 | Charles Alexander McMurry - Education - 1914 - 304 pages
...withdraw certain statements or die a prisoner. "Thou mayest tell him," said Penn to the messenger, "that my prison shall be my grave before I will budge a jot, for I owe obedience of my conscience to no mortal man." The student's actual report of this passage to the class... | |
 | Rupert Sargent Holland - 1915 - 206 pages
...release put a stop to some business; thou mayst tell my father, who I know will ask thee, these words : that my prison shall be my grave, before I will budge...have no need to fear ; God will make amends for all ; they are mistaken in me ; I value not their threats and resolutions, for they shall know I can weary... | |
 | Friends' Historical Society - Society of Friends - 1916 - 410 pages
...King's command." Letter from Hannah Chapman Backhouse, 1841, printed in her Journal and Letters. " My prison shall be my grave before I will budge a...owe my conscience to no mortal man. I have no need for fear. God will make amends for all." — WILLIAM PKNN, in the Tower of London, 1668. Quoted in... | |
 | Isaac Sharpless - Pennsylvania - 1919 - 276 pages
...a matter of conscience, every one of his friends must have felt a thrill of pride as he declared: " My prison shall be my grave before I will budge a jot, for I owe obedience of the conscience to no mortal man." But when he sent out his frantic appeals to Logan to... | |
 | Mary Agnes Best - Quakers - 1925 - 400 pages
...at his imprisonment, in fear of a worse fate. In jail or out, a worse fate seemed not improbable. " Prison shall be my grave before I will budge a jot, for I owe my conscience to no mortal man," was Penn's defiance to the Bishop of London's resolve that the young man " should publicly recant or... | |
 | Leonard Williams Levy - Religion - 1995 - 708 pages
...send a family retainer to see his son in the Tower. "Thou mayest tell my father . . . these words: That my prison shall be my Grave, before I will budge...a Jot; for I owe my Conscience to no Mortal Man." Those brave words were spoken on Christmas Eve, 1668, after less than two weeks in the Tower. Soon... | |
 | Gwenyth Swain - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2003 - 72 pages
...cell, William spoke confidently, "Thou mayst tell my father, whom, I know, will ask thee, these words, that my prison shall be my grave before I will budge a jot." Over the winter, William shivered in the poorly heated room, but his heart was warm and his mind overflowing... | |
 | Carl Reader - Society of Friends - 2005 - 136 pages
...prison. My anger at such presumption flared up. I had an answer. "My prison shall be my grave before I budge a jot, for I owe my conscience to no mortal man." No mortal man could tell me what God wanted for me. Not even an Archbishop could tell me what to believe... | |
 | Juvenile Nonfiction - 2006 - 120 pages
...he could neither write nor receive letters. But Penn wouldn't go back on what he'd said. Penn wrote, "My prison shall be my grave before I will budge a jot; for I owe my conscience to no mortal man." Penn stayed in prison for seven months. He used his time well, writing pamphlets about religious freedom.... | |
 | John William Graham - 468 pages
...Release put a stop to some business: Thou mayest tell my Father, who I know will ask thee, these words: "That my prison shall be my grave, before I will budge...have no need to fear, God will make amends for all: They are mistaken in me; I value not their threats nor resolutions; for they shall know I can weary... | |
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I know will ask thee, these words, that my prison shall be my grave, before I will budge a jot; for I owe my conscience to no mortal man ; I have no need to fear ; God will make amends for all. 
