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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 16: (search)
Sewel, 474, is the contemporary authority. In the next year, Penn, having crossed the Alps, was just entering on the magnificence of Piedmont, when 1664 the appointment of his father to the command of a British squadron, in the naval war with Holland, compelled his return to the care of the estates of the family. The discipline of society and travel had given him grace of manners, enhanced by the severe but unpretending purity of his morals; and in London the travelled student of Lincoln's Inn, if diligent in gaining a 1664 1665 knowledge of English law, was yet esteemed a most modish fine gentleman. Pepys, i. 311. In France, the science of the Huguenots had nourished reflection; in London, every sentiment of sympathy was excited by the horrors which he witnessed during the devastations of the plague. Penn, II. 465. Having thus perfected his understanding by the 1665 learning of Oxford, the religion and philosophy of the French Huguenots and France, and the study o