 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
 | George Bancroft - 1883 - 524 sider
...others fond of liberty, 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... | |
 | Moses Coit Tyler - 1887 - 434 sider
...others fond of liberty, in such an age, we find men, professing a religion the most humane, mild, meek, gentle, and generous, adopting a principle as repugnant...inconsistent with the Bible and destructive to liberty ? . . . Would any one believe that I am master of slaves of my own purchase ? I am drawn along by the... | |
 | 1887 - 356 sider
...others fond of liberty, in such an age we find men, professing a religion the most humane, mild, meek, gentle, and generous, adopting a principle as repugnant...inconsistent with the Bible and destructive to liberty?" Moses Coit Tyler's " Patrick Henry," p. 346. More curious still is it that, when France was torn to... | |
 | Carl Schurz - 1887 - 418 sider
...others fond of liberty, in such an age, we find men professing a religion the most humane, mild, meek, gentle, and generous, adopting a principle as repugnant...it is inconsistent with the Bible, and destructive of liberty ? Every thinking, honest man rejects it in speculation, but how few in practice, from conscientious... | |
 | Hermann Von Holst - 1889 - 538 sider
...age, we find men, professing a religion the most humane, mild, meek, gentle and generous, adopting n principle as repugnant to humanity as it is inconsistent with the Bible and destructive of liberty? Every thinking, honest man rejects it in speculation, but how few in practice from conscientious... | |
 | James Mitchell Ashley - 1894 - 944 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 with the Bible, and destructive to liberty? " — PATRICK HENRY. "Sir, I envy neither the heart nor the head of that man from the North who rises... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1896 - 522 sider
...others fond of liberty, 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... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - 1896 - 504 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. How free in practice from conscientious motives ! ever culpable my conduct, I will so far pay my devoir... | |
 | William Bittle Wells, Lute Pease - 1900 - 1250 sider
...others fond of liberty, in such an age we find men, professing a religion the most humane, mild, meek, gentle and generous, adopting a principle as repugnant...inconsistent with the Bible and destructive to liberty ?" Thomas Jefferson was not only an abolitionist in theory, but an active antislavery man as well.... | |
 | Carl Schurz - 1899 - 408 sider
...others fond of liberty, in such an age, we find men professing a religion the most humane, mild, meek, gentle, and generous, adopting a principle as repugnant...it is inconsistent with the Bible, and destructive of liberty ? Every thinking, honest man rejects it in speculation, but how few in practice, from conscientious... | |
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