 What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment, and death itself, in vindication of his own liberty, and, the next moment be deaf to all those motives whose power supported him through his...  The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet it - Page 194by Hinton Rowan Helper - 1857 - 420 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Thomas - Abolitionists - 1835 - 200 pages
...to all those motives whose powers supported " him through his trial, and inflict on his fellow-men a bondage, " one hour of which is fraught with more...ages of that " which he rose in rebellion to oppose ! But we must await with " patience the workings of an overruling Providence, and hope that " he is... | |
 | Julius Rubens Ames - Antislavery movements - 1837 - 716 pages
...deaf to all those motives whose power supported him through his trial, and inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more...ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose. But we must wait with patience the workings of an overruling Providence, and hope that that is preparing... | |
 | Pennsylvania. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1838 - 454 pages
...Washington. He would now refer to some of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Mr. Jefferson says : " What an incomprehensible machine is man !...ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose. " But, we must wait with patience the workings of an over-ruling Providence, and hope that that is... | |
 | Pennsylvania. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1838 - 360 pages
...is man ! who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment, and death itself, in vindication of hi* own liberty, and the next moment be deaf to all those...ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose. "But, we must wait with patience the workings of an over-ruling Providence, and hope that that is preparing;... | |
 | La Roy Sunderland - Antislavery movements - 1839 - 154 pages
...deaf to all those motives whose power supported him through his trial, and inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more...ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose." " But," adds this truly great man, " We must wait with patience the workings of an overruling Providence,... | |
 | 1841 - 986 pages
...deaf to all those motives whose power supported him through his trial, and inflicl on his fellow-men a bondage one hour of which is fraught with more misery...ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose. " But we must await with patience the workings of an over-ruling Providence, and hope that that is... | |
 | Free thought - 1842 - 1124 pages
...deaf to all those motives whose power supported him through his trial, and inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more...ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose ! But we must await, with patience, the workings of an overruling Providence, and hope that that is... | |
 | Slavery - 1843 - 404 pages
...deaf to all those motives whosepower supported him through his trial, and inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more...ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose. But we must wait with patience the workings of an overruling Providence, and hope that that is preparing... | |
 | Friedrich von Raumer - United States - 1846 - 522 pages
...deaf to all those motives whose power supported him through his trial, and inflict on his fellow-men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more...ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose ! But we must await with patience the workings of an * Writings, i. 14. t Jefferson, it is true, owned... | |
 | William Lyon Mackenzie - Canada - 1846 - 332 pages
...deaf to all those motives whose power supported him through his trial, and inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more...ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose." function between them." He [an abolitionist of 50 yean standing] adds his opinion, that if gradual... | |
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