 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...  Niles' National Register - Side 1401841Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | Hinton Rowan Helper - 1857 - 434 sider
...country, we find men professing a religion the most mittl, humane, gentle, and generous, adopting such a principle, as repugnant to humanity as it is inconsistent with the Bible, and Jostruotive to liberty ? Every thinking, honest man rejects it in speculation. How free in practice... | |
 | 1869 - 478 sider
...slavery ? " Is it fanaticism for Massachusetts to believe, as your Henry believed, that slavery is as repugnant to humanity, as it is inconsistent with the Bible, and destructive to liberty ? H. WILSON. Make a list of the nouns in the above extract, naming the kind of each, and the cases... | |
 | Anthony Benezet, Roberts VAUX - 1859 - 172 sider
...precision, in a country above all others fond of liberty, that in such an age and in such a country, we find men professing a religion the most humane,...speculation. How few, in practice, from conscientious motives ! "Believe me, I shall honour the Quakers for their noble efforts to abolish slavery. Would any one... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - 1860 - 374 sider
...country, we find men, professing a religion the most mild, humane, gentle and generous, adopting such a principle as repugnant to humanity as it is inconsistent...thinking, honest man, rejects it in speculation." Was John Eandolph of Eoanoke, a- Fanatic, and an Incendiary, and an Enemy of the South ? And yet, iu... | |
 | Hinton Rowan Helper - 1860 - 464 sider
...meu professing a religion the most mild, humane, gentle, and generous, adopting such a principle, aa repugnant to humanity as it is inconsistent with the...thinking, honest man rejects it in speculation. How free in practice from conscientious motives 1 Would any one believe that 1 am master of slaves of my... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - 1860 - 364 sider
...men, professing a religion the most mild, humane, gentle and generous, adopting such a principle aa repugnant to humanity as it is inconsistent with the...thinking, honest man, rejects it in speculation." Was John Randolph of Roanoke, a Fanatic, and an Incendiary, and an Enemy of the South ? And yet, in... | |
 | William Allen - 1860 - 110 sider
...his slaves ; so also did John Randolph. Patrick Henry declared, that the principle of slavery is " as repugnant to humanity, as it is inconsistent with the Bible, and destructive to liberty." Mr. Jefferson said in his Notes on Virginia, in reference to the holding of slaves, " I tremble for... | |
 | George Duffield - 1861 - 64 sider
...precision, in a country, above all others, fond of liberty ; that in such an age, and in such a country, we find men professing a religion the most humane,...to humanity, as it is inconsistent with the Bible, arid destructive to liberty ? every thinking honest man rejects it in speculation. How few in practice... | |
 | George Livermore - 1863 - 218 sider
...John Alsop, of Hudson, NY, dated at Hanover Court-House, 13 January, 1773, pronouncing slavery to be " as repugnant to humanity as it is inconsistent with the Bible and destructive to Liberty." 3. The laws of some of the Northern and Middle States, at the time of the extinction of slavery therein,... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1864 - 572 sider
...fond of liberty, CHAP. in such an age, we find men, professing a religion the most humane, mild, meek, gentle, and generous, adopting a principle as repugnant...Every thinking honest man rejects it in speculation, but how few in practice from conscientious motives! Believe me, I shall honor the Quakers for their... | |
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