 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
 | Theodore Parker - American literature - 1871 - 602 pages
...deaf to all those motives whose power supported him through his trial, and inflict on his fellow-man 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. I hope that that is preparing... | |
 | Theodore Parker - Theology - 1871 - 256 pages
...deaf to all those motives whose power supported him through his trial, and inflict on his fellow-man 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. I hope that that is preparing... | |
 | William Cothren - Bethlehem (Conn. : Town) - 1872 - 878 pages
...subjection those already in bondage. In view of this execrable system of despotism, Thomas Jefferson says, — '•What an incomprehensible machine is...ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose." In order to secure a full equality, or balance of power, for the handful of slaveholders in the United... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 508 pages
...to all those motives whose power supported hiin through his trial, and inflict upon his fellow-man a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more...ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose I But we must wait with patience the workings of an over-ruling Providence, and hope that that is preparing... | |
 | William Adams - Thanksgiving Day - 1873 - 392 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 misery...ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose ! But we must a*ait with patience the workings of an over-ruling Providence, and hope that that is... | |
 | James Parton - 1878 - 792 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 misery...ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose !" But, then, he throw the burden of delivering the slaves of Virginia upon that convenient resource... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - Massachusetts - 1863 - 548 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 ProviJefferson. dence, and hope that... | |
 | Franklin Benjamin Sanborn - Abolitionists - 1891 - 382 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 ? " " We must wait," he added, " with patience, the workings of the overruling Providence, and hope... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - Presidents - 1894 - 534 pages
...deaf to all those motives whose power supported him thro' 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, & hope that that is preparing... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - Presidents - 1894 - 516 pages
...deaf to all those motives whose power supported him thro' 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, & hope that that is preparing... | |
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