| 1817 - 206 pages
...a Welchman, refusedi to have it called New Wales, Sylvania, and they added Penn to it : and though I much opposed it, and went to the king to have it struck out and altered ; he said it was passed and he would not take it uprn him — nor could twenty guineas move the under secretary to vary... | |
| North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1826 - 520 pages
...Secretary, a Welchman, refused to call it New Wales, I proposed Sylvania, and they added Penn to it; though I much opposed it, and went to the King to have it struck out. He said 'twas past, and he would take it upon him ; nor could twenty guineas move the under Secretary... | |
| Massachusetts Historical Society - Massachusetts - 1826 - 666 pages
...Secretary a Welchman, refused to have it called New Wales, Sylvania, and they added Penn to it : and though I much opposed it, and went to the King to have it struck out and altered ; he said it was passed, and he would take it upon him — nor could twenty guineas move the under Secretary to vary... | |
| Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Bibliography - 1826 - 452 pages
...Welshman — refused to have it called New Wales, Sylvania, and they added Penn to it ; and though I much opposed it, and went to the king to have it struck out and altered, he said 'twas past, and would take it upon him ; nor could twenty guineas move the under secretarys to vary... | |
| Robert Walsh - Serial publications - 1830 - 650 pages
...a Welchman, refused to have it called New Wales,) Sylvania, and they added Penn to it ; and though I much opposed it, and went to the king to have it struck out and altered, he said, 'twas past, and would take it upon him ; nor would twenty guineas move the under secretaries to vary... | |
| Samuel Hazard - Pennsylvania - 1828 - 470 pages
...Welshman — refused to have it called New Wales, Si/lvania, and they added Penn to it; and though I much opposed it, and went to the king to have it struck out and altered, he said 'twas past, and would take it upon him; nor could twenty guinea* move the under secretarys to vary... | |
| 1833 - 646 pages
...secretary, Welchman, refused to call it New Wales, I proposed Sylvania ; and '' added Penn to it, though I much opposed it, and went to the King to have it struck out, He said 'twas past, and he would take it upon him; nor would twenty guineas move the under-secrctary... | |
| Grenville Mellen - United States - 1839 - 934 pages
...secretary, a Welshman, refused to call it New Wales, I proposed Sylvania, and they added Fenn to it ; though I much opposed it, and went to the king to have it struck out. He said 'twas past, and he would lake it upon him ; nor could twenty guineas move the undersecretary... | |
| Grenville Mellen - United States - 1843 - 866 pages
...privilesws. I much opposed it, and went to the king lo have it struck out. He said 'iwis pas. and he would take it upon him ; nor could twenty guineas move the under-secretary to vary the name ; for I feared it should be looked on as a vanity in me, and not as a nsfv.i in the king to my father,... | |
| Israel Daniel Rupp - Adams County (Pa.) - 1846 - 612 pages
...Welshman — refused to have it called New Wales, Sylvania, and they added Penn to it ; and though I much opposed it, and went to the king to have it struck out and altered, he said 'twas past, and would take it upon him; nor could twenty guineas move the under secretarys to vary... | |
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