Quaker Biographies: A Series of Sketches, Chiefly Biographical, Concerning Members of Gthe Society of Friends, from the Seventeenth Century to More Recent Times, Volume 5For sale at Friends' Book Store, 1914 |
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Page 118 - The very gentlest of all human natures He joined to courage strong, And love outreaching unto all God's creatures With sturdy hate of wrong. Tender as woman ; manliness and meekness In him were so allied That they who judged him by his strength or weakness Saw but a single side.
Page 136 - Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free; They touch our country, and their shackles fall.
Page 228 - And they shall come from the east and from the west, and from the north and from the south, and shall sit down in the kingdom of God.
Page 126 - These are the reasons why we are against the traffic of menbody, as followeth : Is there any that would be done or handled at this manner...
Page 147 - IT is done ! Clang of bell and roar of gun Send the tidings up and down. How the belfries rock and reel ! How the great guns, peal on peal, Fling the joy from town to town ! Ring, O bells ! Every stroke exulting tells Of the burial hour of crime.
Page 127 - Quakers do rule in their province; and most of them do look upon us with an envious eye. But if this is done well, what shall we say is done evil?
Page 124 - I desired also, that they would cause their overseers to deal mildly and gently with their negroes, and not use cruelty towards them, as the manner of some hath been and is ; and that after certain years of servitude they should make them free.
Page 219 - We entered into a large hall, where there was a long table full of victuals; at the lowest part sat his negroes, his hired men were next, then the family and myself; and, at the head, the venerable father and his wife presided. Each reclined his head and said his prayers, divested of the tedious cant of some, and of the ostentatious style of others. "After the luxuries of our cities, (observed he,) this plain fare must appear to thee a severe fast.
Page 58 - Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings ; he shall not stand before mean men...
Page 222 - The meeting-house was a square building devoid of any ornament whatever; the whiteness of the walls, the conveniency of seats, that of a large stove, which in cold weather keeps the whole house warm, were the only essential things which I observed. Neither pulpit nor desk, fount nor altar, tabernacle nor organ, were there to be seen; it is merely a spacious room, in which these good people meet every Sunday. A profound silence ensued, which lasted about half an hour; every one had his head reclined,...