 | 1895 - 1028 páginas
...through weakness, I gave way and wrote it ; but at the executing of it I was so afflicted in my mind that I said, before my master and the Friend, that...practice inconsistent with the Christian religion. This was in 1742. Woolman was then only twenty-two years old. "Whittier says that this event, " simple and... | |
 | John Woolman - 1903 - 362 páginas
...through weakness I gave way, and wrote it ; but at the executing of it I was so afflicted in my mind, that I said before my master and the Friend that I...reflected seriously upon it I thought I should have been * The number of slaves in New Jersey at the commencement of Woolman's labours for emancipation was... | |
 | Charles W. Eliot LLD - 1909 - 426 páginas
...through weakness I gave way, and wrote it; but at the executing of it I was so afflicted in my mind, that I said before my master and the Friend that I...thought I should have been clearer if I had desired to be excused from it, as a thing against my conscience; for such it was. Some time after this a young... | |
 | Carter Godwin Woodson, Rayford Whittingham Logan - 1917 - 508 páginas
...so through weakness I gave way and wrote it ; but at the executing of it I was so afflicted in mind, that I said before my master and the Friend that I...thought I should have been clearer if I had desired to be excused from it, as a thing against my conscience; for such it was." "Journal of John Woolman,"... | |
 | John Woolman - 1922 - 722 páginas
...so through weakness I gave way, and wrote it, but at the Executing it I was so Afflicted in my mind, that I said before my Master and the friend, that...thought I should have been clearer, if I had desired to be Excused from it, as a thing against my conscience, for such it was. [And] some time after this a... | |
 | John Woolman - 1922 - 718 páginas
...so through weakness I gave way, and wrote it. but at the Executing it I was so Afflicted in my mind, that I said before my Master and the friend, that I believed Slavekeepmg to be a practice inconsistent with the Christian Religion : this in some degree abated... | |
 | New Jersey Historical Society - 1924 - 498 páginas
...so great, he tells us "that I said before my master and the Friend" (who was purchasing the slave) "that I believed slave-keeping to be a practice inconsistent with the Christian religion." Sometime later a young man of the Society asked him to write a similar bill of sale for him, but Woolman... | |
 | 1969 - 122 páginas
...do, but, as he wrote in his Journal, "I was so afflicted in my mind that I said before my Master, & the friend, that I believed Slavekeeping to be a practice inconsistent with the Christian Religion." With this Pauline conversion began a life-long effort to convince others. George Dillwyn of Burlington,... | |
 | Douglas Van Steere - 1984 - 354 páginas
...so through weakness I gave way and wrote it, but at the executing it, I was so afflicted in my mind that I said before my master and the Friend that I...thought I should have been clearer if I had desired to be excused from it as a thing against my conscience, for such it was. And some time after this a young... | |
 | Gordon Mursell - 2001 - 400 páginas
...Woolman recalled that I gave way, and wrote it; but at the executing of it I was so afflicted in my mind, that I said before my master and the Friend that I...slave-keeping to be a practice inconsistent with the Christian religion.10 Eventually, Woolman would refuse to write such documents and when writing wills, would... | |
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I was so afflicted in my mind, that I said before my master and the Friend that I believed slave-keeping to be a practice inconsistent with the Christian religion. This, in some degree, abated my uneasiness; yet as often as I reflected seriously upon... 
