces among them, of both sexes, as on your side of the sea: and truly an Italian complexion hath not much more of the white ; and the noses of several of them have as much of the Roman.
الصفحة 15 - I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will direct all his ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let go my captives, not for price nor reward,
الصفحة 5 - The great object I had in forming that composition was to express savages brought into harmony and peace by justice and benevolence, by not withholding from them what was their right, and giving to them what they were in want of, as well as a wish to give by that art a conquest made over native people without sword or dagger.

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