Memoirs of the Life of Anthony BenezetJames P. Parke, no. 74, South Second street. Merritt, printer., 1817 - 136 sider |
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Side 62 - Is it not amazing, that at a time, when the rights of humanity are defined and understood with precision, in a country, above all others, fond of liberty, that in such an age, and...
Side 78 - Cousins know this, and that you promised to go away as soon as you drove the French away, and yet you stay there, and build Houses, and make it stronger and stronger every Day; for this Reason we entirely deny your Request; you shall not have a Road this Way.
Side 109 - Oh, how desirable, and how profitable to the Christian life, is a spirit of holy watchfulness, and godly jealousy over ourselves ; when...
Side 63 - It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion, to show that it is at variance with that law which warrants slavery. I know not when to stop. I could say many things on the subject, a serious view of which gives a gloomy prospect to future times...
Side 76 - Allegheny, and suffer nobody to settle there; and as these Indians are very much inclined to the English interest, so he begged us very much to tell the Governor, General, and all other people not to settle there. And if the English would draw back over the mountain, they would get all the other nations into their interest; but if they staid and settled there, all the nations would be against them ; and he was afraid it would be a great war, and never come to a peace again.
Side 63 - I believe a time will come when an opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil. Everything we can do is to improve it, if it happens in our day ; if not, let us transmit to our descendants, together with our slaves, a pity for their unhappy lot, and an abhorrence for slavery.
Side 61 - It is not a little surprising, that the professors of christianity, whose chief excellence consists in softening the human heart, in cherishing and improving its finer feelings, should encourage a practice so totally repugnant to the first impressions of right and wrong.
Side 75 - ... by Post's journal, that immediately after the English had possessed themselves of Fort Duquesne, the Indians desired it might be evacuated, and that the English should retire to the eastward of the Alleghany mountains; but this not being agreeable to the English, the Indians were repeatedly pressed to alter that resolution ; but they persisted in it, and at different times replied as follows : ' We have already answered what we have to say to the general, that he should go back over the mountains....