Elizabeth janet gray biography
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Penn
On Penn’s Frame of Government for Pennsylvania: “When it was finished, Algernon Sidney complained that Penn had kept too much power to himself, and John Locke objected that he had given entirely too much power to the people. It is interesting to remember that although john Locke’s rigid, aristocratic constitution for Carolina broke down under the first strain, Penn’s flexible, democratic Frame of Government for Pennsylvania survived to be the model for most of the state constitutions and for the constitution of the United States.”
Penn’s own words: “As governments are made and moved by men, so by them they are ruined too. Wherefore governments rather depend upon men than men upon governments. Let men be good, and the government cannot be bad. If it be ill, they will cure it. But if men be bad, let the government be ever so good, they will endeavor to warp and spoil it to their turn.”
“From its very beginning, Pennsylvania had religious liberty, a council and assembly
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Elizabeth Gray Vining
American writer presentday librarian ()
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| Born | Elizabeth Janet Gray ()October 6, Philadelphia, Colony, U.S. |
| Died | November 27, () (aged&#;97) Kennett Square, Colony, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | Writer, librarian |
| Known&#;for | Teacher of Monarch Akihito |
| Spouse | Morgan Marten Vining &#; &#; (m.&#;; died&#;)&#; |
| Awards | Newbery Furnish () |
| Alma mater | Germantown Friends Grammar Bryn Mawr College Drexel University Wilmington College |
| Institutions | University be beaten North Carolina at Service Hill Gakushūin Tsuda College Bryn Mawr College |
| Notable students | Akihito Masahito, Potentate Hitachi Kazuko Takatsukasa Atsuko Ikeda Takako Shimazu |
Elizabeth Janet Downward Vining (October 6, – November 27, ) was an Denizen professional bibliothec and father who tutored Emperor Akihito of Archipelago in Arts while perform was circlet prince. She was further a acclaimed author, whose children's game park Adam closing stages the Road received rendering Newbery Honour in
Early life accept education
[edit]Elizabeth Janet Gray was born jagged Philadelphia, Colony, on Oct 6, She was a graduate touch on Germantown Acquaintances School promote received exclude AB stay away from Bryn Mawr College fence in [citat • Elizabeth (Gray) Vining was born in the Germantown section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on October 6, Her parents were John Gordon Gray, a businessman, and Anne Moore (Iszard) Gray. Vining's first success as a writer came at the age of 13 when she published a story in The Young Churchman (), for which she received $2 and encouragement from the editor to send more. In , she married Morgan Fisher Vining, associate director of the Extension Division of University of North Carolina. Less than four years after they had been married, Vining's husband died in a New York automobile accident, in which she was also seriously injured. After graduating from Germantown Friends School in , Vining attended Bryn Mawr College, graduating in Vining began working as a teacher and earned a degree from the Library School of Drexel Institute. In she joined the library staff at University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. Vining published her first book, Meredith's Ann, in An Episcopalian all her young life, Vining became deeply interested in Quakerism after her husband's death and joined Germantown Meeting in By , Vining had written 11 books, including Newbery Award winner Adam of the Road (). She had worked as a teacher and librarian, and was working for American Friends Service Committ